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Section 5
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Second Great Awakening
1790s-1830s
 Widespread Christian movement to revive religious
faith
 Chief forum were revival meetings
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Unitarians
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Religious group that shared with revivalism a faith in
the individual but instead of appealing to emotion
Unitarians emphasized reason as path to perfection
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Transcendentalism
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New religion based on emotion & nature.
 American
Colonization Society –
 William Lloyd Garrison – imd emancipation
 The Liberator
 Frederick Douglass
 The North Star
 Garrison and Douglass disagreed over violence
 Nat Turner Rebellion 1831
 Impact of Turner Rebellion on slave population
 Proslavery advocates – Bible
 Leaders of abolition movement were women
 Women
were denied full participation in the
community
 Women participated in many reform
movements such as :
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Temperance
Education – Mary Lyon, Emma Willard
Improving Mental Health facilities - Dix
Women’s health - Blackwell
Abolitionism and
Women’s Rights, etc.
 Women
were discriminated against when
addressing World’s Anti-slavery Convention
 Decided to reform their status.
 Seneca Falls Convention 1848
 Demanded suffrage
 Began convention with revised version of DOI
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Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth p. 149
 Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
 Frederick Douglass
 Nat Turner
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 Women
and Reform
Temperance
 Education
 Health
 Seneca Falls – DOI
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Susan B. Anthony
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Political Spectrum
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