The Second Great Awakening
What revolution contributed to the start of the Second Great Awakening?
The Market Revolution
What is temperance?
It was a reform movement to reduce or ban alcohol consumption
What were crude jails replaced by that was a large failure?
Penitentiaries
Describe the cult of domesticity
The idealized view of women as moral leaders in the home while the men work
What was a radical abolitionist like?
Demanded immediate abolition without compensation to owners, some believed in reparations to those enslaved
Timothy Dwight
Immigrants from which two countries largely opposed temperance?
The Irish and Germans
Free pubic school for children of all social classes
Describe the Seneca Falls Convention
The leading feminists met in NY, came up with their on Declaration of Independence, and were motivated to continue to press for female equality
The idea pf transporting those people freed from slavery to an African colony was first tried with the founding of this society. They established a settlement in Liberia. African Americans didn't want to leave.
How did Charles Grandison Finney appeal to people in his sermons? (looking for 2 answers)
He appealed to their emotions and fear of damnation
What overshadowed the temperance movement?
The abolition movement
Describe the new colleges
The religious enthusiasm of the Second GReat Awakening helped fuel the growth of private colleges. Protestant denominations founded small denominational colleges
Why did people begin to have less kids?
Industrialization reduced the economic value of a child
Describe the Liberty Party
The party's one campaign pledge was to bring about an end to slavery by political and legal means
Utah
Why did factory and business owners support the temperance movement?
It produced more productive workers
Describe why people advocated for free public education
They feared a growing number of uneducated poor people
What was the name of the Declaration made at the Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration of Sentiments
What was The North Star?
An antislavery journal started by Frederick Douglas
Where was Joseph Smith from
The "burned-over district" in New York
Name one temperance group
American Temperance Society, the Washingtonians, or the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Mount Holyoke College, Oberlin College
Describe how the crisis over slavery overshadowed the women's movement
People were more concerned about the potential breaking up of the union than giving women more rights, so they were put to the side
Describe the importance of Frederick Douglas