What is the best way to describe the relationship between the Second Great Awakening and the Abolitionist movement?
Second Great Awakening served as the moral and organizational engine for the Abolitionist movement.
While the 1776 original famously claimed, "all men are created equal," what 1848 document edited that line to read, "all men and women are created equal."
Declaration of Sentiments
This abolitionist used his newspaper, The Liberator, to practice "moral suasion," arguing that slavery was a national sin and demanding its immediate, not gradual, end.
William Lloyd Garrison
"How did the religious goal of moral perfection change the Temperance movement's tactics and goals?"
Perfectionism drove the Temperance movement by shifting its strategy from "moderation" to teetotalism (total abstinence)
What 1848 gathering in New York produced the "Declaration of Sentiments," which used the language of the Declaration of Independence to argue that "all men and women are created equal."
Seneca Falls Convention
Published in 1820, Elihu Embree’s the Emancipator held what unique geographic distinction within the early abolitionist movement.
being published in a slave state (or the South)
This theological concept, which replaced strict predestination, suggested that individuals have the "free agency" to choose their own salvation.
Free will
In 1872, this activist was arrested and fined $100 for "illegal voting," a fine she famously refused to pay for the rest of her life.
Susan B. Anthony
Unlike William Lloyd Garrison’s "moral suasion" through newspapers, what woman practiced "direct action" by personally leading nineteen rescue missions into the South.
Harriet Tubman
This "perfectionist" social movement sought to eliminate the "national sin" of alcohol consumption to protect the home and improve worker discipline.
Temperance Movement
At an 1851 convention in Akron, Ohio, this former enslaved woman and abolitionist delivered a powerful speech highlighting the intersection of racial and gender oppression.
Sojourner Truth
Who was the formerly enslaved man that wrote a best-selling autobiography and published The North Star, named for the celestial guide used by those escaping to the North.
Frederick Douglass