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Why do so many people dislike immigrants?
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German Immigrants
• The Germans were the second largest group to come to America in the mid 1800’s– Escaping violence
• Many with money to buy land and begin farming– Ohio and Pennsylvania
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Irish Immigrants
• After the potato famine that started in 1845 many Irish came to America
• No money• Unskilled laborers and servants– Factories and railroad
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Nativism
• Increasing hostility towards foreigners• Many were anti-Catholic • Irish Need Not Apply• Women’s wages
• Know Nothings– Nativist Political Party
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Second Great Awakening
• Protestant revival• Started in KY and spread nationwide• Camp meetings– Huge rallies (Like Woodstock)
• Rejected the Calvinist view of predestination
• Leads to national reforms
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Utopian Communities
• Try to create perfect world
• New Harmony Indiana
• Oneida NY
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Mormons
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The Transcendentalists
• Philosophers who believed that the most important truths of life go beyond human understanding
• Prized self-reliance & the questioning of authority-
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CHAPTER 6 SECTION 3
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The Major Reform Movements
• The Temperance Movement • Public Education• Abolition / Anti-slavery
• Inspired by Second Great Awakening
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American Temperance Society
• Urged people to pledge not to drink • Est. alcohol-free hotels & Boat lines• Urged employers to require their workers to
sign anti-drinking pledges• Between the 1830’s & the 1860’s alcohol
consumption dropped dramatically– High of 7.1 gallons in 1830– Low of 1.8 gallons in 1860-– 2011 it was 2.3 gallons
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Dorothea Dix
• Visited a prison and was unhappy with the conditions– Mentally ill especially
• Use more humane methods
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Education Reform
• Horace Mann – Father of Public Education• Created the first State Board of Education 1837– Doubles teachers salaries– Opened 50 schools– Opened teacher colleges
• 1852 mandatory school attendance MA
• Bigger in north than south
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Seneca Falls Convention
• New York• 1848, Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Voting rights
• First organized women’s rights movement
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CHAPTER 6 SECTION 4
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Abolition Movement
• Gradualism was a plan to end slavery one piece at a time
• Colonization was the shipping of slaves back to AfricaDec. 1816 the American Colonization Society
wanted to send people to Liberia
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Colonization
• 1822, many abolitionists called for sending the slaves to Western Africa– Liberia
• By 1831, only about 1,400 freed men had gone to Liberia
• Many of the freed slaves were against being sent back to Africa
• Liberia currently 64% in poverty
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Radical Abolition• By 1829, there were
around 50 anti-slavery group that were formed by blacks
• David Walker was a freed man– wrote an essay on the
rights of blacks • America was for blacks as
well as whites
– Died on the streets of Boston
– “Somebody must die in this cause”
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William Lloyd Garrison
• 1831, began publishing The Liberator
• Anti-slavery newspaper
• 1833, he founded the American Anti-Slavery Society-
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William Lloyd Garrison
• Nearly killed in the streets of Boston in 1835
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Fredrick Douglas
• Runaway slave • Settled in New
Bedford Massachusetts
• 1847, established the Northern Star Newspaper-
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Sojourner Truth
• Slave from New York– Freed when the state banned slavery 1827
• Deeply religious – Played on peoples morals– Was light hearted when presenting
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Elijah Lovejoy
• Abolitionist from Maine moved to St. Louis• Published anti-slavery newspaper– Printing press destroyed
• Forced to move to Alton IL– Two more presses destroyed– Orders fourth
• Killed by mob
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Reaction to Abolitionism
• North fears war with south– Competition with slave labor– Wants southern economy intact (textiles)
• South feels slavery is necessary– View abolitionist papers as the cause of slave
revolts (Nat Turner)– 1836 Southerners suppress abolitionist papers
through congress with “gag rule”