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American Society during the Era of Good Feeling

OBJECTIVES

1. Identify one transcendentalist and give a detail about them.

2. Identify two details about education reform in the early-mid 1800s.

3. Outline the Abolition vs. Pro-Slavery argument.

4. Identify three details about the Women’s Rights Movement.

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American Society during the Era of Good Feeling(Religion)

The Second Great Awakening

Staged revivals,sometimes

lasting 5 days

Membership in Churchesincreased

African Americansformed their own churches

Rejected Calvinism and Predetermination(salvation/damnation)

Unitarianism:Believed individual and social reform

are important

ReligiousRevival

American Society during the Era of Good Feeling(Reform)

Transcendentalism Henry DavidThoreau

Ralph WaldoEmerson

Wrote “Walden”

Believed in Civil Disobedience

Believed Truth is found in Nature

Emphasized living a simple life

Emerson Thoreau

American Society during the Era of Good Feeling(Social Reform)

In the mid-19th Century (1800s), Dorothea Dix advocated reform for mentally ill people. She wrote a report for the Massachusetts Legislature & convinced 9 Southern States to improve

conditions in mental institutions. Education was another area in need of reform…

EDUCATIONMassachusetts Pennsylvania

1837 – Horace Mann becomes the 1st Secretary

of Education

Established teacher training programs and

curriculum reform

1834 – Established a school system that is supported by taxes

Within 3 years, 42% of school aged children were

attending

American Society during the Era of Good Feeling(Slavery & Abolition)

By the 1820’s, more and more reform-minded people were advocating for abolition of slavery. Charles Finney, a revivalist preacher from Rochester, called slavery “a great national sin”.

Pro-Abolition- William Lloyd Garrison (white man)

started a newspaper called The Liberator- Anti-slavery associations are created- Frederick Douglass (black man) escaped

slavery, was well spoken and well written

Pro-Slavery- Stated the slavery benefited the black- Stated blacks were happy with the

conditions- Said the black slave system was better

than the wage system of the North

The Debates raged. Abolitionists pushed for immediate emancipation. Pro-slavery advocates secured a gag rule (limiting the amount of time Congress could have debates over the issue).

Violence would erupt in places. Slaves would revolt and retaliate against slave holders.

American Society during the Era of Good Feeling(Women & Reform)

Women’s ReformMovement

TemperanceMany wanted to prohibit drinking1826 – the American Temperance Society was created

EducationFor girls, not important. One of the first women’s schools opened in 1821. Black women faced greater challenges.

Seneca Falls ConventionNearly 300 people gathered to advocate for women’s rights. Women should participate in public life.

AbolitionAppealed to the Christian ideals to condemn slavery

Sojourner Truth- Black women- Abolitionist- Traveled Extensively