SOCIAL REFORM

PREDESTINATION

CHARLES FINNEY

• Charles Finney held the religious revivals
• Before they knew it finney and his preachers were conducting revivals across the nation
• A quote from Charles finney “all sorts of abandoned characters are awakened and converted ”
• Another quote from Charles finney “The worst part of human society is softened and reclaimed and made to appear as a lovely specimen of the beauty of holiness”
• Leader of the second great awakening

REVIVALS

TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

PROHIBITION

DOROTHEA DIX

• Dorothea Dix she helped the mentally ill with treatments and hospitals
• Dorothea Dix was also a social reformer
• Dorothea Dix helped the prison system too

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

HORACE MANN

• Horace Mann gave the Idea of education reformation
• Mann also tried to improve public school system's
• Horace Mann also gave an example to other states about education reforming

ABOLITIONISTS

WILLIAM LOYD GARISSON

• William was qUaker who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to end slavery
• William also started a newspaper called the liberator
• William also help find the anti-slavery society

FREDRICK DOUGLASS

• He was a former slave
• He was an abolitionist
• He also founded the North Star which was an abolitionist newspaper
• He escaped slavery and debated about slavery

HARRIET TUBMAN

• She was an American abolishinist
• She was the Moses of her peoplej
• She escaped slavery and went back to save her people

SJOURNER TRUTH

• She ba came a speaker for abolishinst
• She also helped the women's suffarage movment

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

• Women's suffrage leader
• She organized the Seneca falls convention with Lucretia mott
• And launched the women's suffrage MOVMENT

LUCRETIA MOTT

• Lucretia Mott American reformer
• She planned the specs falls convention with Elizabeth cady Stanton
• And organized meetings for women's suffrage rights

WOMENS SUFFERAGE

WOMENS RIGHTS MOVMENT

SUSAN B.ANTHONY

• Supported the women's suffrage movment
• And was unmarried
• She supported women's suffrage because she thought women should get paid the same as men

TRANSCENDENTAL

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

• Emerson had popular speeches and essays he asked Americans to question the value materials goods
• “Civilization might provide wealth,he said,but nature reflected higher values that came from god

INDIVIDUALISM

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

• Thoreau took two year meditating in the woods at walden pond
• Thoreau like Emerson he thought that individuals must judge what's wrong and right
• Thoreau went to jail for not paying taxes he spent two nights in jail

Civil disobedience

The idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their concise demand it

HERMAN MELVILLE

• Began to change the tone of American literature with nathinel Hawthorne
• Melville wrote a novel called Moby-dick
• Herman and Nathaniel were fascinated by psychology and extreme emotions

NATHANIEL HAWTHRONE

• Helped change the tone of American literature with Herman Melville
• Hawthorne was descended from the puritans of Massachusetts

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

• Alcott published a book called little women
• Presented A gentler view of England life
• The novel talks about Alcott experience in england