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Section 1: America’s Spiritual Awakening
Section 2: Immigrants and Cities
Section 3: Reforming Society
Section 4: The Movement to End Slavery
Section 5: Women’s Rights
CHAPTER 15
New Movements in America
SECTION 1America’s Spiritual Awakening
Question:Who were the key people and what were the key ideas of the American romantic movement?
Definition of Romantic Movement
Influential Ideas
Focus of Work
Artists and Writers
SECTION 1America’s Spiritual Awakening
artistic movement that developed out of the movement in Europe, in which American painters and writers believed in bringing a simpler, more individual point of view to their works
romantic movement in Europe, spirituality, the simple life, nature, individual’s uniqueness
landscape, nature, history, slavery, American individualism and democracy
Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman
SECTION 2
Immigrants and Cities
Question:What were the problems and benefits of growing U.S. cities in the mid-1800s?
SECTION 2
Immigrants and Cities
Growth of U.S. Cities
Problems Benefits
• overcrowding• poorly built housing• poor sanitation• no permanent fire or police
force• diseases and epidemics• lack of public services
• job opportunities• growth of middle class• entertainment and cultural
life
SECTION 3
Reforming Society
Question:What were the causes and effects of the American temperance movement?
SECTION 3
Reforming Society
The Temperance MovementThe Temperance Movement
Cause: belief that alcohol abuse led to social problems, such as family violence, poverty, and criminal behavior
Cause: prevention of alcohol abuse
Cause: worry over the effects of alcohol
Effects:
Maine and 12 other states passed laws making the sale of alcohol illegal
SECTION 4
The Movement to End Slavery
Question:By what methods did abolitionists and supporters of slavery spread their messages?
SECTION 4
The Movement to End Slavery
Spreading the Message
Working to End Slavery Working to Keep Slavery
• speaking tours and lectures• newspapers• pamphlets and essays• poetry, plays, and slave
narratives• abolitionist societies• essays• petitions to Congress
• newspaper editorials• political speeches• threats to abolitionists• federal laws
SECTION 5
Women’s Rights
Question:What were the goals of the women’s rights movement and how did they hope to achieve these goals?
SECTION 5
Women’s Rights
Women’sRights
gain the right to vote
gain the right to sit on juries
take advantage of better educational
opportunities
married women get the right to control
their own property
getting mento take part in
the fight
organizingmore
effectively
Chapter Wrap-Up
CHAPTER 15
1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect reform movements of the mid-1800s?
2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840 and 1860 affect the economy?
3. Choose three of the following people and explain how they worked to end slavery: Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.
1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect reform movements of the mid-1800s?
2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840 and 1860 affect the economy?
3. Choose three of the following people and explain how they worked to end slavery: Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.