APUSH Era of Reform Assignment By Jacky Cheung Period 3 1/20/15 APUSH Era of Reform Assignment ● Explain what was the 2nd Great Awakening‚ and then explain the impact this movement had on the era of reform. ○ The 2nd Great Awakening was the second religious revival movement of the United States but this time instead of inciting fear into the hearts of the people to convert men and women into Christianity‚ a new idea was thought up and many people were attracted to it. The doing of good‚ aiding
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14‚ 1811 – July 1‚ 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play‚ and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North‚ while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books‚ including novels‚ three travel memoirs‚ and collections
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In his Biography of a Nation of Joiners (1944)‚ Arthur M. Schlesinger concluded that the drive to associate was an inherent and natural American attribute. His study traced the emergence of fraternal orders since the colonial period and contextualised their development towards the present day. Arguably however‚ many of the colonial associations witnessed neither nationwide membership nor did they show characteristics attributable to‚ or elementary of‚ civil society. For instance Schlesinger sources
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In the article Catharine Beecher and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Architects of female power‚ Valerie Gill compares the beliefs of both Charlotte Gilman and her great-aunt Catharine Beecher. One of‚ if not the most important‚ factor of this article that the reader sees repeatedly is the environment in which the american woman tenants should be the center of all their commerce. This process continued to establish the idea that what initiates in the woman’s home will continue to emit throughout the lives
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Dorothea Dix made life for the mentally ill grand compared to how it was before she took interest in their health and well being. Dorothea Dix was the first American to take interest in how the mentally ill were treated and spoke out about it. Dorothea Dix was a woman making a change in a time where woman were still not equal to men. She was one of the few women who spoke out against something during her time period. Dorothea Dix was the start of the interest in the human brain and its defects. If
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to observe‚ ponder‚ and draw one’s own conclusions unaffected from other situations‚ whether what one thinks is aligned with the law of the land or not. Such unrestrained thinking was especially hard to apply for people during the time of Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ when the slavery issue prevalent in America. Then there is freedom of action—the ability to act and do whatever one desires. These two elements of freedom are interconnected‚ as freedom of thought influences the how an individual uses his/her
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a powerful judge in the south on a plantation ran by slaves‚ ironically Sarah Moore Grimke would begin to disagree with the politics in her surroundings. Furthermore‚ she would grow up to experience oppression based on her gender‚ and also view the unjust discrimination against people of color. Despite being born on a very successful plantation operated by slaves in Charleston South Carolina ‚ Sarah Moore Grimké developed an opposition of slavery and the oppression of women through experiencing first
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that were domestic‚ and even teaching. Teaching became a women’s career since many men left the profession and mostly women were taking a hold of it. There were also some women’s magazines being published that were written by women such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Margaret Fuller. But again the role had not exactly changed 100 percent. Most of the single women that had been working left their jobs when they would marry. The man was still the supporter of the house so women’s economic role changed
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DBQ Project Final Draft Women in the late 1700s had practically no rights. In 18th century America‚ the men represented the family. Women couldn’t do practically anything without consulting their fathers‚ or if they were married‚ their husbands. Then‚ in the early 19th century‚ Republican Motherhood began to take a stronger place in American society. Republican Motherhood reinforced the idea that women‚ in their domestic sphere‚ were much separate from the public world of men‚ but also encouraged
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Annika Czizik Critical Lens von Schiller 4B 9/14/14 Henry Ward Beecher was quite wise in saying that‚ “Greatness lies‚ not in being strong‚ but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own”. In other words‚ in order to be great‚ you do not need to be powerful; you just need to know how to use your power appropriately
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