Antebellum Reforms: A Women's Rights Movement. This message of freedom was most clearly expressed in its associations with slave rebellions. 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, January 28, 1919 Download image resource Description The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. \text{Employee Payroll Expense}&& 3,000,000\\ (1) The only transaction affecting common or preferred shares during 2013 was the sale of treasury stock. In particular, women played a large role in various aspects of reform. \quad\text{of \$100,000 in 2012 and \$160,000 in 2013)}& 600,000 &500,000\\ No Preference The ideals of the Second Great Awakening played a large role in the development of this reformist impulse. Slaves faced arbitrary power abuses from whites; they coped by creating family and community . Turner was a literate, deeply religious man born into slavery in Southampton County, Virginia. 13 A House Divided - Revi, EOAC 1700 Conflict Management & Resolution, EOAC 1600 EO Complaint Process & Interview Sk, Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Volume, David Twomey, Marianne Jennings, Stephanie Greene, Elliot Aronson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers, Timothy D. Wilson, John David Jackson, Patricia Meglich, Robert Mathis, Sean Valentine. Further reproduction prohibited without . In asylums they receive temporary care and attention. \text{Income Taxes Payable}& 430,000 &300,000\\ "In the history of the world," Ralph Waldo Emerson declared in 1841, "the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour." Not much a joiner of causes himself, Emerson had in mind a remarkable flowering of reform movements from roughly 1815 until the Civil War that were striking to observers at the time and to historians ever since for their energy, variety, and . Some of this came from a lack of understanding; in other cases, it was overt prejudice. \quad\text{Total Long-Term Debt}& \$ 5,000,000&\$ 6,000,000\\ The most prominent of these education reformers was Horace Mann, head of the Massachusetts board of education, the first in the nation. However, the modern-day Seventh Day Adventist Church later grew out of the Millerite movement. An important example of the abolitionist voice in the South came from sisters from Charleston, South Carolina who had migrated north and become Quakers because of their abolitionism. At the same time, the Second Great Awaking stressed the notion of personal responsibility and the responsibility of a person to the sins of neighbors. Many Americans found this radical notion of racial equality and the call to end these restrictive laws intimidating or even frightening. Required Chief among these physicians was Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania. Determined to make abolitionism a political movement, the seceders formed the Liberty Party, which nominated James G. Birney as its candidate for president. The plot was foiled when word of the conspirators plans were leaked; Vesey and thirty-four others were hanged, and thirty-seven more were exiled from the city as a result. By 1850, about 3.2 million slaves labored in the United States, 1.8 million of whom worked in the cotton fields. Legal. \text{Accounts Receivable (Net of Estimated Uncollectibles}\\ The Mayflower carried barrels upon barrels of beer for its passengers. Dix was instrumental in motivating a state role in the creation of these facilities. In the early decades of the century, several groups emerged as colonizationists. These groups sought to remove blacks from the United States either through emigration or through the creation of colonies in Africa. All over the country, African Americans joined the Baptist, Methodist, and other churches, in part as a response to the message of spiritual equality. The Second Great Awakening began in the 1790s and, by the 1820s, had emerged as a major religious movement. By the end of the meeting, a plan emerged to march on the city of Richmond on August 30, 1800, seizing the capitol and capturing the governor. Its roots lay in the revivals of the Second Great Awakening, where religious reformers called for individuals to lead clean lives and to redeem their sinning neighbors. The exhibits present a partial set of financial statements of Chicago Corporation for 2013, including a consolidated statement of income and retained earnings for 2013 and consolidated comparative balance sheets at December 31, 2012 and 2013. In 1822 , a former slave named Denmark Vesey planned to lead eighty slaves in a revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. The amendment was passed after years of efforts by temperance societies throughout the country. Revivalist preachers traveled on horseback, sharing the message of spiritual and moral renewal to as many as possible. The meetings typically lasted three to five days and were meant to reawaken or revive ones religious faith through an intense, emotional experience. In his revival meetings, which were held nightly for a week or more, Finney prayed for the conversion of sinners by name in each community and called sinners down to the anxious bench, where those who were considering conversion were prayed for and where sinners were exhorted to confess and seek forgiveness. Hudson River school of art: Americans painters also sought to achieve a sense of nationality in art. What were the aims of prisons, asylums, and other institutions in this period of social State colonization movements emerged as well, leading to the establishments of African colonies such as the Republic of Maryland and Mississippi in Africa. Seneca Falls Convention, 1848. \text{General Corporate Expenses} &&420,000\\ Ministers such as Connecticut Presbyterian Lyman Beecher also spoke out against alcohol as a societal evil. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. \quad\text{of Leased Property Rights}&& 1,000,000 He planned his revivals in great detail as a kind of popular spectacle as well as an event that inspired religious reform. - moral suasion through speeches and literature. Over the course of two days, the delegates discussed the role of women in society and debated the issue of womens right to vote. The early message also empowered African Americans, free and enslaved. Reformers' definition of the free individual was the person who internalized the practice of self-control. \text{Capitalized Lease Obligation}& 1,020,000& 1,100,000\\ Consolidated Balance Sheets This movement, called the Restoration Movement, had two main centers: Kentucky and Pennsylvania/Western Virginia. These communities differed greatly in structure and motivation. \text{Advances from Customers}& 640,000 &660,000\\ Reformers argued that education prepares youth for social and civic duties as adults. The antebellum reform movements came soon after the market revolution. Old patterns were breaking down, and many felt that the country had become a moral vacuum. Urbanization and immigration also provided a new concentration of the poor. 13 A House Divided - Revi, DepreciationofPlantandEquipmentandAmortization, BasicEarningsperCommonShare(Basedon1,600,000, DilutedEarningsperShare(AssumingConversionof, AccountsReceivable(NetofEstimatedUncollectibles, of$100,000in2012and$160,000in2013), LessAccumulatedDepreciationandAmortization, TotalLiabilitiesandShareholdersEquity, Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, John David Jackson, Patricia Meglich, Robert Mathis, Sean Valentine, Information Technology Project Management: Providing Measurable Organizational Value, Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Volume, David Twomey, Marianne Jennings, Stephanie Greene, Bible Survey- Final EXAM !!!! Antebellum culture in America reflected the growing sectional crisis, at times seeking to pave over sectional differences and at other times making light of them. Some, like Garrison, favored fiery calls and no moderation; at a rally in 1854, Garrison asserted that there could be no union with slaveholders and called the U.S. Constitution as the document that perpetuated slavery a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell. Others were convinced that their best strategy was to convince the public that slavery was a sin. Her body, her possessions (Except personal items), her children. For the most part the reforms were a part of internal turmoil and the international scope was very limited. Education would "equalize the conditions of men.". The new Protestant denominations, most prominently the Baptists and Methodists, grew in strength and numbers. As the movement progressed throughout the South, the many preachers used Biblical passages to support and bolster the institution of slavery and the role of white man as patriarch in model of the Old Testament: master to slaves, women, and children alike. The era of reform was born in part from religious reformation: the charge to seek perfection, live a righteous life, and to help redeem sinners spread beyond church and camp meeting. Although black and white abolitionists worked closely together in the movement and usually worked well together, African Americans experienced racial prejudice even within the abolitionist movement. Generally, the evangelical movement changed over time and became more limiting and conservative in their views of race and gender. \quad\text{Total Investments}& \$ 5,200,000 &\$ 3,200,000\\ Book: United States History to 1877 (Locks et al. \text{Net Income}&& \$ 4,400,000\\ In the South, the movement became more conservative over time, and generally supported the system of slavery. The experiment in Liberia proved to be, in many ways, a failure; hundreds died from disease soon after emigrating. The abolitionist sentiment was also present in the South. Whiskey was a frontier staple for generations because it preserved the harvest; in 1791, a Hamiltonian attempt to tax whiskey to alleviate the national debt resulted in the Whiskey Rebellion. It declared that all men and women are created equal, and went on to list the repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward women, including that He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice, and He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. The Declaration of Sentiments formed the basis of the goals of the womens rights movement that lasted throughout the rest of the century. The Second Great Awakening swept through most of the country, but it took differing forms in the North and the South. Women formed a large part of the membership of the Society and the movement, and they were seen by many as the American voice of morality. Moreover, black congregations could not hold religious meetings without a licensed white minister present, presumably to assure that the right messages on slavery and freedom were the only ones presented from the pulpit. \quad\text{Total}& \$14,000,000 &\$13,200,000\\ \text{Patent}& \$ 750,000 &\$ 875,000\\ The Second Great Awakening and the movement in religious revival in the United States had a profound impact on the United States. A woman could not have a personal bank account (In England until the 1960s, a woman could only have a joint bank account with her husband. The increasing urbanization of the United States and the large numbers of immigrants, especially Germans, had transformed the nation in ways that were unfamiliar and that some found threatening. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. The earliest womens colleges were founded in the 1830s: the Georgia Female College in Macon, Georgia (now Wesleyan College), founded in 1836, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts (Now Mount Holyoke College), founded in 1837. \text{Basic Earnings per Common Share (Based on 1,600,000} \\ The LibreTexts libraries arePowered by NICE CXone Expertand are supported by the Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project, the UC Davis Office of the Provost, the UC Davis Library, the California State University Affordable Learning Solutions Program, and Merlot. Women joined and actively participated in abolitionist organizations such as the Anti-Slavery Society; they sponsored events such as the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. Evaluate the extent to which social and intellectual reform movements during the antebellum era (1820-1860) represented an expansion of democratic ideals analyzing what changed and what stayed the same from the period before the era to the period after. The first and foremost of these goals was achieving the right to vote as an inalienable right of full, republican citizenship. In the decades prior to the Civil War, reformers in the U.S. looked to Europe for models of social and political change. \text{Deferred Tax Liability} &\$ 1,570,000 &\$ 1,400,000\\ Angelina later married Theodore Dwight Weld, a prominent abolitionist preacher. Antebellum culture in America reflected the growing sectional crisis, at times seeking to pave over sectional differences and at other times making light of them. In the north, the movement reached its zenith in the Burned-Over District of Charles Finney. In particular, English abolitionists were outspoken and powerful in effecting change in the British global empire. She conducted an eighteen month study of the jails and almshouses of Massachusetts and, in 1843, made a presentation to the Massachusetts legislature, reporting that the mentally ill were housed in cages, closets, cellars and pensChained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. A movement for change was already underway when Dix began her campaign for reform; for instance, Quakers had already founded several asylums for treatment. Transcendentalism's roots were in American Christianity. Saw both individuals and society at large as capable of indefinite improvement. The abolitionist emblem - a portrait of a slave in chains coupled with the motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" According to many antebellum reformers, intemperance (drunkenness) stood as the most troubling problem in the United States, one that eroded morality, Christianity, and played a starring role in corrupting American democracy. (2) The bonds payable have a maturity (face) value of $4 million. Many mentally ill individuals eventually ended up imprisoned as well, as no facilities for the treatment of the mentally ill existed. Mainly, it had drastically weakened the ties that bound . Additional information is as follows: Many people, accustomed to thinking of salvation as being determined by God alone, found the possibility of playing an active role in determining their religious fate exhilarating. Mobs disrupted abolitionist meetings in northern cities. \text{Chicago Finance Corporation (40\\\% Owned)}& \$ 4,000,000 &\$ 2,200,000\\ The antebellum women participated in the public sphere with their own groups that they made themselves after being excluded from government and politics. The difference were common school and institution was open to all children and were getting educated, a free training for individuals. The African Methodist Episcopal Church where Vesey preached was destroyed. During the 1830s and 1840s, Americans embarked on a program of institution building - jails for criminals, poorhouses for the destitute, asylums for the insane, and orphanages for children without families. Kentucky Congressional representative Henry Clay argued for colonization because of the unconquerable prejudice against blacks in the United States. Reformers worked to create public institutions to deal with the social problems. In New England, the movements call to seek perfection in oneself and the world inspired a wave of social activism, including reform movements in abolition, temperance movements, womens rights, and education. Many different kinds of Americans worked in the reform movement. One means of teaching these values was through the series McGuffeys Readers, a series of texts that taught not only spelling and vocabulary, but also punctuality, frugality, and temperance. 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Antebellum reform was international in scope . \textbf{Current Assets}\\ A Pew Research Center survey asked respondents if they would rather live in a place with a slower pace of life or a place with a faster pace of life. Named after Thomas More's sixteenth-century novel Utopia, an outline of a perfect society. The response to these conditions was the 1826 creation of the American Temperance Society in Boston, Massachusetts. The Unitarian movement spread through many of the Congregationalist churches of the area. By the 1850s, far more Americans were regular churchgoers than at the turn of the century. In the early nineteenth century, a succession of religious revivals collectively known as the Second Great Awakening remade the nation's religious landscape. \quad\text{Preferred Stock)}&& \$ 2.20\\ In 1836, when abolitionists began to flood Washington with petitions calling for emancipation in the nation's capital, the House of Representatives adopted the notorious "gag rule," which prohibited their consideration. In late August of 1831, Turner and his followers launched the rebellion. Much of this perception stems from the Cult of Domesticity. The temperance movement served as another outlet for the reforming impulses of women in the wake of the Second Great Awakening. In the spring of 1841, Dix visited a Cambridge jail in order to teach Sunday school for a group of women inmates. Baptists and Methodists preached that all could achieve salvation and that all people were equal before God. The most significant success was that by 1860, more than a dozen states had granted women greater control over the wages they earned, and some even allowed women to sue husbands and fathers who tried to deprive them of their wages. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. \text{Goodwill}& 1,125,000& 1,125,000\\ Although neither group saw their causes ultimate goals achieved during the era of reform, each movement saw great advances. Today, the influence of the Restoration Movement is seen in the Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ churches. Two of the leading figures of the womens rights movement met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The movement experienced what became to be known as the Great Disappointment when the morning of October 23 arrived rather than Jesus. \text{Income TaxesCurrent}&& 1,430,000\\ Additionally, some of the conspirators were recruited at the Hungary Baptist Meeting House, the church Gabriel and his brothers attended. \textbf{Shareholders Equity}\\ Give Me Liberty! ) Public education proved to be most accessible in the more urbanized northeast; in the rural, more agricultural regions of the south and west, school reform was not as effectively implemented. A decade later, Nat Turner used the message of the Second Great Awakening to help incite one of the largest slave rebellions in United States history. TEMPERANCE. His many autobiographies, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, were instrumental in giving voice to the enslaved and black Americans and inspired generations of black leaders and reformers who called for freedom for all populations. The driving force behind the Latter Day Saint movement was its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr. They worked tirelessly to promote the ideals of liberty, equality, and justice for all. However, there were limits to spiritual equality; although all were spiritually equal in the eyes of God, for many believers, African Americans and women were still inferior to white men in all other ways. Why? Through these moral reform societies, churches hoped to change society by putting individuals on the path to righteousness. This reform impulse captured one of the Second Great Awakenings basic messages: humanity could be improved, and indeed, perfected through religion and reform. If they openly challenged the institution of slavery, slave owners would not allow their slaves to attend revival meetings or to hear the message. 0.080.080.08 Kelly later wrote of her experiences in the abolitionist movement and how they shaped her views on womens rights: in striving to strike [the slaves] irons off, we found most surely that we were manacled ourselves.. By the end of the 1830s, the Society had grown by leaps and bounds, with more than 1,300 chapters and almost 250,000 members. Like the preachers of the revivals, the temperance movement reformers called for individuals to lead clean lives and to redeem their sinning neighbors. When one of the conspirators proved hesitant to rebellion, Gabriel called on his brother to speak at a meeting of the conspirators to encourage them to action: outright rebellion. Because it was generally inclusive of everyone, the message was spread to men and women, to rich and poor, and among slaves and free blacks alike. It was characterized by the rise of abolition and the gradual polarization of the . December 31 b. There are two main strands of literature on the antislavery origins of the sectional crisis. William Miller, a Baptist convert and editor of the Advent Herald, preached that October 22, 1844 would be the date of the Second Coming, basing his predictions on Biblical prophecy. \text{Merchandise Inventory}& 1,800,000& 1,500,000\\ In the aftermath of the rebellion, the panicky white population killed more than one hundred black men, free and slave. \quad\text{Total Liabilities and Shareholders Equity}& \$20,000,000 &\$17,000,000\\ For example, Virginia passed legislation making it illegal to teach slaves, free blacks, or mulattoes to read or write. \end{array} Give Me Liberty Ch. Simultaneously, the slaves, women, and children were told that obedience to their master was their Christian duty. Took differing forms in the wake of the century, several groups emerged as colonizationists for and! 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