NORTHERN CULTURECH 11

Women’s Rights Political Cartoon, 1848

Key Terms

Industrial Revolution Second Industrial Revolution immigrants / nativists middle class voting rights expansion separate spheres / cult of

domesticity factories / Lowell, Massachusetts deskilling / artisan * Second Great Awakening evangelical Protestantism Society of Friends (Quakers) Unitarians / Universalists Church of Latter-Day Saints

(Mormons) Joseph Smith / Brigham Young Utopian societies (know 3

examples)

Beecher family (Lyman, Catherine, Harriet)

temperance movement transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau / Civil Disobedience American Anti-Slavery Society William Lloyd Garrison World Anti-Slavery Convention, London Sarah and Angelina Grimke Maria Stewart (“Am I not a woman?”) Frederick Douglass 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, New York Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Lucretia Mott Abby Kelly Margaret Fuller / Woman in the

Nineteenth Century *

Questions to Consider

What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on attitudes toward slavery? How did this religious awakening lead to a great call for abolishing slavery?

What role did women play in the social reform movements of the Second Industrial Revolution? How did their participation in activism open up a dialogue about gender and race in the North? To what extent were the fates of white women and African-Americans connected?

If You’re Curious . . .

Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Abolition and Women’s Rights by Gerda Lerner

Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke 1822-1844 edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond