Evaluate the importance of the Second Great Awakening to the reforms of the 19th century.
Would the reform movements of this period (Ex: prison reform, education reform, Temperance Movement, abolition, and women’s rights) have progressed as they did without the influence of the Second Great Awakening and religion?
How are the 19th-century reforms related to each other?
Spike, T., Mergel, S., Locks, C., & Roseman, P. (2013). History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877. Merlot. [online]
- Chapter 13: Antebellum Revival and Reform (Links to an external site.)
Primary Source Documents:
- Douglass, F., & Stepto, R. B. (2009). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. (Links to an external site.) Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.Dix, D. (2006). I Tell What I Have Seen —The reports of asylum reformer Dorothea Dix (Links to an external site.). American Journal of Public Health, 96(4), 622-624.Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (Links to an external site.) & “Solitude of Self” (Links to an external site.) by E. C. Stanton
Articles & Websites:
- Hogan, L. (2008). A time for silence: William Lloyd Garrison and the “Woman Question” at the 1840 world anti-slavery convention (Links to an external site.). Gender Issues, 25(2), 63-79.