Soon after, the movement disintegrated. \text{Convertible Preferred Stock}& \$ 2,000,000 &\$ 2,000,000\\ Three hundred delegates, both men and women, attended the meeting. No Preference What were the major goals of antebellum reform? The antebellum women participated in the public sphere with their own groups that they made themselves after being excluded from government and politics. What might the cost be in dollars? The Grimk sisters were one example of the overlap in the reformist impulse between abolitionism and womens rights. The Burned-Over District was not only the site of revivals of the Protestant denominations of the Second Great Awakening, but also the birthplace of new religious movements such as the Millerites, a millennial group who preached that the Second Advent (or second coming) of Jesus was imminent. Often, white abolitionists knowingly or unknowingly exploited stereotypes in their abolitionist efforts. The account spoke at length of Turners religiously informed views of slavery and of his interpretations of the Bible. Consolidated Statement of Income and Many Americans viewed drunkenness as a major national problem, and the battle against alcohol and the many problems associated . Accessibility StatementFor more information contact us atinfo@libretexts.orgor check out our status page at https://status.libretexts.org. Slavery was the cornerstone of the southern economy. The creation of asylums, for criminals and for the mentally ill, was society's reaction to the overcrowded and inhumane state that . Historian James Sidbury has argued that Vesey and his conspirators sought to build their liberation movement through their access to books and their skill in interpreting them. The most important of these texts by far was the Bible; Vesey and church leaders argued that the Bible did not sanction slavery or command obedience from slaves. 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. 0.080.080.08 There have been many movements over time that has led America to where we are today. Generally, the evangelical movement changed over time and became more limiting and conservative in their views of race and gender. \quad\text{Total Shareholders Equity}& \$11,000,000 &\$ 7,800,000\\ )%2F13%253A_Antebellum_Revival_and_Reform%2F13.03%253A_American_Antebellum_Reform, \( \newcommand{\vecs}[1]{\overset { \scriptstyle \rightharpoonup} {\mathbf{#1}}}\) \( \newcommand{\vecd}[1]{\overset{-\!-\!\rightharpoonup}{\vphantom{a}\smash{#1}}} \)\(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\)\(\newcommand{\AA}{\unicode[.8,0]{x212B}}\), 13.2: Cultural Movements- Transcendentalism, Utopian Communities, and the Cult of Domesticity, Abolitionism and the Womens Rights Movements, Catherine Locks, Sarah Mergel, Pamela Roseman, Tamara Spike & Marie Lasseter, source@https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/1/, status page at https://status.libretexts.org. 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. Consolidated Balance Sheets \quad\text{Total Current Assets}& \$ 2,925,000 &\$ 2,400,000\\ In the first issue of the Liberator, he made a public apology for ever advocating a gradual end to slavery and called for its immediate end. Antebellum reform efforts aimed at perfecting the spiritual and social worlds of individuals, and as an outgrowth of those concerns, some reformers moved in the direction of ensuring the health of American citizens. Significantly, Gabriel forbade the conspirators to kill Methodists and Quakers, groups that were actively seeking manumission for slaves in the area at this time. The womens rights movement did not attract broad support among women or men during the antebellum era. The movement began in the 1830s and revealed the growing consensus among northern free blacks on the importance of moral reform. \quad\text{Preferred Stock)}&& \$ 2.20\\ To understand it fully, however, one must consider its origins. "The Antebellum reforms was a new, more radical anti-slavery movement that emerged by the early 1830s. Workhouses were established to keep the poor from drunkenness, idleness, and gambling. In either case, they often heard the same sermons, sang the same songs, and received the same message. Pace of Life Preference by Gender. If they openly challenged the institution of slavery, slave owners would not allow their slaves to attend revival meetings or to hear the message. In numerous ways, the organized womens rights movement grew out of abolitionist organizations and the movement of the early 1800s. Angelina later married Theodore Dwight Weld, a prominent abolitionist preacher. Like many religious movements of the day, Mormons believed in the imminent Second Coming of Jesus. The Anti-Slavery Society was home to white and black abolitionists. This led to a women's movement that would run side by side with the abolition movement for equal rights among all people that live in the United States. Antebellum Reform Imagination A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the American Studies Program The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Robert Kent Nelson 2006. It's was the best answer at the time for white Americans. \text{Income Taxes Payable}& 430,000 &300,000\\ Douglass was a skilled orator and a prolific writer. To the eyes of many reformers, the movements in abolition and womens rights had much in common; many who worked to end slavery also called for the emancipation of women. Indeed, the womens rights movement had largely grown out of the anti-slavery movement. By helping others, they asserted their worth while at the same time alleviating social ills. "gentlemen of property and standing" (p. 453). \text{Hutchinson Company (25\\\% Owned)} &175,000 &100,000\\ Fifty-five slaves were tried for insurrection, murder, and treason. Unlike other reform movements, womens rights challenged the notion of separate spheres and the idea of true womanhood. Historians Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil argue that womens rights challenged the most basic idea of true womanhoodthe selfless nature of womenbecause womens rights advocacy led women to insist that they had the same claim on individual rights to life, liberty, property, and happiness as men. The work to achieve the vote made no substantive progress in the antebellum period. - the intent to remake human beings into free, morally upright citizens. After the conspiracy was quelled, white Charlestonians accused black congregations of the same offense: falsifying and misinterpreting the Bible. In 1828, his Likeness to God sermon argued that true religion is marked by the believer becoming more and more like God. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. \text{Rent Received in Advance}& 50,000& \\ This reform impulse captured one of the Second Great Awakening's basic messages: humanity could be improved, and indeed, perfected through religion and reform. The struggle to end slavery has a long history both globally and in the United States; indeed, the struggle to end slavery emerged at roughly the same time as slavery itself. 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. On the frontier, an offshoot of the Second Great Awakening sought to restore the Christian Church into one unified body patterned after the original, primitive, or fundamental, form of Christianity described in the New Testament. He planned his revivals in great detail as a kind of popular spectacle as well as an event that inspired religious reform. For some members of the movement, the idea meant the end of slavery; for others, it was an answer for racial tensions in the United States. American reformers believed that their country was destined to become a great democracy. \end{array} \text{Accounts Payable}& \$ 550,000 &\$ 400,000\\ In late August of 1831, Turner and his followers launched the rebellion. \text{Retained Earnings}& 5,000,000 &2,800,000\\ In the aftermath of the rebellion, the panicky white population killed more than one hundred black men, free and slave. - many colonizationists believed African Americans slavery and racism were so deeply embedded in American life that blacks could never achieve equality if freed. Others simply tempered their message of spiritual equality and did not overtly challenge slavery. In the 19th Century's Antebellum Era, Americans began several social reform movements influenced by transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening. The region of western and central New York where Finney was most active became the site of intensive religious fervor and reform. In 1833, Garrison was among the group that founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. Young female teachers staffed many of the schools. \text{Advances from Customers}& 640,000 &660,000\\ \text{Amortization of Patent} &&125,000\\ Reformers' definition of the free individual was the person who internalized the practice of self-control. For the most part, it appealed to the elite of society. The temperance movement and organizations had more than a million supporters who enthusiastically held rallies and distributed pamphlets on the evils of demon rum. By the 1860s, their efforts had indeed slowed, but certainly did not stop, the average Americans consumption of alcohol. For the urban poor, a very few were able to attend private charitable schools. Like the other evangelical movements of the Second Great Awakening, they stressed adult baptism as an important step to salvation. Evangelical in nature, it stressed that salvation was available to all through free will. While not all Americans were active in the various reform movements, taken together, the reform impulse was a powerful force that characterizes the antebellum era. Although neither group saw their causes ultimate goals achieved during the era of reform, each movement saw great advances. Eventually, the American Anti-Slavery Society itself split into factions over social issues. \text{LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY}\\ Learn about temperance and abolition and . b. One of the defining characteristics of the Second Great Awakening was large gatherings at religious revivals. In 1822 , a former slave named Denmark Vesey planned to lead eighty slaves in a revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. Camp meetings were so called because, on the sparsely populated frontier, many attendees had to travel long distances to the meeting and camp out at the location. \text{Employee Payroll Expense}&& 3,000,000\\ For the most part, colonizationists accepted the idea of black inferiority. \textbf{Investments}\\ Also, become productive, self-disciplined citizens. The meetings typically lasted three to five days and were meant to reawaken or revive ones religious faith through an intense, emotional experience. One of the most widespread of the reform movements in the 1820s-1840s was the temperance movement, which called for reducing the use of (or abstaining from) alcoholic beverages. In particular, women played a large role in various aspects of reform. 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. \text{Merchandise Inventory}& 1,800,000& 1,500,000\\ They also spent time helping with their husbands and whatever their needs were to promote the best work. This page titled 13.1: Religious Reforms in the Antebellum United States is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Catherine Locks, Sarah Mergel, Pamela Roseman, Tamara Spike & Marie Lasseter (GALILEO Open Learning Materials) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request. What are the other consequences? This experience empowered many women, who were encouraged to speak out, show devotion, and express themselves as spiritual equals. Retained Earnings for 2013 The market revolution had changed American society in many ways. 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. By 1850, about 3.2 million slaves labored in the United States, 1.8 million of whom worked in the cotton fields. Eventually, however, he was captured, tried, and executed. \quad\text{Total}& \$12,000,000 &\$ 9,200,000\\ The Second Great Awakening swept through most of the country, but it took differing forms in the North and the South. c. 1,341.001,341.001,341.00 There were still moments and events that made many Americans think that there was a lot of value in slavery in terms of free labor. Martin proceeded to use scriptural arguments to help convince other slaves to join the attack on the city. 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. Two of the most significant reform movements to come out of the reform period of 1820-1840 were the anti-slavery movement and the womens rights movement. American reformers also sought to implement school reform. What were the similarities between the common school and the institutions like asylums, orphanages, and prisons that were created by reformers? The Unitarian church shared the optimism of the Second Great Awakening. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they sometimes experienced from their fellow white abolitionists. Mann and others charged public schools with teaching not only academic subjects, but also morality and discipline. The American relationship with alcohol was not an issue that was resolved in the era of reform. 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. White abolitionists warned him that people would cease to believe that he had ever been enslaved if he sounded too educated and advised him to leave the complex analysis to the whites. Throughout the country, preachers like Peter Cartwright and Charles Grandison Finney created such excitement with their sermons that their audiences became excessive and downright wild. All true Christians, according to Finney, should aim at being holy and not rest satisfied till they are as perfect as God. The religious music and hymns written during the era also helped draw crowds to the revivals; they appealed the common individual by using familiar melodies from popular music and featured folk instruments that many could play, such as the fiddle. \text{Deferred Tax Liability} &\$ 1,570,000 &\$ 1,400,000\\ Camp meetings were a new form of religious expression for the United States. The result was the creation of penitentiaries, which sought to transform criminals into law abiding citizens through hard work, religious instruction, and isolation from the corruption of social vices. Others worked to make basic education available to all or sought to improve conditions in prisons and asylums. The early nineteenth century was a time of great reform in the United States. 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. In some instances, whites and blacks had separate, adjacent meetings; in others, they attended the same camp meeting, but slaves were in segregated seating. The Latter Day Saint Movement (of which the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, popularly called the Mormons, is the most important branch) also was born in the Burned-Over District during the era of the Second Great Awakening. Rumors spread across the South that the rebellion was not limited to Virginia; more African Americans were killed or arrested in Alabama, Virginia, and in other slaveholding states. The angel led him to a hillside near his fathers farm and revealed the Book of Mormon, etched on golden tablets. \quad\text{Total Assets}& \$20,000,000 &\$17,000,000\\ The new Protestant denominations, most prominently the Baptists and Methodists, grew in strength and numbers. utopian communities (p. 434) preconceived, presentist, and erroneous assumptions, neglecting to see the degree to which the past is truly diff erent from the present. The Mayflower carried barrels upon barrels of beer for its passengers. Antebellum reform was international in scope . The emerging American middle class participated in reform not only for religious reasons, but also to confirm their new social status. d. 12.0012.0012.00 Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. Legal. - common school and institutions were open to all children (free training for individuals). Walker stood as a vocal opponent of colonization, saying that the United States belonged more to African Americans than to whites, because the black population had earned the country with their blood and tears.. Debtors were punished by imprisonment. \quad\text{Total}& \$14,000,000 &\$13,200,000\\ Sold more than 1 million copies by 1854 and it also inspired numerous stage versions. 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{Common Stock}& 2,000,000& 2,000,000\\ In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of Frederick Douglass' relationship with the Garrisionians. Many prominent African American abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass were members of the Society. 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. Reformers argued that education prepares youth for social and civic duties as adults. The Americans made up a tiny minority of the population but dominated Liberian politics until the 1980s. Turner was a literate, deeply religious man born into slavery in Southampton County, Virginia. Mobs disrupted abolitionist meetings in northern cities. Which of the following is not a component of stockholders equity? Each of these movements worked for freedom and emancipation and to grant a greater body of rights to two of the groups on the periphery of American society. 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