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Topic: In what ways did the Great Awakening in the North Influence TWO of the following?
Abolitionism
Temperance
The cult of domesticity
Utopian communities
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Temperance
Utopian Communities
Date
19th Century
19th Century
19th century
Location
Throughout
America, however
largely focused in
the Northern States
Throughouth the
US, but largely in
the Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic,
some societies in
Widespread phenomenon
South
Leaders
William Floyd
Garrison
Liberty Party
American
Temperance
Society
N/A
Legislation
Alcohol
completely banned
in 1920, but
repealed in 1933
N/A
N/A
Effects of
Religion
The beginning of
the abolitionist
movement was
founded by the
Quaker religious
beliefs, and a large
argument was that
slavery was
religiously immoral.
Churches against
temperance were
motivated by their
religious stance
against drinking
and that
inebriation could
be a sin.
1. Thesis: The Second Great Awakening brought forth a new era of emotional reasoning that
became the fundamental ideology of both the abolitionism and temperance movements. This
introduction of emotion provided religious justification for not only the establishment of these
movements, but also the arguments in which these movements put forth in response to their
community environments.
2. Outline:
a. Introduction: Prior to the Second Great Awakening
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Background information First Great Awakening
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Background information Competing ideologies and trends (industrial
revolution, transportation revolution, market revolution, and communications
revolution)
b. Body 1: Second Great Awakening Ideals
i.
Topic 1: Introduction to Second Great Awakening
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Topic 2: General revival of religious values
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Topic 3: Prevalence of emotional values and rationale
c. Body 2: Abolitionism
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Topic 1: The effect of religious values in establishing human rights
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Topic 2: The role of religious groups and leaders in establishing abolitionist organizations
Topic 3: Religious elements in the foundations of the American government and legislation
Topic 4: Religious AND ideological hypocrisy of the slave institution
Body 3: Temperance
Topic 1: Summary of temperance movement
Topic 2: Role of religion in the promotion of temperance
Topic 3: The role of women in the temperance movement
Topic 4: Legislation as a result of the temperance movement
Conclusion: Restate the thesis and end with the synthesis point
Synthesis:
The religious ideals of Abolitionism provided the foundations for Northern abolitionists counter
against the Souths religious argument for keeping slaves. In this way, the political and economic
conflict between the North and the South, which eventually amounted to the Civil War,
transitioned into a moral conflict regarding the issue of slavery.
b. Both Abolitionism and Temperance attracted many women to the workings of public life.
Because much of these movements were run and supported by women, women gained a degree
of social independence and acquired very effective organizational skills that they later put to use
in advocating for their own suffrage movement.