HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Second Great Awakening, Lowell Mill Girls, Puritans
16 Dec 2017
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The Impact of the Market Revolution on the North Lesson 12 Part B !
The Second Great Awakening !
-America went under a wave of religious revivals known as the Second Great Awakening !
-The largest outpouring of religious sentiment since the American Revolution !
-Percentage of church membership was not that great after the Revolution !
-Separation of church and state was liberated completely !
-Second great awakening replaces the old puritan religion of new England and its view on sin !
-The new religion stressed that by taking personal responsibility and doing hard work anyone
could achieve salvation !
-With that positive message, the Methodist and Baptist churches went through growth
periods !
-Thousands of people showed up for emotional revival meetings, where communities would
join together to repent their sins !
-Was an emotional heartfelt religion !
-Burned District by holding so many hellļ¬re sermons !
The Womenās Movement and Abolitionism !
- Women were not allowed in the main convention and have a voice, they would have to sit
behind a curtain !
-They just had to sit up there and listen to it which really made them angry !
-Women said this was wrong and they have to not only ļ¬ght against slavery with our fellow
abolitionists but they have to ļ¬ght against women enslavement !
-Have the rise of womenās rights movement !
-They rewrite the Declaration of Independence saying that all men and women are created
equally ā not just men!
-They begin to call for the right to vote, increased property rights for women, increased
employment opportunities for women!
-They move into issues!
ā¢They look into male drunkenness !
ā¢They look at the amount of money that goes into the saloons!
ā¢See this as a moral issue and economic injustice !
ā¢āGet men out of the saloons and youāll have more money for the familyā!
-Some will move into the urban reform !
ā¢Take on the issues of children !
ā¢Take on the issues of motherās health !
ā¢Make cities places where people can eat wholesome food, and can be safe in their jobs !
-Social ambition that goes together with their ambition for the suļ¬rage that deļ¬nes the
womenās movement !
The Lowell Girls !
-1800ās America was moving quickly away from their agricultural country into an industrialized
nation !
-With the transformation came the creation of a new workforce, for a new kind of factory !
-Sons would move west with mothers, but what to do with daughters?!
ā¢They moved into the new textile industries !
-One of them opened by Francis Cabot Lowell made the process of turning cotton into cloth !
-After Lowell died, his friends built a city around his factory and named it after him !
-The factories drew women from all over New England ā some as young as 16 !
-They came to help with the families income and more importantly they came to discover a
new life, one of opportunity and independence !
-Lowell, Massachusetts was the ļ¬rst real factory town !
ā¢Had boarding houses and churches !
ā¢Had places where the girls could attend lectures and concerts !
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Document Summary
The impact of the market revolution on the north lesson 12 part b. America went under a wave of religious revivals known as the second great awakening. The largest outpouring of religious sentiment since the american revolution. Percentage of church membership was not that great after the revolution. Separation of church and state was liberated completely. Second great awakening replaces the old puritan religion of new england and its view on sin. The new religion stressed that by taking personal responsibility and doing hard work anyone could achieve salvation. With that positive message, the methodist and baptist churches went through growth periods. Thousands of people showed up for emotional revival meetings, where communities would join together to repent their sins. Burned district by holding so many hell re sermons. Women were not allowed in the main convention and have a voice, they would have to sit behind a curtain.
