Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet The Second Great Awakening • A large movement which included women's rights protests, abolitionism and the Temperance movement Women's Rights • The Cult of Domesticity Women were expected to stay in the household. Women are considered as superior as they taught values of morality • Seneca Falls Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton: excluded from abolition convention in London Abolition • American Colonization Society It wanted to send all free blacks out of the country and colonize them in Africa Liberia was established for these freedmen • William Lloyd Garrison A very influential abolitionist, who founded the Anti-Slavery Society He supported emancipation without emigration • Abolition in the South South resented these ideals and stopped all anti-slavery literature from coming to South Elijah Lovejoy, who ran an abolition paper was killed by Southerners Temperance • Lyman Beecher Leader of the temperance movement • American Temperance Society It saw alcohol as a threat to public morality Women were a major force in the temperance movement The society persuaded people to take total abstinence pledges