2nd Great Awakening

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

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>                   2ND GREAT AWAKENING & WESTWARD EXPANSION
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> 1815-1850
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>    This time period brought the young country through rapid social and
>    economic change. This change brought with it regional and cultural
>    tensions. Americans sought personal, social and economic improvements
>    in their lives. A new middle class arose as people moved from rural to
>    urban settings. In the Northeast, lives changed for girls and women as
>    the factory system took hold. Lowell Mill Girls Americans also took
>    aim at the problems resulting from rapid social change and women like
>    Dorothea Dix left their mark on society. Women also began leaving
>    their mark in the professions, more and more women began teaching and
>    one courageous women, despite unbelieveable odds recieved a medical
>    degree. Elizabeth Blackwell 
>    
>    Participation in the anti-slavery movement inspired many women to
>    consider their own role in society. Some believed like Catharine
>    Beecher that a women's place was in her duty to home and family. She
>    wrote her down her thoughts in her Treatiste on Domestic Economy.
>    Sarah Hale, in the meantime spent 40 years defining for millions of
>    American women their proper sphere...refined, educated, moral,
>    wholesome, tasteful, gentle and skillful homemakers. She did this
>    through Godey's Lady's Book. While women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton
>    took a more active role in the fight for equal rights for women. An
>    important day came for women when Stanton and others issued the
>    Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention, in Seneca
>    Falls, New York.
>    
>    American pushed westward toward Texas, California and Oregon in search
>    of new opportunities. The lives of the Native Americans were once more
>    impacted by the movement of the white man. Thousands of settlers
>    traveled west over the Oregon Trail to Oregon and California. Among
>    them Narcissa Whitman who was the first white women to travel the
>    Oregon Trail.