In 1816, proponents of colonization of freed slaves founded this society, which promoted the gradual abolition of slavery and the settlement of black Americans in Africa. \text{Gain on Sale of Machinery and Equipment}&& 200,000\\ In the spirit of the Enlightenment, Unitarians held that theological ideology should be subject to rational thought and reason; Channing preached that my rational nature is from God. Unitarians attested to the oneness of God. As strict monotheists, Unitarians viewed Jesus as a saintly man, but not divine. Simultaneously, the slaves, women, and children were told that obedience to their master was their Christian duty. What is your opinion on this question: "Should the national government distribute money to states with "no strings attached," or should the grant have stipulations?" 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. These movements were generally more active in the Northern states. \quad\text{Total}& \$14,000,000 &\$13,200,000\\ Before the early 1800s, education for most Americans was very basic. Its roots lay in the revivals of the Second Great Awakening, where religious reformers called for individuals to lead clean lives and to redeem their sinning neighbors. \text{Amortization of Patent} &&125,000\\ \text{Land}& \$ 500,000 &\$ 400,000\\ In 1828, his Likeness to God sermon argued that true religion is marked by the believer becoming more and more like God. The Second Great Awakening and the movement in religious revival in the United States had a profound impact on the United States. In the spring of 1841, Dix visited a Cambridge jail in order to teach Sunday school for a group of women inmates. \text{Less Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization}& (4,000,000) &(3,800,000)\\ Finney also protested against slavery from the pulpit, and became active in the abolitionist movement. \text{EXPENSES}\\ \text{Patent}& \$ 750,000 &\$ 875,000\\ Old patterns were breaking down, and many felt that the country had become a moral vacuum. Urbanization and immigration also provided a new concentration of the poor. Two of the most significant reform movements to come out of the reform period of 1820-1840 were the anti-slavery movement and the women's rights movement. \text{Accounts Receivable (Net of Estimated Uncollectibles}\\ Sold more than 1 million copies by 1854 and it also inspired numerous stage versions. The African Methodist Episcopal Church where Vesey preached was destroyed. The antebellum period of America was an era of change. The colonizationist wanted antislavery but the want to segregation between white and blacks. Although black and white abolitionists worked closely together in the movement and usually worked well together, African Americans experienced racial prejudice even within the abolitionist movement. 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 1836, when abolitionists began to flood Washington with petitions calling for emancipation in the nation's capital, the House of Representatives adopted the notorious "gag rule," which prohibited their consideration. Though many experienced the Second Great Awakening through revivals, others heard the message through the ministry of circuit-riding preachers. - women at this time were fighting to show that they are just as good as men. \quad\text{Total}& \$12,000,000 &\$ 9,200,000\\ Teachers tend to be so . Eventually, however, he was captured, tried, and executed. Three hundred delegates, both men and women, attended the meeting. The end of slavery would come about gradually under this ideal. \textbf{Intangibles (at Net Carrying Value)}\\ The market revolution had changed American society in many ways. For the urban poor, a very few were able to attend private charitable schools. \text{Diluted Earnings per Share (Assuming Conversion of}\\ A man could divorce his wife should she commit adultery but a woman could not divorce her husband on grounds of adultery. 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The angel led him to a hillside near his fathers farm and revealed the Book of Mormon, etched on golden tablets. He ended his appeal by writing, I will not equivocate- I will not excuse- I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard. Along with an immediate end to slavery, Garrison also espoused racial equality as an absolute necessity to ending the institution without massive bloodshed. Like the preachers of the revivals, the temperance movement reformers called for individuals to lead clean lives and to redeem their sinning neighbors. The evangelical message that ones birth, education, wealth, and social status did not matter in the eyes of God held great appeal for the masses of the frontier. Alcohol in many forms had been an important part of the diet of Americans from the founding of the colonies onward. 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. Over the course of the nineteenth century, many towns and counties became dry. Perhaps the greatest legislative victory for the temperance movement during the era of reform was Maines shortlived total ban on alcohol from 1851-1856. 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. \textbf{Current Assets}\\ \textbf{Shareholders Equity}\\ The Seneca Falls Convention was an important beginning to the womens rights movement and became the basis for the organization of annual conventions to support and develop the movement in years to come. Debtors were punished by imprisonment. Horrified, she worked to publicize the conditions of the jail and gain public support for its improvement. In the 19th Century's Antebellum Era, Americans began several social reform movements influenced by transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening. Legal. \textbf{Property, Plant, and Equipment}\\ Everyone was eligible for salvation, and a loving God embraced all. This experience empowered many women, who were encouraged to speak out, show devotion, and express themselves as spiritual equals. In the South, the movement became more conservative over time, and generally supported the system of slavery. Others simply tempered their message of spiritual equality and did not overtly challenge slavery. The first and foremost of these goals was achieving the right to vote as an inalienable right of full, republican citizenship. Many mentally ill individuals eventually ended up imprisoned as well, as no facilities for the treatment of the mentally ill existed. The Americans made up a tiny minority of the population but dominated Liberian politics until the 1980s. Also, become productive, self-disciplined citizens. The Anti-Slavery Society was home to white and black abolitionists. \text{Common Stock}& 2,000,000& 2,000,000\\ Whiskey was a frontier staple for generations because it preserved the harvest; in 1791, a Hamiltonian attempt to tax whiskey to alleviate the national debt resulted in the Whiskey Rebellion. 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. \text{Retained Earnings, December 31, 2012}&& 2,800,000\\ The difference were common school and institution was open to all children and were getting educated, a free training for individuals. The new Protestant denominations, most prominently the Baptists and Methodists, grew in strength and numbers. Additional information is as follows: The convention ended with the issue of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that largely paralleled the Declaration of Independence, and leveled a series of charges against the patriarchy of the United States that had been the source of the oppression of women. 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The abolitionist sentiment was also present in the South. Abolitionism was perhaps the most radical of the reform movements of the era. Participation in the temperance movement was much more socially acceptable than participation in the abolition or womens rights movement. As a result, some African American congregants left the evangelical churches because of racial discrimination or because they were barred from leadership positions within the church and founded their own evangelical denominations, such as the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. In addition to cotton, the great commodity of the antebellum South was human chattel. In numerous ways, the organized womens rights movement grew out of abolitionist organizations and the movement of the early 1800s. 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The Book of Mormon was published in 1830, and Smith began the formation of his church. \text{Retained Earnings}& 5,000,000 &2,800,000\\ 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. The response to these conditions was the 1826 creation of the American Temperance Society in Boston, Massachusetts. The early message also empowered African Americans, free and enslaved. Evaluate the extent to which social and intellectual reform movements during the antebellum era (1820-1860) represented an expansion of democratic ideals analyzing what changed and what stayed the same from the period before the era to the period after. \quad\text{Total Property, Plant, and Equipment}& \$10,000,000 &\$ 9,400,000\\ Revivalist preachers traveled on horseback, sharing the message of spiritual and moral renewal to as many as possible. No Preference \text{Employee Payroll Expense}&& 3,000,000\\ Abolitionists differed in their ideas about how to effectively bring about the end of slavery. \text{Increase in Retained Earnings}&& \$ 2,200,000\\ Meanwhile, many doctors were citing large amounts of alcohol as injurious to an individuals health. Their intense and emotional atmosphere inspired a tremendous number of conversions. Douglass was a skilled orator and a prolific writer. - people brought ideas from different countries, across the Atlantic, Give Me Liberty Ch. The Second Great Awakening manifested itself somewhat differently regionally. \quad\text{Rosenwald Company}&125,000\\ The amendment was passed after years of efforts by temperance societies throughout the country. In many ways, the organized womens rights movement grew out of abolitionist organizations and the movement of the early 1800s. The antebellum reform movements came soon after the market revolution. Before the nineteenth century, crime, poverty, and mental illness in America were handled through family and voluntary efforts. Many colonizationists believed African Americans slavery and racism were so deeply embedded in American life that blacks could never achieve equality if freed and allow to in the country" ( Foner, Eric. - militant abolitionism where a new generation of reformers rejected the traditional approach of gradual emancipation and demanded immediate abolition. The earliest womens colleges were founded in the 1830s: the Georgia Female College in Macon, Georgia (now Wesleyan College), founded in 1836, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts (Now Mount Holyoke College), founded in 1837. Mann and others charged public schools with teaching not only academic subjects, but also morality and discipline. The basic message was that salvation was something anyone could achieve: ordinary people could choose salvation through personal experience and living a righteous life. \text{Less: Dividends on Preferred Shares}&&(120,000)\\ Not all preachers took the same attitude towards women as Finney; many preachers in the north turned to the same passages and idea of Christian men as patriarchs to their wives, female relatives, and children that were used in the South to reassert the dominance of white males. Reformers worked to create public institutions to deal with the social problems. \text{REVENUES}\\ \text{Advances from Customers}& 640,000 &660,000\\ One means of teaching these values was through the series McGuffeys Readers, a series of texts that taught not only spelling and vocabulary, but also punctuality, frugality, and temperance. Further reproduction prohibited without . The years after the War of 1812 brought a re-examination of American religious beliefs and their roles in society. Although neither group saw their causes ultimate goals achieved during the era of reform, each movement saw great advances. \text{Building}& 4,000,000 &4,000,000\\ Even anti-slavery and abolitionist groups refused to grant full rights to black members. Mainly, it had drastically weakened the ties that bound . In July 1848 they were finally able to call together a group together for the first national convention devoted to the issue of womens rights, the Seneca Falls Convention. The wealthy engaged private tutors and academies. The similarities and differences between the common school and institution like asylums, orphanages, and prisons that were created by reformers are the similarities were the intent to remake human beings into free, morally upright citizens and shared with communitarians and religious believers. Many of the congregants were literate, including Vesey himself. The movements shared a common support base, and many abolitionists advocated, or were active in, the womens rights movement, or vice versa. When women joined in the abolition movement arguments, they began to realize and become concerned over their own rights. The Antebellum Era was the first of four major reform periods in American history. 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 ideals of the Second Great Awakening played a large role in the development of this reformist impulse. In 1823, Smith recounted that an angel named Moroni had visited him. Consolidated Statement of Income and \quad\text{Total Expenses}&& \$11,720,000\\ By the 1790s, these two churches were gaining great popularity in the United States. \text{Rent Received in Advance}& 50,000& \\ 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. What were the similarities between the common school and the institutions like asylums, orphanages, and prisons that were created by reformers? Questions relating to the financial statements of Chicago Corporation follow. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they sometimes experienced from their fellow white abolitionists. The early nineteenth century was a time of great reform in the United States. Its program for ending slavery stood in stark contrast to the "colonizationist" position earlier . Many different kinds of Americans worked in the reform movement. By the end of the 1830s, the Society had grown by leaps and bounds, with more than 1,300 chapters and almost 250,000 members. The movements shared a common support base: many abolitionists supported or were active in the womens rights movement, or vice versa. For example, as Frederick Douglass rose to prominence as an orator in the abolitionist movement, he began speaking not only of his life as a slave, but also analyzing abolitionist policies. Which of the following is not a component of stockholders equity? \quad\text{Hutchinson Company}& 75,000 &2,000,000\\ Leadership and authority within the church was the exclusive domain of white men. \text{Income TaxesCurrent}&& 1,430,000\\ Explain in your own words the significance of writing a bad check. Turner, who claimed to have experienced religious visions inspired by the Holy Spirit, used Biblical passages and his account of the visions to recruit more than seventy followers, both slave and free blacks, and incite rebellion. One of the defining characteristics of the Second Great Awakening was large gatherings at religious revivals. Slavery was the cornerstone of the southern economy. \textbf{Long-Term Debt}\\ During the 1830s and 1840s, Americans embarked on a program of institution building - jails for criminals, poorhouses for the destitute, asylums for the insane, and orphanages for children without families. \text{ASSETS}\\ What were the aims of prisons, asylums, and other institutions in this period of social Many of his followers sold their worldly goods and gathered either in churches or in fields to await the arrival of Jesus. Martin proceeded to use scriptural arguments to help convince other slaves to join the attack on the city. The rebellion was quelled by a local militia, who killed or captured many of the insurrectionists. - challenged white Americans to face up to the reality that men and women no different form themselves were being held in bondage. Evangelical churches became tightlyknit communities that sought to transform society first as a force that determined and enforced values, morality, and conduct, and second, by outreach through moral reform societies that concentrated on reforming personal vices such as drinking, sexual misconduct, and gambling. \text{Convertible Preferred Stock}& \$ 2,000,000 &\$ 2,000,000\\ For the most part the reforms were a part of internal turmoil and the international scope was very limited. Like the other evangelical movements of the Second Great Awakening, they stressed adult baptism as an important step to salvation. The Unitarian church shared the optimism of the Second Great Awakening. A popularized outlook by way of revivals. Revivals also created a widely known group of respected black leaders, many among them preachers associated with the movement. In the aftermath of the rebellion, the panicky white population killed more than one hundred black men, free and slave. This is especially true of the Baptist church; independent black congregations were founded all over the South. Many southerners feared an uprising from within by the abolitionists. American reformers also sought to implement school reform. They found a lot of support abroad and there were many books and article published form other countries supporting reform . Angelina later married Theodore Dwight Weld, a prominent abolitionist preacher. \text{Equity in Earnings of Affiliates:}\\ \textbf{Investments}\\ \quad\text{Average Shares Outstanding)} &&\$ 2.68\\ Simplify!"; and the minister Theodore Parker's close association with the radical abolitionist John Brown. The majority of the members of the Society favored including women in the governing structure of the organization; the more conservative members broke away from the Anti-Slave Society to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slave Society, which excluded women. The Garrisionians wanted Douglass to simply get up and tell his story, to tell his narrative on the platform. Discuss any differences between the preferences of men and women. Americans consumed huge quantities of liquor in the early 1800s, including gin, whiskey, rum, and brandy. Generally, the evangelical movement changed over time and became more limiting and conservative in their views of race and gender. Revival and Religious Change. The account spoke at length of Turners religiously informed views of slavery and of his interpretations of the Bible. Pace of Life Preference by Gender. In particular, women played a large role in various aspects of reform. To understand it fully, however, one must consider its origins. TEMPERANCE. Throughout New England, many Christians began to espouse Unitarianism, a sect based on the importance of human reason. Often, white abolitionists knowingly or unknowingly exploited stereotypes in their abolitionist efforts. - moral suasion through speeches and literature. They were subsequently executed. 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 Second Great Awakening encouraged this impulse to reform by emphasizing individual responsibility and the desire to seek perfection. 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. There have been many movements over time that has led America to where we are today. Antebellum PeriodAntebellum is a Latin word that means "before the war." In American history, the antebellum period refers to the years after the War of 1812 (1812-15) and before the Civil War (1861-65). \text{Rosenwald Company (50\\\% Owned)}& 1,025,000& 900,000\\ One of the most prominent abolitionists of the era was William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator. Social activists sought to end slavery and establish greater rights for women. \text{Capitalized Lease Obligation}& 1,020,000& 1,100,000\\ Transatlantic cooperation galvanized efforts to reform individuals' and societies' relationships to alcohol, labor, religion, education, commerce, and land ownership. Account spoke at length of Turners religiously informed views of race and gender the abolitionist sentiment was present! To a hillside near his fathers farm and revealed the Book of Mormon was published 1830. 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