HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ann Lee, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention
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William miller and millerites: 7th day adventist churches. Ann lee founder of the shakers 1760s. Came to the colonies with her followers and the revolutionaries. Both men and women both worked in the kitchen/field/church. Racial equality among a slave state (kt) Believed that regulation and good order were the strengths of every institution. Society always has people who do not fit in. Safe place to leave children if they were unwanted. Alcohol consumption in antebellum period and before we 3x what it is now. Women"s movement and abolitionism comes from temperance. Men have the ability to spend money however they want when married so women wanted to prevent them from spending their money on alcohol.
