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Society, Culture, Reform

Transcendentalism

Temperance

Public Education Reform

Who: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

What: the belief that challenged materialism of American society by suggesting that artistic expression was more important than the pursuit of wealth

When: 1800s

Where: Brook Farm

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Anti-Slavery Movement

Who: Protestant ministers, American Temperance Society, Washingtonians

What: Persuasion of drinkers to take a pledge of abstinence.

When: mid 1800s

Where: The United States (South and East)

Why: decreased crime and poverty. Increased workers’ output on the job

Who: Horace Mann, William McGuffey

What: movement to establish free public schools for children of all social classes

When: Jacksonian era

Where: USA (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania especially)

Why: this created a base for school systems for many

Communal Experiments

Second Great Awakening

Who:William Garrison, James Birney, Fredrick Douglass, Nat Turner

What: ways in which abolisionists tried to abolish slavery... transporting freed slaves to african colonies, American Antislavery Society, violent revolts

When: 1800s

Where: USA

Why: this was how people tried to end the horrible acts of slavery

Asylum & Prison Reform

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Women's Rights

Who: Mormons, Shakers, Amana Colonies, New Harmony, Oneida Community, Fourier Phalanxes

What: social experiments to create an ideal community outside of the “real world”

When: antebellum years

Where: Brook Farm (in the case of the Mormons)

Why: This was in response to the time period and was an experiment for better living.

Who: Dorothea Dix, Thomas Gallaudet, Dr. Samuel Gridley

What: reform of setting up new public institutions that were cleaner. prisons and asylums were seperated

When: 1840s

Where: across the United States

Why: There are now clean and humane seperate institutions.

Who: Women reformers, Sarah and Angeline Grimke, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What: objection against male opposition to women being in anything other than secondary roles

When: 1800s

Where: America

Why: There are many things women can do now-a-days that we couldn’t before. This moved that process along

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