Inspiration: Religion and Reform
Conditions
--Second Great Awakening
--Communications revolution
Rotary Press
“Penny dailies”
New York Tribune
Harper’s Weekly
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
--Perceived need for reform
Rise of Middle Class
Urbanization
Immigration
Search for Order
Five Points, Manhattan
Education
Horace Mann
McGuffey’s Readers
Prisons
Auburn Prison
Asylums
Health
Sylvester Graham
Temperance
Economic
Moral
Family
American Temperance Society
Maine Law
“The Tree of Life”
The Drunkard, or Ten Nights in Bar Room
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