Temperance
Movement
a. TS Arthur's: "Ten
Nights in a Barroom and
What I Saw There"
b. Teetotalism
c. Dow: Maine Law of
1851
2nd Great Awakening
Prisons
Transcendentalism
No more debtors
prison.
Emerson, Thoreau
Wilderness Utopia
Brook Farm, New
Harmony, Oneida
Mentally Ill
Dorothy Dix and her
work.
The Zeitgeist
of the Era
"The Rise of the
Common Man"
Women's Rights
10% of women were spinsters by the Civil War
Market Economy
Beecher: become teachers
Lucetia Mott, Elizathbeth Cady Stanton (no obey),
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone (no marriage name)
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
Charles Finney
"it is the duty of the believer to bring the
Kingdom of God to Earth"
Mormonism
-MormonismPeter Cartwright--circuit rider
Millerites-Adventists
Abolition
Radical Abolition
Garrison-"The Liberator"
John Brown
Regular Abolition
Frederick Douglass: Narrative of
the Life of frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe's--Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Public Education
a. Horace Mann
b. Voting Changes
c. Noah Webster, McGuffey
Reader
d. New Colleges
e. Female Seminary in Troy
ff. Oberlin
Ob li College
C ll
Literature
Hawethorne-Scarlet Letter
Melville's Moby Dick
Louisa may Alcott Little Women
Egdar Allen Po
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
1790
1790-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1860
1860