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Antebellum/Postbellum - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "A Scarlett Letter"
      - Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
    - - Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- - - - 1840s, taught a Sunday school in a women's prison
        
        Petitioned to Mass. legislature, called for psychiatric hospitals to cure mentally ill patients on the foundation of kindness and respect
        
        expanded efforts to prison reform
- - - - irish catholics
        
        catholics made their own schooling system for fear of religious discrimination
      - blacks
        
        faced marginalization and exclusion due to race/ethnicity/religion
        
        sarah harris, first black female admitted in 1832
        
        faced backlash from white parents
        
        in response, reopened as an all black school for females
        
        closed due to violent backlash
        
        access to education for enslaved blacks was illegal
        
        freedom schools for emancipated black people
        
        howard university and other historical black colleges were founded
      - women
        
        oberlin college, ohio; first to admit women
        
        Mt. Holyoke female seminary, south hadley, mass.
- - - - women would hold organized marches and public prayer for the "soul of america" and demand that bar employees/owners stop selling alcohol
        
        these marches were banned in several big cities due to the disruption of traffic but i think it was just the municipal government's way of saying they were done with their nutty bs
    - - many ohioans participated in the temperance movement and some towns went as far as banning the substance altogether