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An Age of Reform (Section 1: Improving Society (Education Reform (Mann and…
An Age of Reform
Section 1: Improving Society
Social Reformers at Work
The Temperance Movement
Alcohol ban
Whiskey cleaner than water
Women involved
Prohibition
Prison Reform
Debtors & mentally ill imprisoned
Dorothea Dix
Gave debtors another place to be other than prison
Made asylums for the mentally ill
Poor conditions
Reported to to legislature to fix up
Reforms for the Mentally Ill
The Reforming Spirit
Jacksonian Democracy
Everyone created equal
U.S. more democratic
The Second Great Awakening
Religious awakening
First: Predestination
Charles Finney
Religious revival
Reform lives of sinners & society
Now: Doctrine of free will
People had the power to improve society
Utopian Communities
Perfect society
Based off of the book
Utopia
Robert Owen/New Harmony
Education Reform
Mann and Public Education
Kids must be taught the bible
Need for Better Education
Education for African Americans
Public schools
Section 4: American Literature and Arts
An American Culture Develops
Arts & books modeled after Euro. styles
Artists generally trained in Euro.
American Themes
James Fenimore Cooper
Created Natty Bumppo who is a Transcendentalist
Helped spread Amer. Litt. throughout Euro.
Washington Irving
Wrote about Dutch New York
Created Rip Van Winkle who slept through the Amer. Revo.
American optimism & energy
Transcendentalism
New movement: Romanticism
Sought to explore human-nature relations
Belief in close links btwn humans & nature
Emerson And Thoreau
Emerson leader of transcendentalists
Thoreau took on Emerson's challenge
Both transcendentalists
Influenced people like MLK
Flowering of American Literature
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Melville and Hawthorne
Fascinated by psychology & extreme emotions
Melville wrote a story about a megalomaniacal pirate chasing a white whale
Hawthorne wrote about puritan life in Massachusetts
Alcott
Gentler view of New England
Created a heroine that was actually believable
Poets of Democracy
Walt Whiteman first person to write informal poetry
Whitter & Harper wrote poems describing slavery
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about American history
Art and Music
Painting America
Hudson River School painted Hudson River Valley
Inspired by every-day life
Popular Songs
Most American songs were work-based
Spirituals developed by slaves
Stephen Foster popular songwriter
Shifting towards landscapes
Making American Themes
Section 3: A Call for Women's Rights
The Struggle Begins
Limited women's rights
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Convention
Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in London
Mott & Stanton started a women's rights convention.
Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Sentiments
Stanton opposed taxation without representation
Call for Suffrage
Women's Suffrage
Controversial