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In which ways did reformers attempt to change social institutions
Education
skilled workers being replaced with machines
investing in roads, turnpikes, bridges, canals, and railroads
Emma Willard + Emma Willard school
Horace Mann defined the common school movement
Emma Willard, Catherine Beecher, and Mary Lyon
Canterbury (Connecticut) female boarding school
reform in antebellum
womens rights campaign
education for slaves was forbidden -> educational rights struggled past the civil war
racially integrated schools in Boston, new York and Philadelphia
prudence Crandall and john Chavis
Mann, Crandall, Beecher, and Chavis, continue to be a part of the national debate
Prisons and Asylums
Antebellum Prisons/Newgate/Auburn/Sing Sing
Role of religion
Late 1820s
Antebellum Era (time before civil war and 1812) --> four first major reforms
Dorothy Dix - asylum and prison reformer/crusader for patients with mental illness
Abolitionism
asylums = to rehabilitate and reform unstable patients
Dix is searching prisons for experiments
Civil war
Dix died at 85 and is remembered as a pioneer for her achievements
Temperence
Barnum as a Temperance Speaker
Temperance was a social as well as political movement, as this program :text for an 1850 temperance convention
Barnum on the Democratic Party and Temperance, 1852
temperance advocates increasingly turned to the electoral realm to elect candidates who supported strict laws against consuming and selling alcohol
prohibition of alcohol
Ten Nights in a Bar Room -> popular temperance melodrama
drunkard
Narratives of fall and redemption were a popular mode of temperance advocacy
the Promotion of Temperance
Acts that outlawed the sale of liquor came to be known as "Maine Liquor Laws"
Abstinence Pledge, 1845
the Library Company of Philadelphia traces the temperance movement from its late eighteenth-century origins to its late nineteenth-century peak
Arts
Paintings/poetry/Literature/authors/
Hudson River School
Thomas Cole - first land scape painter
The Village Blacksmith poem
painting shows Cole's and the poets inspiration