Reforming Society
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Protestant Revival | God all-powerful; people could shape their own destiny. Charles Grandison Finney. Lyman Beecher. |
| transcendentalism | did not preach reason and intellect. Escaping the world through your mind. Emerson. Thoreau. Movement inspired by philosophers and writers. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | encouraged people to involve themselves in reforming societies. Transcendentalist; launched American Renaissance |
| Henry David Thoreau | Wrote Walden. Two years solitary life in Walden Pond. |
| temperance movement | mid 1800's; encouraged people to drink less alcohol. Preached abstinence. First state to prohibit alcohol was Maine. |
| abstinence | refraining from doing something |
| segregate | to separate forcefully by race |
| Public Education | working and middle classes wanted to reform education for their kids. Quality of teaching was crap. Horace Mann; promoted self-discipline and good citizenship; tax payer financed. Benefit society. School more common in urban North. Girls discouraged to go; whites only. |
| Reforming Prisons | confined in horrible conditions. Dorothea Dix: Separate mentally ill from criminal element. |
| utopian communities | get away from urbane and industrialization. religiously oriented. They fell victim to laziness, selfishness, and inter-fighting. |
| Abolition movement | Worked to end slavery. divided on how women could be involved. Roots in the churches. Idea to send them to Liberia (Western Africa). Opposition in the North: Large, wealthy industrialists. Opposition in the South: Rapid, heretic, killed or hanged. |
| Frederick Douglass | Wrote North Star. Former slave. Taught to read. Words as well as deed needed to fight slavery. |
| Canada | where slaves wanted to go. Underground Railroad led to here. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | the "Liberator". American Anti-Slavery Society. |
| gag rule | Rule used in the House of Representative so that petitions for antislavery could not be read. Southern Congressmen. |
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