1. Aim: How did the reform movements of the 1840’s affect the US?
Growth of US
↑Industry
↑ population
Improved transportation
Problems due to growth
Poverty/drinking/lack of education/
Middle Class reformers
Education $$
Political power

2. Religious Reform 2nd Great Awakening Many new religions developed
People choose their path or destiny
Opposite of predestination
Empowered the common man
Many new religions developed
Mormons
Utopian societies

3. Transcendentalism
an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson/ Henry David Thoreau/ Walden Pond
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
True knowledge or ideal spiritual state “transcends”, or is unable to know through the physical and empirical world
Non-violent protests
Didn’t pay taxes
Jailed
abolitionists

4. Temperance Movement
The goal was to reduce, not necessarily end drinking!
Why?
Moral/Health
Work/$$
Why women?
Husbands spent $$/ decrease in family stability
Successful???
gallons year, gallons year
Maine 1851 banned alcohol
13 states before Civil War at one time or another banned alcohol
18th Amendment- Prohibition (1919)

5. Alcohol Consumption in US

6. And you thought you had a bad hangover the next morning?

7. I thought the goal was to stop us from drinking???????

8. Education Horace Mann Free public elementary schools
High School very rare
3 R’s
Teachers often were “fly by night”
Longer school years
Teacher preparation
1 room schoolhouse

10. Prisons/Mentally ill Dorothea Dix Toured prisons throughout US
Debtors/ hardcore criminals and mentally retarded people in same jails
Mentally retarded chained to the walls
Purpose of jails
Originally punitive
She alters it to “correction” “reform” “rehabilitation”
She leads way for mental hospitals

11. Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Lucretia Mott
“Declaration of Sentiments”
Reread Dec. of Independence and put “women” in
“History of Women’s Suffrage”
Start of women fight for voting rights
National Women’s Rights Convention-Worcester Mass.