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Knives in their Brains

Knives in their Brains.

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Knives in their Brains

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  1. Knives in their Brains “The ancient manners were giving way. There grew a certain tenderness on the people, not before remarked. It seemed a war between intellect and affection; a crack in nature, which split every church in Christendom… The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself… the young men were born with knives in their brains.” R.W. Emerson

  2. Education • Horace Mann- seeking a model of education in Europe (specifically Germany) • Free public education: there were secondary schools but no free education (though New England had a free public education) • More 3 R’s but make it attractive. Additionally, the basics: 1) Free elementary and secondary schools available to all; 2) professional teacher training; 3) compulsory attendance until a certain age • Teacher training: first American teacher college established in 1839 • Conflicts between the poor and the rich- did not want to have to pay taxes for a lower class.

  3. Insane & the Criminal Point of the judicial system- punish or reform? • Urbanization brought challenges to traditional care for the criminals, poor and insane: “discovery of the asylum” • Based on strict regiments of work or isolation- reflect on sin • But led to overcrowding and brutal discipline- did not achieve intended results. • Dorothea Dix… mental health • Misunderstood • 32 mental hospitals

  4. Temperance • “Demon Rum” • 10 Nights in a Bar Room • Neal Dow: Maine 1851 • “Dry”- 13 states by 1861

  5. Women’s Rights • Cult of Domesticity- women’s place was in a home and on a pedestal- separate spheres • Initiated out of the abolitionist movement- public speaking and calling for equal rights: Sarah and Angelina Grimke • Lucretia Mott • Elizabeth C. Stanton • Susan B. Anthony

  6. Goals of Women • Equal Education • Equal Employment • Rights of Property • Right to Vote Seneca Falls Manifesto 1848

  7. Religion • 2nd Great Awakening: belief that individuals were straying into Catholicism and Unitarianism- wanted to create a Protestant state • Lyman Beecher- leader of the Northern wing of the Great Awakening: campaign against sin and infidelity • Revivalism- renewal of having Jesus Christ being the personal lord and savior. Commit to a higher goal rather than just self interest… all levels of society, rich & poor. • Charles G. Finney: appeal to the heart rather than doctrine- belief that one could be totally free from sin. Allowed women to pray. • “Right Ground” • Camp meetings- the jerks • Circuit riders- authorized by Methodists… maintained religion in sparsely populated areas where ministers did not live.

  8. Thought • Transcendentalism: “a belief in the divinity of human nature” transcend normal thought to become one with the universe • Truth can be found through the observation of nature • Former Unitarians who wanted less doctrine and denominations • Ralph Waldo Emerson- oversoul, radical individualism • “The American Scholar” • Henry David Thoreau • “Walden” “Civil Disobedience”

  9. Literature • Early writers- James F. Cooper, Washington Irving Romanticism • Nathaniel Hawthorne- rejection of utopianism- society is flawed • Herman Melville • Edgar Allen Poe • Walt Whitman- life is beautiful.

  10. Utopianism • Mormons- Joseph Smith • Millerites- William Miller • Shakers- Mother Ann Lee (feminine incarnation of Christ)- strict celibacy… eventually die off- no reproduction • Oneida- Johnny H. Noyes- free love: God had already arrived and the old doctrine was no longer needed Charles Fourier- Frenchmen who adopted the ideas of equal community work. • New Harmony- George Rapp, Robert Owen- common and equal ownership • Brook Farm- George Ripley: transcendental living but with cooperation amongst the village- leads to new educational ideas

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