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Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” -Horace Mann.
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Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” -Horace Mann
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Religious Revivals Second Great Awakening Baptists Methodists Smith – Mormons Millenialism Revivalists Finney Beechar
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Transcendentalists Spiritual discovery & insight, morals, self-reliance. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays nationalistic/create American Culture. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience – Leisure, peace, and non-violence.
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Utopian Communities Shakers New Harmony – Owen Oneida – Noyes Brook Farm – intellectuals like Hawthorne. *Looking for the perfect society.
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Temperance Eliminate alcohol consumption. Focus on self-control and self-discipline. American Temperance Society – WCTU 18thAmendment. Maine – 1st statewide ban.
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Art & Architecture Paintings Greek diffusion Literature – Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick Hawthorne, Irving, Cooper
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Public Education & Asylums Horace Mann – Public Schools and moral education leads to new higher learning. Dorothea Dix – New prisons, hospitals, and poorhouses. Deals with Mental patients, disabilities, and prisoners
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Roles of Women Catherine Beecher – educate Grimke’s – Anti-slavery/anti-oppression. *Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Sojourner Truth Mott, Stanton, Anthony – SenecaFalls Convention
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Antislavery Movement Moderate to Radical forms. American Colonization Society – Liberia American Antislavery Movement – Garrison’s Liberator. Liberty Party – end slavery by political/legal means Frederick Douglas – The North Star, Life and Times of Frederick Douglas. Harriet Tubman –Underground Railroad – “Black Moses.”
Antebellum Reforms – 1820-1860 Growing Divisions Abolitionists North vs. South South – “Gag Rule.”