Chapter 13 - The Reform Impulse

Walden

Walden

________- Higher laws to guide humans.

Transcendentalism

________- Idealism + eastern mysticism.

Civil War

________- In charge of female nurses.

Lyceums

________- Public lecture halls for education + debate.

Amendment

11th ________- State are sovereign + can not be sued by citizens of other states.

Deseret

________- Colony in Valley of the Great Salt Lake.

Religious reforms

________- Transcendentalism, Unitarianism, Lyceum.

1843

Presented findings to Massachusetts legislature

Civil War

In charge of female nurses

1848

Meeting @ New York

"The Declaration of Sentiments"

Womens suffrage

1832

President of Lane Theological Seminary

American citizens

Require education + Christian teachings

1837

Begins in Massachusetts

1837

Massachusetts State Board of Education

1836

First published

1833

Founded by missionaries

1835

Professor @ Oberlin College

Camp meetings

Fervent preaching + softened hearts

Missionary preachers

Different church each week

1851

Secured by Neal S. Dow

Constitution

Outlawed production + sale of alcohol

Lyceums

Public lecture halls for education + debate

1819

Franz Joseph Gall publishes research

1841-1847

Tried creating perfect society

1774

Founded by Mother Ann Lee

1840

Peak membership

1848

Founded by John Humphrey Noyes in NY

Transcendentalism

Idealism + eastern mysticism

1841

Publishes 1st essays

Walden

Higher laws to guide humans

"Civil Disobedience"

Passive resistance

1830

Book of Mormon

Burned-Over District

Garnered followers (Mormons)

1847

Head of Mormons

Deseret

Colony in Valley of the Great Salt Lake

1850

Settlement recognized as Utah Territory

1826

Founded by Joseph Smith

Age of Jackson

Humanitarian reforms + political advancement

Reforms

Prohibition, mentally ill, women, slavery

Religion + education

Common school movement + university

Religious reforms

Transcendentalism, Unitarianism, Lyceum

Utopia

Mormonism

12th Amendment

President + VP run on same ticket

11th Amendment

State are sovereign + cannot be sued by citizens of other states

Dorothea Dix

An American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums

Seneca Falls Convention

The first women's rights convention in the United States that launched the women's suffrage movement

Lyman Beecher

A Presbyterian minister, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures

Common School Movement

The effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, and is thus heralded as the start of systematic public schooling in the United States

Horace Mann

An American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education

McGuffey Readers

Widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century

Oberlin College

the first college in America to adopt a policy to admit black students (1835) and the first to grant bachelor's degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program

Second Great Awakening

A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States

Charles G. Finney

An American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States

Circuit-Riding Preachers

Rode from church to church — or from place of worship to place of worship — on horseback

Maine Law

The first statutory implementation of the developing temperance movement in the United States

Temperance Movement

Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor

Lyceum Movement

Led by voluntary local associations that gave people an opportunity to hear debates and lectures on topics of current interest

Hudson River School

The first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England

Phrenology

A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties

Brook Farm

A utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s

Shakers

A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century

Henry David Thoreau

A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state

Joseph Smith

An American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement

Brigham Young

Succeeded founder Joseph Smith as the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847

Mormonism

The doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon