Chapter 13 - The Reform Impulse

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Walden
________- Higher laws to guide humans.
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Transcendentalism
________- Idealism + eastern mysticism.
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Civil War
________- In charge of female nurses.
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Lyceums
________- Public lecture halls for education + debate.
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Amendment
11th ________- State are sovereign + can not be sued by citizens of other states.
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Deseret
________- Colony in Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
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Religious reforms
________- Transcendentalism, Unitarianism, Lyceum.
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1843
Presented findings to Massachusetts legislature
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Civil War
In charge of female nurses
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1848
Meeting @ New York
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"The Declaration of Sentiments"
Womens suffrage
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1832
President of Lane Theological Seminary
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American citizens
Require education + Christian teachings
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1837
Begins in Massachusetts
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1837
Massachusetts State Board of Education
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1836
First published
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1833
Founded by missionaries
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1835
Professor @ Oberlin College
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Camp meetings
Fervent preaching + softened hearts
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Missionary preachers
Different church each week
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1851
Secured by Neal S. Dow
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Constitution
Outlawed production + sale of alcohol
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Lyceums
Public lecture halls for education + debate
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1819
Franz Joseph Gall publishes research
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1841-1847
Tried creating perfect society
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1774
Founded by Mother Ann Lee
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1840
Peak membership
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1848
Founded by John Humphrey Noyes in NY
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Transcendentalism
Idealism + eastern mysticism
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1841
Publishes 1st essays
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Walden
Higher laws to guide humans
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"Civil Disobedience"
Passive resistance
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1830
Book of Mormon
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Burned-Over District
Garnered followers (Mormons)
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1847
Head of Mormons
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Deseret
Colony in Valley of the Great Salt Lake
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1850
Settlement recognized as Utah Territory
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1826
Founded by Joseph Smith
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Age of Jackson
Humanitarian reforms + political advancement
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Reforms
Prohibition, mentally ill, women, slavery
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Religion + education
Common school movement + university
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Religious reforms
Transcendentalism, Unitarianism, Lyceum
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Utopia
Mormonism
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12th Amendment
President + VP run on same ticket
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11th Amendment
State are sovereign + cannot be sued by citizens of other states
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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
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Seneca Falls Convention
The first women's rights convention in the United States that launched the women's suffrage movement
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Lyman Beecher
A Presbyterian minister, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures
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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
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Horace Mann
An American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education
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McGuffey Readers
Widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century
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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
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Second Great Awakening
A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
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Charles G. Finney
An American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States
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Circuit-Riding Preachers
Rode from church to church — or from place of worship to place of worship — on horseback
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Maine Law
The first statutory implementation of the developing temperance movement in the United States
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Temperance Movement
Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor
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Lyceum Movement
Led by voluntary local associations that gave people an opportunity to hear debates and lectures on topics of current interest
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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
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Phrenology
A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
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Brook Farm
A utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s
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Shakers
A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
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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
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Joseph Smith
An American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement
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Brigham Young
Succeeded founder Joseph Smith as the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847
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Mormonism
The doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon