Essay on 16 ReforminAmerica

Submitted By Nisha-Trammell
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Reform in 19th Century
America
“The world we have created today has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
Key Points
Brook Farm
The Ideas for Reform
The Temperance Movement
The Anti-slavery Movement

Radical Reforms &
Reformers
 Utopianism
 What is a utopia?
 What did they redefine?
 The Zenith – 1820s-1840s
 The Societies
 Onieda (Perfectionists)
 John Humphrey Noyes

 Brook Farm (1841-1847)
 George Ripley

 Owenities (New Harmony, IL)
 Fourierists
 Llano De Rio
 Celebration, FL

Radical Reforms &
Reformers

 Religion
 The sects

 Mormons
 Joseph Smith

 The Quakers
 George Fox

 The Shakers
 Mother Ann Lee

 Unitarianism
 “the religion of Jesus, not

a religion about Jesus”
 Millerites (Adventists)
 William Miller

The Ideas for Reform
 Sources
 The Republican Ideals of in the

Declaration of Independence.
 Enlightenment Philosophy
 Humanism & Rationalism

 The 2nd Great Awakening
 Literature
 Transcendentalism
 Romanticism

 The People
 The __________- __________.

The Ideas for Reform
The Principles
 Local Relief no longer enough to

help.
 Man is innately good.
 Moral Dogmatism

The Movements
 The Original - Temperance
 What is Temperance? In the 1800’s, American males drank
 The Drinking Man
 An American Problem?!?!?
 Alcohol = Aqua Vitae

 Education

enough absolute alcohol to supply every man, woman, & child with at least 5 gallons of absolute alcohol per year.

 The