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.
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