Age of Reform (jan 1, 1800 – jan 1, 1848)

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Dorothy Dix and Mental Health Treatment


Education Reform
- benefits of public education:
- instill republican values. discipline, hard
work
- basic skills
- Americanize immigrants
- Horace Mann
- Sec. of Mass. Board of Education
- reforms:
- longer school terms
- compulsory attendance
- expanded curriculum
- more schools
- NORTH BENEFITTED MORE FROM EDUCATION
REFORMS
- slaves cannot learn to read or write


Temperance Movement
- USA drinking problems
- reasons to fix this:
- factory system needed efficient labor
- family life
- seen as immigrant issue
- American Temperance Society (1826)
- urged members to stop drinking
- used propaganda
- temperance -> prohibition


Women's Movement
- democratization did not apply to women
- "Cult of Domesticity"
- "Republican Motherhood"
- Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- "Declaration of Sentiments"
- launched movement


Transcendentalism
- Truth transcends the senses and every person
possesses an inner light to illuminate the
highest truth
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- stresses self reliance, self improvement,
and freedom
- The American Scholar (1837)
- Henry David Thoreau


Utopian Communities
- various movements to move away from
conventional society and create a utopian
community
- Mormons
- Brook Farm (transcendentalist experiment)
- New Harmony (socialist aligning)

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