the age of reform 1820-1860 social reform section 1 chapter 14

The Age of Reform1820-1860

Social Reform

Section 1

Chapter 14

The Reforming Spirit• New Harmony, Indiana---est. by Robert Owen

– A village dedicated to cooperation rather then competition among its members

– Utopian society

• The Religious Influence

– The 2nd Great Awakening—wave of religious fervor---Charles Finney preached at revivals

– Revivals spring up all over where people listen to eloquent preachers, prayed, sang, wept, and shouted!!!!

• War Against Alcohol

– Temperance Movement was a push for little or no alcohol

– The Temperance movement

gained a major victory in

1851 when Maine passed

a law banning the

manufacturing and

sale of alcohol

Reforming Education• In the early 1800s the New England region

provided for free elementary education• Horace Mann was a leader in educational

reform– Made school 6 months– Changed school curriculum– Doubled teaching salaries– Developed was to teach teachers

• The first state funded normal school was founded in 1839---School for teaching teachers

• Many parents keep their daughters out of school– They believed that a women's primary role was

as a wife and mother which did not require an education

– When they did go to school they are taught music and needlework

• Higher Education (College)– Religious Groups founded the most colleges in

the 1820s -1850s– Oberlin College of Ohio was the first to admit

both women and African Americans

• People with Special Needs

– Thomas Gallaudet developed a method for education the hearing impaired

– Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe invented a way for visually impaired people to read

– Dorothea Dix---School teacher who helped reform attitudes toward the mentally ill

Cultural Trends• Transcendentalists

– Stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience.

• American Writers– Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe

• American Poets– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman,

Emily Dickenson

• Most Successful book injustice of slavery– Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

By the 1850s, when girls did go to school, they often studied

A. mathematics

B. history

C. music or needlework

D. science

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The first college in the United States to admit women and African Americans was

A. Harvard

B. Mount Holyoke

C. Ashmun Institute

D. Oberlin College of Ohio


Who was the schoolteacher who helped reform attitudes toward the mentally ill?

A. Dorothea Dix

B. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe

C. George Catlin

D. Thomas Gallaudet


People who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the

importance of the individual conscience were called

A. Naturalists

B. Transcendentalists

C. Reformers

D. Conscience-raisers


What writer wrote about the injustice of slavery?

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Herman Melville

C. Harriet Beecher Stowe

D. Washington Irving


The time period that saw a raise in Religious Fervor

A. Transcendentalism

B. Second Great Awakening

C. Catholicism

D. Immigration


Which of the following was a poet.

A. Horace Mann

B. Charles Finney

C. Dorothea Dix

D. Walt Whitman


Who was a leader of educational reform

A. Horace Mann

B. Charles Finney

C. Walt Whitman

D. Dorothea Dix


This guy preached at revivals

A. Horace Mann

B. Walt Whitman

C. Charles Finney

D. George Catlin


New Harmony, Indiana is an example of an attempt to form this type of society.

A. Utopia

B. Boomtown

C. Booze town

D. Religious town


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