Age of Reform

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Map 12.1 Utopian Communities, Mid-Nineteenth Century

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SOCIALISM

Any theories that call for the collective or government ownership of the means of production.

A lot of varieties

COMMUNISM

A theory that calls for the end of private property

A doctrine based on Marxian socialism

A totalitarian government in which a single party controls state-owned means of production.

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Map 12.1 Utopian Communities, Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Shakers

Mother Ann Lee

Against materialism

Second coming of Christ would take the form of a woman

An engraving of a Shaker dance 6

1825 Robert Owens's New Harmony, Indiana

1841 Brook Farm, Mass.

1848 Oneida Community, NY

The Crisis, a publication by the communitarian

Robert Owen

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Age of Reform

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American Temperance Society 1826

The Drunkard’s Progress, an 1826 9

Temperance pledge

Pressured by his determined wife and pleading child, this reluctant tippler is about to submit to "moral suasion" and sign the pledge to abstain from alcohol.

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A German Beer Garden on Sunday

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Horace Mann

Goals: spread uniform cultural values, assimilate immigrants, prepare workforce

This daguerreotype from around 1850

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A rare photograph of an abolitionist meeting in

New York State around 1850.

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American Colonization Society 1817

Blacks and Colonization

A pamphlet issued in 1848 by the American

Colonization Society

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An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World in 1829

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FREDERICK DOUGLAS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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Voices of Freedom pgs 250-254

1. Who is the author? When was it written?

2. Is this a primary source or secondary source?

3. Which reform movement influenced Women’s rights struggle?

4. Which founding father influenced the authors of the Declaration of Sentiments?

5. What is the legal, social, and economic condition of women in the 19th century?

6. What are the key demands, other than the right to vote, put forward by the Seneca Falls Convention?

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Discrimination within the abolition movement began the fight for women’s rights

Angelina Grimke

1848 Seneca Falls, New York Convention

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Declaration of Sentiments

The close association of women’s rights with the fight to end slavery prevent important gains

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