1. Religion and Reform

2. Temperance Neal Dow Carrie Nation Maine Laws
"Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", Dow was born to a Quaker family in Portland, Maine.
believed alcohol to be the cause of many of society's problems and sought to ban it
Carrie Nation
radical member of the temperance movement.
She is remembered for attacking alcohol- serving establishments with an axe
Maine Laws
1851, the state of Maine passed a law banning the sale of alcohol.

3. Prisons
All age groups and variance of criminal housed in the same facility
Dorthea Dix fought for appropriate treatment of the mentally ill
Schools for deaf and blind
Psychiatric Hospitals

4. Abolitionist Movement
Movement to end slavery
William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper
Frederick Douglass
Most influential African abolitionist
Escaped as a slave… later bought his own freedom
Published the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper
Harriet Tubman
Worked as part of the “Underground Railroad”
Was called “Black Moses” for rescuing over 300 slaves

5. Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments
 also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women’s rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca, NY, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.

6. Amelia Bloomer Grimke Sisters Susan B. Anthony
Women’s rights and temperance advocate. In her work with The Lily she became the first woman to own, operate and edit a newspaper for women.
Grimke Sisters
Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké , were the first American female advocates of abolition and women’s rights. They were writers, orators, and educators.
Susan B. Anthony
social reformer and women's rights activist. A Quaker committed to social equality. Abolitionist. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Association.

7. Religion Utopian Communities
defined by Robert V. Hine in California's Utopian Colonies, includes “a group of people who are attempting to establish a new social pattern based upon a vision of the ideal society and who have withdrawn themselves from the community at large to embody that vision in experimental form."
New Zion (New Jerusalem)
refers to any group of people that are unified and "pure in heart“
Latter Day Saints
Navoo, Ill. & Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Shakers
Started in England, offset of the Quakers
Ann Lee: convinced her that she was “mother in Christ.” She taught that God was both male and female; Jesus embodied the male side, while Mother Ann (represented the female side
Male and Female as equals
Eccentric dances and mysticism

8. Mormons Joseph Smith Brigham Young
founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.
Published the Book of Mormon.
attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present.
Brigham Young
religious leader, politician, and settler.
He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints
He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory.

9. Transcendentalism
Believed spiritual discovery and insight could lead to truth
Urged self reliance and acting on one’s own beliefs
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leader of Transcendentalist movement
Launched American Renaissance
Henry David Thoreau
Author of Walden
Protested Mexican War and slavery in the States