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Industrial Revolution
Along with social reforms, tecnological reforms were occuring as well as the change from hand production led to machine production, creating more comodities much cheaper, allowing goods to reach families and social classes that otherwise would not have been able to offord such comodities. -
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Reform Movements of the 19th century
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Ralf Waldo Emerson
The best known transcendentalist writer of the 19th century. His essays and lectures expressed the individualistic mood of the period.
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Temprance Movement
Protostant ministers and others began to adrees the severity of alcohol consumption. These ministers asked converts to not only moderate their drink but to exclude it entirely -
Willaim Loyd Garrisions The Liberator
Mark the begining of the radical abolitionist movement. The uncompromising Garrison advocate immediate abolition of slavery in every state and territory without comensating slave holders. -
Horace Mann and Education reform
Horace Mann was the main advocator for the educational reform where public school were opened in the hopes of improving the numbers of the uneducated in America -
Dorothea Dix and her crusade for mental health institutions
Dorothea Dix began advocating for the mentally ill, by founding mental health institutions across the nation. -
Seneca Falls Convention