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The Shakers
Definition: The shakers were religous communities who believed in God's "dual" personality, and in virgin purity among the sexes.
Explanation: They aimed to attract people who sought to find a retreat from a society penetrated by sin and promoted ideas of spiritual equality, rejection of private property, and "a refuge from the evils of sodom". These values led them to have a significant impact as they attracted more than 5000 settelers. -
American Colonization Society
Description: The American Colonization Society helped support migration back to Africa, the Caribean,or Central America and established outposts such as Liberia. They also promoted ideas of abolition and rights for free black men.
Explanation: Members of the Society believed that the abolition of slavery of slaves would only end once there is no black prescense in the country. As both northerners and southerners agreed that colonization was the only way to rid the nation of slavery. -
Communitarianism
Description: Commmunitarianism called for the equality of all peoples within the community.
Explanation: New Harmony, established by Robert Owen, promoted equality between sexes labor reforms and became advocates for womens rights. Another form of communitariansim sucha s Anarchism promted american individualism to the extreme and called for no economy and law regulation. Both supported freedom of the working class, educational rights and gender equality -
New Harmony
Definition:A community established by Robert Owen that followed communitarian principles
Explanation: New Harmony wanted to create a new world which meant destruction of the gender social norm and advocate for education,labor and womens rights movements. Which prompted the belief of an equal community being successful in the U.S. -
Temperanace Movement
Definition: Movements to limit drinking in the country
Explanaiton:The American Temperance Society directed its efforts to redeeming drunkards. As they would persuade people that drinking was immoral which reduced liquor consumption to half of its level. This prompted hostility as drinking was a custom in the U.S. and people beleived that it was not immoral. -
Perfectionism
Definition: They believed that individuals and society at largs as capable of indefinite improvment in areas such as drinking,literacy, and criminality.
Explanation: These reforms created a vision of a society free from sin and efforts moved into a radical direction. These views led to the Temperance movement, critisim of war and call for immediate and total abolition stemming from religous revitalist preaching and transformative experiences. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
Definition: American Anti-Slavery associaition was a group of abolitionsists taht joined local groups devoted to abolition mostly comprised of northerners.
Explanation:Abolitionists took advantage of the rapid technology development (printing press,education) and spread the ideas of abolition to northerners.Ministers and proganda emerged and money and support emerged from the spread of these moral abolitionists ideas. -
Moral Suasion
Definition: Moral Suasion was wen radical aboltionists adpoted key roles to persuade others.
Explanation: Abolitionists rejected militant forces and adopted roles of social critics to infiltrate the moral evil of slavery. Their langauage was proavtive and calculated to seize public intention which aided them in recruiting a mass movement of abolitionists -
Gentlemen of Property and Standing
Definition:merchants with close comercial ties to the south that disruoted abolitionist meetings.
Explanation: The movement of abolition threathened the profits that arised from slave labor for merchants that work for the south. In response the gentlemen of property and standing violently disrupted abolitionsist meetings and antislavery papers. Their goal was to stop the spread of antislavery across the north. -
Gag Rule
Definition:The gag rule prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipaiton.
Explanation: The gag rule forbade talks of slavery in the house of representatives this happened due to the increase in Anti-Slavery movements that stormed the white house.The rule was repealed in 1844 due to the oppositon of former president John Quincy Adams who was a representative. -
Common Schools
Definition:Tax supported sate school systems that was open to all children
Explanation: Most children had no access to learning at all.The common school was estbalished so taht the public education could restore equalty to the fractured society.Their goal was to help prepare students for work in the new industrial economy.This led to every northern state to have tax supported school sytems for children. This also helped advance educational oppurtunities for women. -
Brook Farm
Definition: Transcendalists established Brook Farm as community where manual and intellectual labor could coexist.
Explanation: Brook farm was created for intellectual settlers that planned everything to the last detail.It was like a miniature university and attracted many peiple who dislaked labor and was a succeful intellectual community. -
Dorthea Dix
Definition: A massachusets schoolteacher she was the leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane.
Explanation:Due to her efforts states constructed mental health hopitals for the insane and the Female Moral Reform was cretead whihc helped prostiutes stop living a life of sin. -
Women's Suffarge
Definition: The movement to enable women to vote and take part in political affairs.
Explanation: Women's voice was severly underrepresented in affairs such as slavery and voting.The seneca falls convention was a meeting that sparked the beginning of the womens rights movement which hoped to obtain equal rights as men. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition: Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel based on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson.
Explanation:Uncle Tom's Cabin was highly succeful and soul more that 1 million copires and the humane portrayal of slaves gave the abolitionist mesage a powerful human appeal further boosting abolitionist ideas across the country. -
Summary
The most significant event from 1820-1840 is the American Anti-Slavery Society.It helped bring abolitionsits together and spread ideas of immediate aboltion through technologies such as the printing press.These affairs led to famous novels such as uncle tom's cabin.The work of women in these affairs led to the increase women suffarage movements.The untied casue of the abolitionists sparked movements of anit-slavery and inspired pacificm,radical,and moralistic thought which eventually led to war.