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Communitarianism
Communitarian is someone who lives in a cooperating and social community. One of the most impactful communitarians was Robert Owen, also known as a hard working factory owner. -
American Colonization Society
An organization that was created to encourage to colonize the blacks in Africa to free them. West African Nation of Liberia was actually founded in 1822 to serve as a homeland for them. -
Perfectionism
The ideology of social ills that once considered incurable, could now be eliminated, or even popularized by the religious revivalism of the nineteenth century. -
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Summary
Uncle Toms Cabin was the most significant thing that happened in this time period. The written novel was sent to many people around the country. Millions of copies of this book were sold, which meant the ideology and theme reached millions of people. This had meant that many people were seeing another perspective and seeing this sympathetic side of things. This gave the abolonist message a much more powerful human appeal. -
New Harmony
Robert Owen, the same guy for Communitarianism, purchased the New Harmony community in Indiana. The Community of Equality was one of the few nineteenth century communal experiments not based on religious ideas. -
Moral Suasion
The strategy of abolonist that lead to the end of slavery by persuading both slaveowners and complicit northerners that the institution was evil. This was created during the temperance movement time period. -
Temperance Movement
A reform movement led by militant Christians, focused on reduction the use of alcoholic beverages. -
Feminism
A widely known term that was discovered in the early twentieth century to describe the movement of full equality for women in society. -
American Anti Slavery Society
An organization that sought an immediate end to slavery and the establishment of equality for black Americans. It ended in 1840 when they split because of disputes about the roles of women in the organization. -
Dorthea Dix
A person that is very significant to the increasing awareness of the plight of the mentally ill. After an investigation of the mentally ill, she presented her findings and won the support of leading reformers. -
Gentlemen of Property and Standing
Merchants who often had commercial ties to the south and resisted abolitionism. A Boston crown led William Lloyd Garrison through the streets with a rope around his neck, and barely escaped. -
Gag Rule
Rule created by the House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolish petitions. Led by former president John Quincy Adams. -
Women's Suffrage
A movement to give women the right to vote through a constitutional amendment. -
Shakers
The Shakers were a religious section founded by Mother Ann Lee in England. The first shaker community was established in upstate New York in 1787. -
Brook Farm
Transcendentalist commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, populated from 1841 to 1947 principally by writers and other intellectuals. This was somewhat like a small university that was for writers, teachers, and even ministers. -
Oneida
Oneida was a Utopian community founded in 1848. They were known as a religious group that believed that they had achieved a state of complete "purity of heart." -
Uncle Toms Cabin
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about antislavery. To a certain extent it used information from an autobiography written by Josiah Henson.