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Communitarianism
A communitarian is a person who plans or lives in cooperative community. The most important communitarian was Robert Owen who was a factory owner. Owen made a factory village which was combined of rules, work discipline, housing, and education. -
American Colonization Society
Organization to encourage colonization of free blacks to Africa; west African nation of Liberia founded in 1822 to serve as homeland for them. -
Perfectionism
The idea that social ills once considered incurable could in fact be eliminated, popularized by the religious revivalism of the nineteenth century. -
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Summary
Uncle Toms Cabin was the most significant event in this time period. This is because the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe sent the message to many people across the country. Over 1 million copies of this antislavery book were sold which mean the information from the book had reached over 1 million people. This meant that people all around were reading from a sympathetic point of view what was happening to slaves. This gave the abolonist message a much more powerful human appeal. -
New Harmony
Robert Owen, purchased the Harmony community in Indiana. The short lived New Harmony Community of Equality was one of the few nineteenth-century communal experiments not based on religious ideology. -
Temperance Movement
A widespread reform movement, led by militant Christians, focused o reduction the use of alcoholic beverages. This was founded to redeem the habitual drunkards. -
Moral Suasion
The abolonist strategy that sought to end slavery by persuading both slaveowners and complicit northerners that the institution was evil. Created during the temperance movement time period. -
Feminism
Term that entered the lexicon in the early twentieth century to describe the movement for full equality for women, in political, social, and personal life. "Women alone will say what freedom they want." -
American Anti Slavery Society
An organization that sought an immediate end to slavery and the establishment of equality for black Americans. IT split in 1840 after disputes about the role if women within the organization and other issues. -
Dorthea Dix
An important figure in increasing the publics awareness of the plight of the mentally ill. After a two year investigation of the treatment of the mentally ill in Massachusetts, she presented her findings and won the support of leading reformers. She eventually convinced twenty states to reform their treatment of the mentally ill. -
Gentlemen of Property and Standing
Well-to-do merchants who often had commercial ties to the south and resisted abolitionism, occasionally inciting violence against its adherents. A Boston crowd led William Lloyd Garrison though the streets with a rope around his neck. He barely escaped with his life. -
Gag Rule
Rule adopted by the House of representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolonist petitions; opposition led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in1844. -
Shakers
The shakers were a religious sect founded by Mother Ann Lee in England. The United Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing settled in Watervliet, New York, in 1774, and subsequently establish eighteen additional communed in the Northeast, Indiana, and Kentucky. The first shaker community was established in upstate New York in 1787. -
Women's Suffrage
Movement to give women the right to vote though a constitutional amendment, spearheaded by Susan B Anthony and Elisabeth Cady Stanton's National Woman Suffrage Association. -
Brook Farm
Transcendentalist commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, populated from 1841 to 1947 principally by writers and other intellectuals. Brook Farm was like a mini university that attracted mainly writers, teachers and ministers. -
Oneida
Oneida was a Utopian community founded in 1848. They were a perfectionist religious group and believed they had achieved a state of complete "purity of heart". They also were known for "complex marriage" which was where any man could propose to any woman who had the right to say yes or no, and this would be put into a public record book. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about antislavery. And to a certain extent it used information from an autobiography written by Josiah Henson. By 1854 over a million copies of the book had been sold.