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AGE OF REFORM
Chapter 12
Hudson River School
Thomas Cole - View from Mount Holyoke
Asher Durand
Kindred Spirits
Fredrick Church - Niagara Falls
Emergence of True American Literature
James Fennimore Cooper
Leather-Stocking Tales The Deerslayer
Last of the Mohicans
AMERICAN ADAM
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Poems*Raven
*Annabel Lee
*El Dorado
Stories*Black Cat*Cast of Amontillado*Masque of the Red Death*Pit and the Pendulum*Tell Tale Heart* Murders in Rue
Morgue
TRANSCENDENTALISTS
Key to Transcendentalism
Distinction between reason and understanding
One with Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Pond
CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE
*Refused to pay Tax- said would not support a war for slavery
*Action must accompany thought
Who reads Thoreau?
Gandhi M.L. King
Brooks Farm
George Ripley
Oneida Community
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some Works of Hawthorne:
AThe Scarlet Letter
House of the Seven Gables
Blithedale Romance
Mormons
Founder:
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Temperance Crusade
1826 – American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
1851 - Maine
Horace Mann
Education Reform
Reforms:
*Longer school year 6 months*Raise teacher salary*Enrich curriculum*New methods for training teachers – state supported teacher “Normal” colleges
By 1860:
% of children attending some school
North South
72% 33%
Dorothea Dix
Mental Health
& Rehabilitation
Women’s Movement
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Seneca Falls
1848
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
1817- American Colonization Society
William Lloyd
Garrison
The Liberator
David Walker
Appeal … to the Colored Citizens of the World
Frederick Douglas
Elijah P.
Lovejoy
Alton, Illinois Nov. 7, 1837
Harriet Beecher Stowe
