This document discusses the Age of Reform in the early-to-mid 19th century United States. It describes the Second Great Awakening religious revivalism that led to the formation of missionary and benevolent societies. It also discusses the institutional reforms of this time period including the establishment of free public education, colleges, adult education programs, and special institutions for the deaf, blind, and mentally ill. Finally, it outlines the radical reform movements of this era such as abolitionism, women's rights, and utopian communities.

1. ~Age of Reform~
Dr. Romero

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I. Second great Awakening (1800-1850)
South – cane ridge, Kentucky (1801)
North-Revivalism turns to reform
 Missionary & Benevolent Societies
American bible society
Temperance society
II. Institutional reform
Free public education
 Goals
 Horace Mann
 Better textbooks
 Better training

3.  College education
 Adult education/lyceums
 Special
institutions
 Deaf- Thomas Galludet
 Blind- Samuel
Gridley Howe
 Insane-Dorothea Dix
 Prison/criminal
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punishment
III. Radical Reform
Abolition movement
 5th amendment

4.  American colonization society (1817)
Liberia
 Abolitionists
Radicals-William Lloyd Garrison
Quaker Influence
The liberator
Moderates-Theodore Dwight Weld
Black abolitionists-Fredrick Douglas
 Women’ s rights movements
slavery
Issues
Slavery
2nd class citizenship (divorce, children)
Property

5. Seneca Falls (1848)
 Utopian Communities
European roots
Types
Secular
Non-secular
Examples-
Ann Lee-Shakers
Robert Owen- New Harmony
Charles Fourier-phalanxes
 Literature-transcendentalism
 Fads &
Fashions
 1) Bloomers
 2) Phrenology
 3) Vegetarianism
 4) Seances

6. Seneca Falls (1848)
 Utopian Communities
European roots
Types
Secular
Non-secular
Examples-
Ann Lee-Shakers
Robert Owen- New Harmony
Charles Fourier-phalanxes
 Literature-transcendentalism
 Fads &
Fashions
 1) Bloomers
 2) Phrenology
 3) Vegetarianism
 4) Seances