Learn History
To Know Who You Are and who you want to be
The Arts
- Major themes: Nature as well as American conflicts and connections with Nature
- Walt Whitman: Poet, wrote "Leaves of Grass", Father of American Free Verse
- James Audubon: Drew detailed pictures of birds, Studied by naturalists and scientists to learn more about birds
- Mark Twain: writings showed pre-Civil War culture by reflecting the food and language of Southern Culture
- Hudson River School: Painted landscapes
Care for Disabled Reforms
- Dorthea Dix
- Built new Hospitals for the Mentally ill, Deaf, and Blind
- Prisons shift toward rehabilitation
Education Reform
- Horace Mann
- Common School Movement
- leads to Free Public Education
2nd Great Awakening
- Religious Revival
- People gathered in large numbers for worship and to listen to preachers
- Highlighted growing social and regional differences
Women's Rights
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Leader
- Declaration of Sentiments - Written by ECS argues for women's rights
- Seneca Falls - First rally to discuss women's rights
- limited support and success
- Other leaders - Susan B Anthony and Lucretia Mott
- Want right to vote and more education (college)
Workers Rights
- Require factories to provide safe working environments
- Minimum wages
- Maximum working hours
- Maximum days of work per week
- Little support until Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire kills 145
Temperance Movement
- Discouraged the making, selling, and drinking of alcohol
- Supported by women, church groups, and business owners
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