Purifying the Nation

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Purifying the Nation
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Lyman Beecher

• Drinking was a moral evil.
• Society for the Reformation of Morals and the
  American Society for the promotion of Temperance.
• Maine Anti-liquor law in 1846 much 18th
  Amendment.
• Not a fanatic, but Americans as a whole unwilling
  to accept the sinfulness of liquor.
• 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, yet liquor
  is viewed as public health problem

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Father Theobald Mathew

• Drinking was a moral evil.
• Encouraged people to take pledge of abstinence
  promoted by the teetotal Abstinence Society.
• Administered to 1/2 million people
• Not a fanatic, but had unrealistic hopes for
  American Society.
• 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, yet liquor
  is viewed as public health problem

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Neal Dow

• Drinking was a moral evil.
• Preached on going crusade, particularly in Maine.
• Napoleon of Temperance for his role in passing
  the Maine anti-liquor law.
• Needed to take up boxing to protect himself.
• 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, yet liquor
  is viewed as public health problem

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Dorothea Dix

• The insane were treated as criminals.
• Documented the abuses in Massachusetts.
• Prompted congress to appropriate money for the
  care of the insane. Franklin Pierce veto.
• Used investigative reporting and writing.
• Criminals and the insane were separated and
  almshouses were abolished.

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William Lloyd Garrison.

• Slavery was an evil, immediate abolition.
• Published the The Liberator, founded the American
  Anti-Slavery Society. heinous crime of slavery.
• 13th Amendment.
• Fanatic

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Wendell Phillips

• Slavery was an evil.
• Lectured with Ralph Emerson and Horace Greeley.
• Lectures swayed logical thinkers.
• Fanatic, surrendered his law practice because the
  Constitution condoned slavery.
• 13th Amendment abolished slavery.

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Theodore Weld

• Slavery was an evil.
• Agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Converted a large number of thinkers Lewis
  Tappan.
• Used reasoned approach to slavery.
• 13th Amendment abolished slavery.

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Sara and Angelina Grimke

• Slavery was an evil.
• Presented lectures regarding slavery.
• Created enough controversy to warrant a rebuke by
  the clergy.
• Many considered them to resist the traditional
  role of the proper place for women.

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Frederick Douglass

• Runaway Slave. Slavery was an evil.
• Publisher of the The North Star. Parted company
  with Garrison regarding prejudice in the North.
• Influential - Lincoln.
• Used personal experience with slavery to persuade
  others to call for abolition.

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Harriet Tubman

• Runaway Slave. Slavery was an evil.
• She worked through the Underground Railroad.
• Made 19 trips as a conductor.
• Fame earned her the name Moses of her People.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Slavery was an evil.
• Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.
• Book sold over 300,000 copies. Angered both
  Northerners and Southerners.
• Little Lady who started a great war.

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Elijah Lovejoy

• Slavery was an evil.
• His press in Illinois was repeatedly destroyed.
• Became a martyr when a mob attacked his printing
  press.
• Considered to be a fanatic, by his community.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Spoke out against the inequality of women.
• Organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848,
  Declaration of of the Rights of Women.
• Some limited rights granted over time.
• Considered to be a fanatic by contemporaries.
• 19th Amendment, yet political and economic
  inequities still remain.

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Lucretia Mott

• Criticized war, male domination, slavery and
  drinking.
• Seneca Falls
• Underground Railroad.
• Used practical means to achieve goals.

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Robert Owen.

• Opposed private property, organized religion and
  marriage.
• Established a utopian community in Indiana, 1825.
• Exhausted personal fortune on the the community.
• Community failed because of extreme goals.
• Many others attempted Utopian Societies.

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George Ripley

• Objected to the Evils of competitive economics,
  Panic of 1837.
• Brook Farm near Boston.
• Community attracted well known intellectuals,
  like Hawthorne and Emerson.
• Not realistic
• Society ended because of fire, smallpox and
  bankruptcy.

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John Humphrey Hoyes

• Opposed sin in society.
• Utopian, Putney Vermont and Oneida, New York.
• Economic ventures relatively successful.

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Horace Mann

• Public Education.
• Massachusetts Board of Education, teacher
  training, Common School Journal.
• Increased Teachers Salaries, lengthened the
  school year.
• Shaped public education to what it is today.

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Elihu Burritt

• Opposed war.
• League of Universal Brotherhood.
• Successful in Britain.
• Little lasting impact.

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Dr. Sylvester Graham

• Tobacco, coffee, tea, alcohol.
• Proposed a variety of practice for daily living.
• Boarding house was set up to follow his ideals
  religiously.
• Fanatic
• nutritionalists may accept some of his
  proposals.Graham Crackers