The Golden Age

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The Golden Age
Religious revivals
Inspired reform
Second Great Awakening
Horace Mann- govt. funded education
John James Audubon
Birds of America
Reform Movements
Art and Literature
Abolitionist Movement
ART
Education Reform
End to slavery
Mental Health Reform
Hudson River School
Ban on drinking of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Doretha Dix-better treatment of the mental ill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Founded by Thomas Cole
Art inspired by nature
LITERATURE
Prison Reform
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Eliza Farnham-better prison conditions