Utopia Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect
state of society, whose members live the best possible life Slide 2
Utopian Societies New Harmony Indiana started by Robert Owen
Oneida, New York Shakers Mormons Socialist Utopian Socialist
community it failed. Socialist Utopian Socialist religious
community it failed. Socialist Utopian Socialist religious
community it failed. (There are less than 7 Shakers in the world
today.) Capitalist Non Socialist Religious Capitalist community
there are 8 million Mormons in the U.S. today! Slide 3
TRANSCENDENTALISM TRUTH JUSTICE SIN EQUALITY LOVE BEAUTY
RESPONSIBILITY LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE. COMMUNE WITH
NATURE. MEDITATE CONVERSE Slide 4 EARTH-SONG ' Mine and yours;
Mine, not yours. Earth endures; Stars abide-- Shine down in the old
sea; Old are the shores; But where are old men? I who have seen
much, Such have I never seen. -Emerson Henry David Thoreau Ralph
Waldo Emerson Slide 5 Charles Finney the Preacher of the Second
Great Awakening. Slide 6 Lyman Beecher, founder Temperance Movement
Slide 7 Horace Mann SCHOOL REFORM Educational reformer. Lengthened
school day, school year, modernized school curriculum, trained
teachers, doubled teacher salaries. Began modern system of schools
with Grades K-12. Called for States to fund Public Schools. Slide 8
Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix Reformer of Prisons, Mental Hospitals,
and Civil war Nurse. Slide 9 William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist
Early day abolitionist. Began abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.
Founded the New England Antislavery Society and the American
Antislavery Society. Slide 10 American Colonization Society LIBERIA
LIBERIA Slide 11 Grimke Sisters, Abolitionists Shall we say
beautiful where it counts in your heart. Sarah and Angelina Grimke.
Born as slaveholders. Became strong Abolitionists. Wrote American
Slavery As It Is. Slide 12 Frederick Douglass Runaway Slave,
Abolitionist Speaker, Editor of the North Star. Slide 13 I am a
Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never
intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and
progress. I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't
do the things I wanted. I prayed for twenty years but received no
answer until I prayed with my legs. If there is no struggle, there
is no progress. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It
violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. A little learning, indeed,
may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to
any people. Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the
proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Slide
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