Utopia

1. Utopia Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of society, whose members live the best possible life

2. Utopian Societies • New Harmony Indiana started by Robert Owen • Oneida, New York • Shakers • Mormons • Utopian Socialist community – it failed. • Utopian Socialist religious community – it failed. • Utopian Socialist religious community – it failed. (There are less than 7 Shakers in the world today.) • Non Socialist Religious Capitalist community – there are 8 million Mormons in the U.S. today!

3. TRANSCENDENTALISM LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE. COMMUNE WITH NATURE. TRUTH EQUALITY JUSTICE LOVE SIN BEAUTY RESPONSIBILITY MEDITATE CONVERSE

4. Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson 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

5. Charles Finney the Preacher of theSecond Great Awakening.

6. Lyman Beecher, founderTemperance Movement

7. Horace Mann SCHOOL REFORM Educational reformer. Lengthenedschool 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.

8. Dorothea Dix Reformer of Prisons, Mental Hospitals, and Civil war Nurse.

9. William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist Early day abolitionist. Began abolitionist newspaper The Liberator. Founded the New England Antislavery Society and the American Antislavery Society.

10. American Colonization Society LIBERIA LIBERIA

11. Grimke Sisters, Abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Born as slaveholders. Became strong Abolitionists. Wrote American Slavery As It Is. Shall we say… beautiful where it counts… in your heart.

12. Frederick Douglass Runaway Slave, Abolitionist Speaker, Editor of the North Star.

13. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. What to the Slave is the 4th of July. 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. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

14. Sojourner Truth Born a slave in New York, real name Isabella 'Belle" Baumfree. Upon being granted her freedom when New York made slavery illegal in 1827 she began to travel and speak out against slavery. She chose the name Sojourner Truth meaning on the journey of God's Truth. I was to travel up and down the land showing people their sins and being a sign unto them.

15. Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people. Known as Grandma Moses. Former slave who was a member of the Underground Railroad that led thousands of slaves to freedom in the North or Canada.

16. Evils of Slavery

17. Lucretia Mott, Women’s Rights • Quaker from Philadelphia. • Lectured for Temperance, Peace, Workers Rights, and Abolition. • Joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to begin the Women's Rights movement. If our principles are right, why should we be cowards? Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

18. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Abolitionist who working with Lucretia Mott organized the Senaca Falls Convention in Senaca Falls, New York. • Brought all Abolitionists, and reformers together to speak about women's rights and suffrage. • At the Convention the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was written modeled on the Declaration of Independence.

19. Susan B. Anthony @ the Seneca Falls Convention Suffrage • Quaker Abolitionist • Equal pay for women, • College training for girls • Coeducation • Began Daughters of Temperance. Co-education

20. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls 1848 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a absolution. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Declaration of Independence When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.