whig party: supported by centers of Market Revolution and NE evangelicals, Norther Cities and Towns, urban elite, native-born factory workers. Wanted government to develop economy, called for moral regulation, and bible based schools. [Think of these guys as the new Federalists.]
Horace Mann: Whig reformer that created advanced, expensive, centralized state school systems, believed schools' main purpose was character building and whig protestant culture, trained kids to respect authority.
American anti-slavery society: formed by abolitionists, demanded the rights for blacks, staged a series of campaigns to force the government to face problem of slavery.
New York Herald:Whig supported publication. Claimed that a person that "quietly attends to his business" and is still morally acceptable, will rise in society, while someone who makes a fuss will end up in prison.
Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist and women's rights activist, famous speech: "Ain't I a woman?" delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's rights Convention.
Auburn System: prisoners slept in solitary cells, factory work, military style, lived in complete silence
George Bancroft: Radical Democrat from Massachusetts, wanted to get rid of social class because a true republic didn't have it. Thought government control benefited insiders only. Wary of government improvements.
William Seward: Whig governor of New York, supported transportation projects because they broke down neighborhood isolation and developed Market Society, which fostered morality, piety and knowledge.
Philadelphia System:Prison system that put solitary prisoners into cells to contemplate their misdeeds and plot a new life. Led to few reformations and many suicide attempts.
Native American Party: In 1844, with endorsement of the whigs, won the New York City elections. American Nativist party that was anti-immigrant, originally the American Republican Party.
Female Moral Reform Society: set up by reformers from failed NY Magdalen society. Taught prostitutes morality and household skills. Tried to convert them to evangelical middle class. Effort failed.
Dorthea Dix: Boston humanitarian, leading advocate of humane treatment of the mentally ill. Stressed rehabilitation not punishment. Patients would not be abused or yelled at.
New York Magdalen Society: 1828 a band of Sunday school teachers initiated an informal mission to prostitutes, grew into the New York Magdalen Society.
American Temperance Society: established in Boston in 1826, contributed to a reform sentiment, promoted abolition of slavery, expanding women's rights, temperance and the improvement of society.
The Advocate of Moral Reform: The newspaper of the Female Moral Reform Society. Circulated through the evangelical North, reaching 555 auxiliary societies, 20,000 readers.
Washington Temperance Society: Six drunk guys were converted to temperance. It started a National movement in which members were generally working class, nonreligious, and rejected politics and legislation. Collapsed toward the end of the 1840s.
Sarah Grimke: abolitionist writer and suffragist. Reached conclusion that they were human beings first and women second. Cited the bible for support of female equality.
American Colonization Society: only organized opponent to slavery before 1831. Led by wealthy, conservative Northern Churchmen. Proposed sending free blacks to West Africa.
Women's Rights Convention: met in Seneca Falls, NY 1848. Held ties to anti slavery. Only male delegate was Frederick Douglas. Most attendees were white women. Demands for equality based on moral and legal arguments and on the spirit of republican institutions.
The Liberator: The newspaper published by radical abolitionists and women's rights leader William Lloyd Garrison. First example of radical abolitionism, Northern culture.
William Lloyd Garrison: publisher of The Liberator. Condemned slavery as a national sin and demanded immediate emancipation, or a start towards emancipation.
Fifteen-Gallon Law: Massachusetts's sort-lived law that prohibited purchases of hard liquor in quantities less than fifteen gallons. Made to discourage gathering at bars. Bar tenders and drinkers found a way around prohibitory laws
Daniel Webster: -- self-made Whig, used as an example to prove that good people would rise in society and only mean-spirited, lazy people would doubt an activist government.
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