REFORMS AND REFORMERS

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

• Refused to pay $1 tax to vote
• Didn't want money to support Mexican War
• American Poet, author , and Philospher
• He wrote about nature
• He was a lifelong Abolitionist

HORACE MANN

• He was a lawyer.
• He became the head of Massachusetts' board of education.
• He had developed better ways of training teachers.
• Partly help support the nation's first normal schools.
• Won apporval to build public schools

THOMAS GALLUDET

• He developed a method to educate people who were hearing impaired.
• He open a school for the deaf in 1817 and was located in Connecticut
• He was an American pioneer
• He became a minister at 13

DR. SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE

• He advanced the cause of those who were visually impaired.
• He developed books with large raised letters.
• Howe headed the Perkins a school for the blind in Boston.
• Went to Boston latin School

UTOPIAS

• Men and woman wanted to expand nation's ideals of liberties
• They believed they should live under the noble goals
• Some reforms decided to sought to improve society by forming Utopias.
• Utopias are communities based on a version of a perfect society.
• A few of the Utopian communities lasted more than a few years

HIGHER EDUCATION

• New colleges were created during the age of reform
• Most only admitted men
• higher education became available to groups
• These came to people who were denied before
• The first college open to blacks was in Pennsylvania

PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

• Some reformers focused teaching people with disabilities
• Dorothea Dix was a school teacher and was visiting prisons in 1841
• She learned that some were mentally ill and some were guilty of no crime
• Some were hung by the wall
• Dix educated everyone including the blind

WHO WERE THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS?

• The american spirit of reform influenced transcendentalists
• They stressed the relation ship between humans and nature
• Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo, and Henry David Thoreau were leading transcendentalists
• Fuller supported rights for woman.
• Thomas went to jail rather than pay a one dollar tax fee

AMERICAN WRITERS EMERGE

• Poets were important just as transcendentalists were.
• Many poets created inspiration poems about americans
• the most important poet was Walt Whitham
• He wrote a volume of poetry
• Whitman loved nature and American democracy.