Transcript Transcentalism - Deer Creek Middle School

Utopia
Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally
perfect state of society, whose members live
the best possible life
Utopian Societies
• New Harmony
Indiana started by
Robert Owen
• Utopian Socialist
community – it failed.
• Oneida, New York
• Utopian Socialist religious
community – it failed.
• Shakers
• Utopian Socialist religious
community – it failed.
(There are less than 7
Shakers in the world today.)
• Mormons
• Non Socialist Religious
Capitalist community –
there are 8 million
Mormons in the U.S.
today!
TRANSCENDENTALISM
JUSTICE
MEDITATE
EQUALITY
LOVE
SIN
BEAUTY
TRUTH
COMMUNE WITH NATURE.
LET YOUR
CONSCIENCE BE YOUR
GUIDE.
RESPONSIBILITY
CONVERSE
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
Charles Finney the Preacher of the
Second Great Awakening.
Lyman Beecher, founder
Temperance Movement
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.
Dorothea Dix
Reformer of Prisons, Mental Hospitals,
and Civil war Nurse.
William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist
Early day abolitionist.
Began abolitionist
newspaper The
Liberator. Founded
the New England
Antislavery Society
and the American
Antislavery Society.
American Colonization Society
LIBERIA
LIBERIA
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.
Frederick Douglass
Runaway Slave, Abolitionist
Speaker, Editor of the North Star.
A little learning, indeed,
may be a dangerous
thing, but the want of
learning is a calamity to
any people.
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.
I didn't know I was a slave
until I found out I couldn't
do the things I wanted.
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.
Man's greatness
consists in his ability
to do and the proper
application of his
powers to things
needed to be done.
I prayed for twenty
years but received no
answer until I prayed
with my legs.
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.
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.
Evils of Slavery
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.
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.
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
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.