The Reform

1. The Reform

2. Temperance Movement • How it started? • The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.

3. Temperance Movement • Why it started? • The movement existed in a matrix of unrest and intellectual ferment in which such other social ills as slavery, neglect and ill-treatment of marginalized people, were addressed by liberals and conservatives alike. Sometimes called the First Reform Era, running through the 1830s and '40s, it was a period of inclusive humanitarian reform.

4. Temperance Movement • Who was involved? • The people involved in the Temperance Movement was mostly women, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk. In fact, alcohol was blamed for many of society's demerits

5. Temperance Movement • State wide spread!!! • The first statewide success for the temperance movement was in Maine, which passed a law on June 2, 1851, which served as model for other states. Proponents suggested that it was motivated by a justified concern for the public welfare, but not all agreed.

6. Utopian Movement • What was it? • The Utopian Movement was a time period during American History when people with radical views started to create their own perfect communities. These were called Utopian Colonies, or perfect little communities. However, most of them were unsuccessful and died out after a few years for various reasons. Some examples of these colonies were Brook Farm, New Harmony, and Shakers. • The definition of a utopian colony, according to Robert V. Hine, author of California's Utopian Colonies, "consists of a group of people who are attempting to establish a new social pattern based upon a vision of the ideal society and who have withdrawn themselves from the community at large to embody that vision in experimental form."

7. Utopian Movement • How it started? • The Amana Colonies were one of many utopian colonies established on American soil during the 18th and 19th centuries. There were hundreds of communal utopian experiments in the early United States, and the Shakers alone founded around 20 settlements. While great differences existed between the various utopian communities or colonies, each society shared a common bond in a vision of communal living in a utopian society.

8. Utopian Movement • Origin of the Movement. • The western idea of utopia originates in the ancient world, where legends of an earthly paradise lost to history combined with the human desire to create, or recreate, an ideal society, helped form the utopian idea.

9. Works Cited • Kent, Chancellor. "The Temperance Movement." United States American History. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1054.html>. • "What Was the Utopian Movement." The Q&A Wiki. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_Utopian_Movement>. • "Utopian Societies-The Amana Colonies National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/amana/utopia.htm>.