Reform Movement
By: McKinzee Lambert
Transcendentalism
*Urged people to transcend, or overcome, the limits of their minds and let their souls reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe
Utopian Movement
more then 10,000 americans in the 1830's concluded that the world around then had corrupted human nature. They decided that the solution was to move away and find a place where they could start a prefect place called a utopia or, ideal society. They only got people with the same region or family values.
Brook Farm Community
Brook farm was a community of people who guarantee the greatest freedom, and to prepare a society for the world, cultivated persons, whose relations with each other would permit a more wholesome and simpler life than could be led amid the pressure of competitive institutions.
Transcendentalist Authors
Edgar Allen Poe
*he wrote "The Raven"
* he brought Horror and things people didn't really think about to life. You could image you was right in the middle of he story when you read he poems. You could feel and see the horror and terror behind his weird and twisted mind.
Alexis de Tocqueville
* he wrote New World
* he showed the world democratic order using americans as he example. He traveled the world watching other people and showed then what a new world would look like.
James Fenimore Cooper
* he wrote The Last of the Mohicans
* he felt that one man should be a equal as another man. He felt that one nation couldn't take or should be allowed to take another nation of natives land to give to someone who didn't deserve it.