Reform Movements
By: Logan Robbins
Transcendentalism
The Utopian Movement
The Utopian Movement, in the same spirit as the other reform movements, more than 100,000 American men, women and children between 1820 and 1860 searched for alternative lifestyles.
The Brook Farm Community
Transcendentalist Authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his early writing career he moved with his family and formed a friendship with with the author Herman Melville best known for Moby Dick. During this time, Hawthorne enjoyed his most productive period as a writer publishing The House of Seven Gables, BLithedale Romance and Tanglewood Tales. Then later during the 1852 election, Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography for his college friend Franklin Pierce, when Pierce was elected president he appointed Hawthorne an American Consul a reward.
Noah Webster, he accomplished many things in his life. In 1801, Webster started defining words that AMericans use. lHe did this because Americans spoke and used different words differently than the English, and to help people who lived in different parts of the country to speak and spell the same way.