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When people started to believe in millennialism. This was in the 1790s to the early 1800s. It made people have an urgency to redo their society.
Wouldn't let me put a picture in...
George M. "[Millennialist Eschatology Comparison Chart]." The Millennialist Heresy. Refutation of COGwriter.com, Medium, 9 Nov. 2022, https://theopneustos-writer.medium.com/the-millennialist-heresy-d86b5649393f. -
People getting drunk and beating their wives. This lead to the wives wanting freedom, which gave the motivation for the civil war to start.
Currier, Nathaniel. The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave. 1846. Library of Congress -
The study of the cranium. It was in the early 19th century. It was used to back up both sides of the war.
Fowler, O. S. (Editor). The American Phrenological Journal, Vol. X, No. 3, March 1848. Published by Fowlers and Wells, New York. -
Relocating all of the darker skinned people to Africa. It caused debate about what to do with the slaves. Nast, Thomas. "The Same Snap.—‘Reform’ Slavery." Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Sarah E. Chinn, Cambridge University Press, 2024, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/disability-the-body-and-radical-intellectuals-in-the-literature-of-the-civil-war-and-reconstruction/shaking-hands/EA00445C18C974A4D623348608927551. -
This is when people believed that they could go beyond their ordinary senses. It was also about the unity of all people. Which means that all men are equal.
Penny's Poetry Fandom. Retrieved November 24, 2025, from https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Transcendentalism
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Women getting their rights, which women and the slaves were kind of in the same spot. With the women having their rights, it gave courage for the slaves to get their own freedom.
Lillie, L. (n.d.). The First Wave [Sculpture]. Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY. Photograph retrieved from Wikimedia Commons: