The Age Of Jackson Is Wrong

The United States of America experienced several reform movements from 1825 to 1850. The reformers sought to improve religion, rehabilitation of criminals and mental patients, education, slavery, and women’s rights. Each demonstrated democratic ideals to the extent that the reformers sought to incorporate the values of liberty and equality into their reform movements to improve the quality of life but did so at the expense and dismay of others.

A democratic society was on the rise and many Americans believed in equality but ignored enslaved African Americans. Government moved out of the houses of rich men and into the houses of the middle and lower- classes; education improved, suffrage laws were enacted, and newspapers were increasingly circulated. The political parties greatly changed; third parties began to rise, four candidates were chosen for one party, and Andrew Jackson lost his first election to John Adams. Adams lost his reelection to Jackson; both of whom created smear campaigns for each other, this improved voter turnout. Jackson represented the common man, throughout his presidency he served

Have you ever remembered the time people against the consumption of alcoholic beverages? It was the temperance movement which began in the early 19th century in order to reduce drunkenness. Nevertheless, the temperance movement promoted government to make the prohibition in the society. Citizens were not allowed to drink the alcohol and banned the alcoholic affected America to maintain their social harmony. Moreover, citizens especially the drinkers’ children developed more slowly and they were more liable to the accident so that the temperance movement can easily educate the alcoholics. For these reasons, the temperance movement should be justified as the most influential event in the U.S. History.

The Temperance Movement in Antebellum America was one of the largest moral reforms of in 1800s. Several members of the community fought for the prohibition of alcohol, rather than just limiting the about being consumed. However, “many farmers argued that the society and its desire to eradicate King Alcohol—as temperance advocates often termed alcoholic beverages—were a scheme to deprive the people of their liberty." Starting with main in the 1851, twelve states and territories outlawed the consumptions of alcohol. Temperance leaders came about and the movement created many different temperance groups that later used an assortment of tactics and persuasion to get their points across such as political, art, and even education. “During the first great wave of temperance protest lasting from the 1830s through the 1850s, working-class radicals and union organizers had urged temperance as necessary to both self-improvement and resistance to workplace oppression.”

Socially, reformers brought along the temperance movement, which limited the use of alcohol in the society. Reformers believed that alcohol would lead to the loss of money, family and the mind. In the social cartoon, “The Drunkard’s Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave,” the illustrator shows the general public what goes on after the first glass of alcohol has been drunk (Doc 6). Reformers hoped that such artwork as this would bring

In addition, another way the activists for the temperance movement sought to share their grievances toward this fatal drink was through the portrayal of how much alcohol abuses affect others (outside evidence). Whether it be in the home or in the workhouse, alcoholics are dangers to everyone - including

Andrew Jackson first had a military career that evolved into a political career in the Age of Jackson. The Age of Jackson is an accurate characterization of the era between 1815 and 1845, because Jackson dominated the political sphere in the US. He was the dominant political figure that was almost as influential and as representative as Martin Van Buren. Van Buren was the only politician that could challenge Andrew Jackson in politics, because Jackson’s characterization embodied the views held in the first 40 years of the early 1800s.

In 1849, the Daughters of Temperance, created by Susan B. Anthony, was formed. These few enterprising women referred to alcohol as “The Unclean Thing” and began one of the many quests for Prohibition. They strove to shut down saloons or at least regulate their hours, closing on Sundays, the day of rest, in order to protect their families and their finances from the horrors of men under the influence.6 However, this proved to be a difficult endeavor because by 1875, one third of the total federal revenue was a result of the manufacturing, purchasing, and distribution of alcohol.7 The multiple Prohibition groups that had sprung up by this time did indeed recognize that their goal of “destroying the demand of the consumer” of alcohol related items would jeopardize over one thousand million dollars worth of income, without compensating those who would become indebted by their proposition. Supporters of the temperance movement then realized that their efforts must be extended beyond the realm of the church in order for them to achieve their arduous goal on a national level.8

One major movement in the 19th century that grew from the Second Great Awakening was the Temperance Movement, a movement that would later lead to the 18th amendment which prohibited the sale and brewing of alcohol and ushered in the Prohibition Era. According to Lyman Beecher, in his sermon “A Reformation of Morals Practicable and Indispensable,” the excessive drinking of alcohol “will produce neither bodies nor minds like those which were the offspring of temperance and virtue.” This statement regarding temperance is just a small part of his larger viewpoint in the sermon, which focused on how we as Americans need to return to a more faithful society(Doc 1)(POV). This message would echo through the United States and turn many people against alcohol. In John Warner Barber’s “The Drunkard’s Progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness & ruin,” Barber is depicting to families of possible drunkards the downward spiral of alcohol addiction that is most likely occurring in their households. Barber uses bible

Early on, women took the lead in the prison reform and temperance movement. Those movements quickly led to a growing abolitionist movement, under the leadership of Emma Willard, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt led all reform movements in energy and ambition. Although their “Declaration of Rights of Women” failed to gain women the right to vote, the momentum led to a change in many state laws regarding women’s issues. Although the abolition of slavery was not successful, William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe became wildly successful in gathering support. Idealistic communes such as found in New Harmony, Brook Farm, and Nauvoo spread the message reform, peace, and self-reliance for those seeking religious freedom. Since most of the incarcerated were the poor, this period of the “common man” sought to rectify all such moral ills. The reformers sought to equalize the social classes by providing a free and better education for the poor. This cause, espoused by Horace Mann and others, was instrumental in sparking the frame of education which would spread though the Untied States like wildfire. The populist movement comprised mainly of farmers met to discuss reform for the common agriculturalist. And although the immigrants fought against fierce prejudice from the nativists, they too found changes in public schools and modernized

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States in the 1830s. Some parts of Jackson’s presidency were not as well thought as they should be and were not as effective it the progression of our country. I do not agree with the way he handled the Indians by the Indian Removal Act, and I think he made the wrong decision by getting rid of the National Bank.

One of the earliest forms of social reform movements in the 1800’s was the temperance movement against alcoholic drinks. Advocates battled to rid their states of alcohol for years. Many reformers believed that alcohol contributed to domestic abuse, poverty, crime, unemployment, and homelessness. Soon, temperance advocates wanted to ban alcohol entirely. In 1851, Maine finally became the first state to ban

As a 11 year old girl, I felt left out and craving their attention. Sanders felt guilty for his father’s alcoholism “I tell myself he drinks to ease an ache that gnaws at his belly, an ache I must have caused by disappointing him somehow…, “ (242). He feels he needs to be perfect to prevent his father from indulging drinks, as I feel I need to be perfect for my parents in order to get their attention. I feel as if it is my fault they were in this predicament with my brother. My anxiety grew as I was only trying to understand what I could do to make things better and comprehend how they are

By the 1820s, the average American was drinking the equivalent of seventy gallons of beer a year, due to both a lack of safe drinking water and of few other options.(Meredith) Even though it originated out of necessity, this excessive drinking outraged and shocked a portion of the U.S. population. This began the Temperance movement, where many campaigned to minimize alcohol consumption. Doctors objected to drinking alcohol on medical grounds, because excessive drinking lead to cirrhosis of the liver.(Meredith) Ministers claimed that it damaged moral behavior. Many mothers and wives were outraged with their husbands and sons for going to saloons or bars and drinking the family money away.(Burns and Novick) These groups believed temperance, and eventually, prohibition, would fix these problems. The Temperance movement gained traction in the United States and whipped the nation into a fervor. This lead to the passing of the 18th Amendment, beginning what we know as

During the 19th century, women did not have many rights at all, so when their already demanding husbands would lose coherence as a result of drinking, the women would get the brute end the stick and hand (WQLN). Found in The Drunkards Home by S.F Cary illustrates the brutality of a drunken man to his family (Cary). Stemming from this was the effect on the self, the individual. By the 19th century drinking had begun at such a young age where drinking in high excess was completely normal (WQLN). However, as Brinkley mentions, Evangelical Protestants, and later reformists such as the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance and the Washington Temperance Society sought out prohibition for the purpose of safety and security for the United States of America (Brinkley, 327). The country could no further progress with a beer in hand, but they could with assistance from these groups especially the Protestants, through religious revivals, prayer and action (Brinkley). The Antebellum Era is only the beginning of this reform, but the Protestants helped ignite this issue to a blaze of controversy for later years