What was the optimistic message of the Second Great Awakening? Explain how this quotation by Henry David Thoreau reflects the philosophy of Transcendentalism: “if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears”

How did Transcendentalism contribute to the spirit of reform?

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b.   jim crow laws were enacted in northern states.

du boi was considered a radical because he wanted the immediate end for segregation. the biggest different between him and booker t. washington is that, even though washington believed that segregation should be considered illegal, he did not believe at all that a law was needed to keep blacks away from whites and that this would be something natural (to have the races apart) for a long time until society adjusted, while du boi believe that agitation was the only way to end segregation.