Sample content Week 1 DQ 1 Ideals of Democracy Provide a brief summary, explaining the extent to which reform movements in the 19th century advanced the ideals of democracy. How did artistic movements such as Romanticism and Transcendentalism alter culture during the 19th century by spurring other reform movements? What can we learn, for example, from the literature you read (be specific) to help us understand a historical period that sought to embrace “the common man”? The point to which the reform campaigns in the 19th century progressed the principles of democracy was to inform the public about why upper class and the church in charge of the government ruling was not acceptable. The reform campaigns also presented theories of liberalism, and capitalism to swap the medieval ways of manorialism. The reform campaigns also provide theories of a government by and government for the people, replacing government for and run by the upper class and the church. Such as the results of t