Massachusetts was not a center for a philosophical movement.
Before the American Civil War , Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist , temperance , and transcendentalist movements .	American Civil War	American Civil War	abolitionist	abolitionism in the United States	temperance	temperance movement	transcendentalist	transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States .
