Period 4: 1800-1848
Chapter 15 (16); The Ferment of Reform & Culture 1790-1860
The over-arching theme of Chapter 15,The Ferment of Reform & Culture, is that Americans began to recognize problems and began attempts to clean them up. The major areas were religion, temperance (no alcohol), women's rights, and equality.
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Learning Objectives - After reading this chapter, you should be able to…
1.describe the changes in American religion and their effects on culture and social reform.
2.describe the cause of the most important American reform movement of the period.
3.explain the origins of American feminism and describe its various manifestations.
4.describe the utopian and communitarian experiments of the period.
5.identify the early American achievements in the arts and sciences.
6.analyze the American literary flowering of the early nineteenth century, especially in relation to transcendentalism and other ideas of the time.
Identify and/or State the Historical Significance of the following
1.Dorothea Dix
2.Stephen Foster
3.James Russell Lowell
4.Neal Dow
5.Washington Irving
6.Oliver Wendell Holmes
7.Lucretia Mott
8.James Fenimore Cooper
9.William Gilmore Simms
10.Horace Mann
11.Peter Cartwright
12.Noah Webster
13.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14.William Cullen Bryant
15.Edgar Allen Poe
16.Susan B Anthony
17.Ralph Waldo Emerson
18.Nathaniel Hawthorne
19.Robert Owen
20.Henry David Thoreau
21.Herman Melville
22.Charles G. Finney
23.William H. McGuffey
24.Joseph Smith
25.Emma Willard
26.Louis Agassiz
27.Walt Whitman
28.John J. Audubon
29.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
30.William H. Prescott
31.Gilbert Stuart
32.John Greenleaf Whittier
33.Francis Parkman
34.Brigham Young
35.Phineas T. Barnum
36.Horace Greeley
Describe and/or State the Historical Significance of the following
37.American Temperance Society
38.Shakers
39.Maine Law
40.Unitarianism
41.2nd Great Awakening
42.Hudson Rover School
43.Women’s Rights Convention
44.Knickerbocker Group
45.Burned-Over District
46.Declaration of Sentiments
47.transcendentalism
48.Millerites
49.Deism
50.Mormons