The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 1860

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Chapter 15

• The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 - 1860

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Second Great Awakening

• Deism relied on science over the bible
• Supreme being no trinity
• Led to Unitarianism
• Charles Finney evangelist
• Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders
• Burned-Over District Hellfire Puritans -
  Adventists

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Mormons

• Joseph Smiths Golden plates translated into the
  Book of Mormon
• Militia, polygamy, murder of Smith
• Moses of the Mormons Brigham Young Led them
  to Utah
• Anti-polygamy laws in 1862 1882

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• Tax-supported Schools
• Difference between lickin and learning
• readin, ritin, rithmetic
• Demon Rum Problems with liquor
• American Temperance Society
• T.S. Arthurs Ten Nights in a Barroom
• Neal Dow Father of Prohibition
• Rights for Women
• Mott, Liz Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony

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• Seneca Falls Womans Rights Convention
• Utopias escaping Society
• Brook Farm brotherly cooperation
• Robert Owen and New Harmony
• Oneida Community
• Free Love, birth control, and eugenics
• Oneida silverware?

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Literature

• Washington Irving
• Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy
  Hollow
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Transcendentalism Truth transcend the senses.
  Searching for inner-truth
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau Walden
• Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

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Literary Dissenters

• Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
• Herman Melville Moby Dick