Antebellum Culture and Reform

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Antebellum Culture and Reform

• Chapter 12

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Romantic Impulse

• Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting

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• Literature and the Quest for Liberation
• First American Writers
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Walt Whitman
• Herman Melville
• Edgar Allen Poe

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• Literature and the Antebellum South
• Transcendentalists

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• Transcendentalists Contd
• Individualism rested the distinction between
  reason and understanding

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• Visions of Utopia
• transcendentalism sparked communal living
  experiments

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• Redefining Gender Roles
• Margaret Fuller
• Oneida Perfectionists
• The Shakers

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• The Mormons
• Josesph Smith

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Remaking Society

• Two Separate Schools

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• The Temperance Crusade
• connected to the revival of Evangelical
  Protestantism

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Fake Smile

• Health
• Cholera

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• Reforming Education
• Massachusetts and Thomas Mann

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• Rehabilitation
• asylums
• Indian Reservation
• Indians live sheltered from white society

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• The Rise of Feminism
• Women played major role
• Social standards for women of Antebellum America
• 1848 Seneca Falls, New York
• Womens rights convention

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The Crusade against Slavery

• Early Opposition to Slavery

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• William Lloyd Garrison
• founded the newspaper Liberator
• Black Abolitionists
• 1850 250,000 free blacks in the North

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• Black Abolitionists Contd
• lived in conditions of poverty and oppression
  often worse than southern slaves

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• Black Abolitionists Contd
• Frederick Douglass

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• Anti-Abolitionism
• feared abolitionism would produce a destructive
  war between sections

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• Abolitionism Divided
• Amistad