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COS Standard 11

COS Standard 11. Evaluate the impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct culture. .

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COS Standard 11

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  1. COS Standard 11 Evaluate the impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct culture.

  2. Explaining the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the emergence of a national identity Explaining the emergence of uniquely American writers Examples: James FenimoreCooper, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe Explaining the influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Dix, and Susan B. Anthony on the development of social reform movements prior to the Civil War Chapter 8 Section 2 and 3

  3. Second Great Awakening • American commitment to organized religion is weakened. • Scientific revolution and rationalism • Began in Kentucky on the frontier • Camp meetings • Mainly Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterian • People must readmit God and Christ into their daily lives; all people could attain grace through faith • Charles Grandison Finney

  4. Second Great Awakening continued • Unitarian: Jesus is not God’s son, but a good teacher; God is a unity, not a trinity; stressed goodness of human nature rather than vileness, belief in free will and salvation through good works, God is a stern but loving Father • Universalists: universal salvation of all souls • Mormons: Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints; Joseph Smith; The Book of Mormon

  5. American Writers • Romanticism: feeling over reason, inner spiritually over external rules, nature over environments created by humans • Transcendentalism: overcome the limits of the mind and let their soul reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance (transcendentalism) • Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter • Herman Melville: Moby Dick • Emily Dickinson: American poet • Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Leaves of Grass

  6. American Writers

  7. American Writers: James Fenimore Cooper • The Last of the Mohicans • First American novelist

  8. American Writers: Henry David Thoreau • Walden, Civil Disobedience • Transcendentalist • Fight the pressure to conform

  9. American Writers: Edgar Allan Poe • Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, Fall of the House of Usher • Poet and short story writer • Themes: mystery and terror

  10. Reformers and their Reforms Lyman Beecher • Benevolent societies: combated social problems through God’s word Temperance • limit the amount of alcohol (moderation) • Alcohol can lead to the downfall of man Horace Mann • Father of education • Public education • State board of education

  11. Drunkard’s Progress

  12. Utopia • Perfect society • Communist • Brook Farm • Oneida • Shakers

  13. Reformers: Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Advocated for women’s suffrage • Seneca Falls Convention: wrote the Declaration of Sentiments; all men and women were equal • Launched the modern women’s rights movement • Some changes did happen but overshadowed by slavery

  14. Reformers: Dorothea Dix • Worked to get better care for Mentally ill and imprisoned

  15. Reformers: Susan B. Anthony • Advocate for women’s rights

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