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Creating an American Culture

Creating an American Culture. Antebellum Culture and Reform. Based upon: Romanticism (all people have good inside) Desire for traditional values (order and stability). Cultural Nationalism. Movements sprang up all over the nation with particular flowering in the North

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Creating an American Culture

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  1. Creating an American Culture

  2. Antebellum Culture and Reform Based upon: Romanticism (all people have good inside) Desire for traditional values (order and stability)

  3. Cultural Nationalism • Movements sprang up all over the nation with particular flowering in the North • Movements were inter-related

  4. Education and Professionalism • Inspired by Romantic ideals • Universal public education • Horace Mann • Differed by region • Imposing social values on students

  5. Revivalism • Began with Second Great Awakening • Charles Grandison Finney • Protestant values • Intertwined with other movements

  6. Utopian Experiments • Brook Farm (Ripley) • Self-realization • Equal labor, equal leisure • Early socialist system • Ended within 3 years • New Harmony (Owen) • Mormons and Oneida Community

  7. Brook Farm

  8. Transcendentalists • New England philosophers and writers • Emerson and Thoreau • Inspired many of the reform movements THOREAU EMERSON

  9. National Literature, Art, Architecture • Emphasized nature • First great American novelist, James Fennimore Cooper • Walt Whitman’s poetry • Herman Melville • Edgar Allan Poe

  10. Reform Crusades • Feminism • Seneca Falls, Stanton, Mott • Abolitionism • Garrison’s Liberator • Frederick Douglass • Became dominant movement • Temperance • Criminals and the Insane • Dorothea Dix

  11. Temperance Cartoon

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