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Era of Reforms Antebellum Culture

This unit explores the Era of Reforms in the Antebellum culture of the United States, focusing on the impact of the Second Great Awakening and various social movements such as temperance and education reform. It also delves into the rise of transcendentalism and the influence of American romanticism in literature and architecture.

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Era of Reforms Antebellum Culture

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  1. Era of Reforms Antebellum Culture Unit IVC AP United States History

  2. The Second Great AwakeningGrowth and Impact • Protestant revivalism • Reaction to Calvinist/Puritanical doctrine • Emotionalism • Inspired perfectionism • Denominational Growth • Baptists and Methodists • Increase of women in churches • Afro-Christianity • New Denominations • Millennialism • Seventh-Day Adventist Church • Mormonism • Inspired social reform movements • Temperance • Abolitionism

  3. Second Great AwakeningRevivalism • Charles Finney • Free will • Salvation for all • Perfectionism • Revival Meetings • New York’s Burned-Over District

  4. Communal Societies • Brook Farm • Share equally in labor and leisure • Robert Owen’s New Harmony • Utopian socialist • “Village of Cooperation” • Shakers • Common ownership and shared rewards • Strict celibacy • Against vices • “separate but equal” • Oneida Community • “perfectionists” • Married to all • Children raised communally

  5. Reform MovementsTemperance • Social Problems of Alcohol • Organizations • American Temperance Society • Washingtonians

  6. Reform MovementsEducation • Public Education • Massachusetts • Horace Mann • “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.” • “It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.” • “An educated electorate is essential to the working of a free Political system.” • Compulsory education • State-run teacher training programs

  7. Reform MovementsRehabilitation • Dorothea Dix • “Man is not made better by being degraded.” • Prisons and Asylums • Penitentiary System

  8. American Lifestyle

  9. Penny Press • Growth • Steam-powered printing press machines • State-mandated public education • Affordable • Simple vocabulary and diction • Impact • Increased literacy rates • More opinionated American public

  10. Antebellum TheaterMinstrel Shows

  11. Transcendentalism • Stressed intuition/instinct, emotionalism, feelings over reason and logic • Promotion of the Individual • Finding spiritual enlightenment through Nature • Reject materialism, doctrine

  12. Transcendentalism • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance (1841) • “Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.” • The American Scholar (1837) • Despite cultural heritage, instinctive creative genius of individual could lead to greatness • Henry David Thoreau (Walden, On Civil Disobedience) • “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” • Passive resistance • A public refusal to obey unjust laws

  13. Romanticism • Nostalgia • Emotionalism • Glorification of Nature • Sublime • Individualism • Myth and Folklore • Spiritualism Immigrants Crossing the Prairie Albert Bierstadt

  14. Hudson River SchoolThomas Cole, The Voyage of Life

  15. American Architecture U.S. Capitol - c. 1820 Parthenon - Athens New York Customs House - 1842 Pantheon - Rome

  16. American RomanticismLiterature • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper • Tragedy of encroachment of European/American civilization on Natives • Use of nature as a form of developing characters • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne • Satire on America’s puritanical lifestyle and conformity • Sin more as an opportunity for growth rather than a hindrance • Strength of the individual over the community • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville • No matter how much knowledge acquired, no way to fully understand the force of nature • Captain Ahab views Moby-Dick as embodiment of evil and his vengeance leads to his destruction • Edgar Allen Poe • Fear is the strongest emotion • Frowned upon optimism

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