Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Introduction Introduction  Romanticism  Order and Control 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Romantic Impulse The Romantic Impulse  National Cultural Aspirations –Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting  Hudson River School –Literature and the Quest for Liberation  Cooper and the American Wilderness  Herman Melville 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Title Page for Whitman’s Leaves of Grass 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Romantic Impulse The Romantic Impulse –Literature in the Antebellum South  Southern Romanticism –The Transcendentalists  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Thoreau and Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Henry David Thoreau (Library of Congress)

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Romantic Impulse The Romantic Impulse –The Defense of Nature –Visions of Utopia  Brook Farm  New Harmony 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Plan for the New Harmony Colony (Library of Congress)

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Romantic Impulse The Romantic Impulse –Redefining Gender Roles  Redefined Gender Roles at the Oneida Community  The Shakers –The Mormons  Joseph Smith  Establishment of Salt Lake City 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society  New Reform Movements –Revivalism, Morality, and Order  Revivalism in the Burned-Over District  Finney’s Doctrine of Personal Regeneration –The Temperance Crusade  American Society for the Promotion of Temperance  Cultural Divisions over Alcohol 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Drunkard’s Progress (Library of Congress) 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society –Health Fads and Phrenology  Phrenology –Medical Science  Discovery of Contagion Phrenology (Library of Congress) 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society –Reforming Education  Horace Mann’s Reforms  Rapid Growth of Public Education  Achievements of Educational Reform  The Benevolent Empire 11 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Horace Mann (Portrait Gallery)

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society –Rehabilitation  The Asylum Movement  Prison Reform 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society –The Indian Reservation The nation has a “moral duty…to protect and if possible to preserve and perpetuate the scattered remnants of the Indian race.” Andrew Jackson 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Remaking Society Remaking Society –The Rise of Feminism  Reform Movements and the Rise of Feminism  Seneca Falls  Limited Progress for Women The Declaration of Sentiments (National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior) 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Crusade Against Slavery The Crusade Against Slavery –Early Opposition to Slavery  American Colonization Society  Failure of Colonization –Garrison and Abolitionism  Garrison and the Liberator  American Antislavery Society 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Crusade Against Slavery The Crusade Against Slavery –Black Abolitionists  Free Blacks’ Commitment to Abolition to Abolition  Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (Portrait Gallery) 16 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Crusade Against Slavery The Crusade Against Slavery –Anti-Abolitionism  Violent Reprisals Anti-Abolitionist Violence (Library of Congress) 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Crusade Against Slavery The Crusade Against Slavery –Abolitionism Divided  Moderates versus Extremists  The Amistad Case  Harriet Beecher Stowe  Abolitionism’s Enduring Influence Harriet Beecher Stowe (Portrait Gallery) 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform Patterns of Popular Culture: Sentimental Novels 20 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.