1. CHAPTER 11 Religion and Reform 1800–1860
James A. Henretta
Eric Hinderaker
Rebecca Edwards
Robert O. Self
America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 11
Religion and Reform
1800–1860
Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. 1. Describe the couple in this image. What are they doing
1. Describe the couple in this image. What are they doing? (Answer: On the left is Hannah Roberts and on the right is Lewis Tebbets. They are gazing at one another, holding a book between them. Roberts is holding a handkerchief, Tebbets a bouquet of flowers. They are well-dressed and standing on an ornate floor or rug. They are either about to be married, or in the midst of a wedding.)
2. What does the couple’s stance and position convey about their relationship to one another? (Answer: Roberts and Tebbets are gazing into one another’s eyes, which signifies their love and intimacy. The image suggests that theirs is a union based on love, and not economic expediency. Their common grasp of the book suggests that they share similar values—possibly religious. The fact that his vest matches her dress might also suggest their complementarity and suitability for one another. They might be holding gifts for one another—she is holding the handkerchief she will give to him; he is holding the flowers he will give to her.)

3. I. Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism 1. Transcendentalism 2. The lyceum movement

5. I. Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class
B. Emerson’s Literary Influence 1. Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman 2. Darker Visions 5

6. II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
A. The Utopian Impulse 1. Mother Ann and the Shakers 2. Albert Brisbane and Fourierism

9. II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
A. The Utopian Impulse (cont.)
3. John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida

11. II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
B. Joseph Smith and the Mormon Experience 1. Joseph Smith 2. Brigham Young and Utah 11

14. II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
C. Urban Popular Culture 1. Sex in the City 2. Minstrelsy 3. Immigrant Masses and Nativist Reaction

17. III. Abolitionism
A. Black Social Thought: Uplift, Race Equality, and Rebellion 1. David Walker’s Appeal 2. Nat Turner’s Revolt

21. III. Abolitionism
B. Evangelical Abolitionism 1. William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, and Angelina and Sarah Grimké 2. The American Anti-Slavery Society 21

22. 1. Describe this image. What is presented here
1. Describe this image. What is presented here? (Answer: Pages from an alphabet book dating from the mid-nineteenth century.)
2. Who produced this book? What was the audience for it? (Answer: The book was produced by Quakers for children. It was intended to teach the alphabet but also to teach them about the evils of slavery and the need for abolition.)
3. What are the values and ideology that underlie the messages conveyed in this book? (Answer: The messages are religious, arguing, for example, that the Heavenly Father views black and white people as equals. They are also informed by natural rights ideology—black and white people are fundamentally equal and should have the same rights.)

24. III. Abolitionism
C. Opposition and Internal Conflict 1. Attacks on Abolitionism 2. Internal Divisions

26. IV. The Women’s Rights Movement
A. Origins of the Women’s Movement 1. Moral Reform 2. Improving Prisons, Creating Asylums, Expanding Education

27. IV. The Women’s Rights Movement
B. From Black Rights to Women’s Rights 1. Abolitionist Women 2. Seneca Falls and Beyond 27