1. In this series of videos we will not look specifically at how the early Industrial Revolution transformed antebellum America but rather focus more on how Americans reacted to these changes, some embracing them and others rejecting them. We will look at things like art, literature and religion, among others.

2. By the end of the antebellum age you begin to see the development of a full-fledged American literature

3. Early steam-powered press meant more books published and increased literacy

4. Unitarianism

5. Transcendentalism

6. Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Henry David Thoreau

8. Walden Pond

9. Walt Whitman

10. Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle

11. James Fenimore Cooper and the Last of the Mohicans (recently remade into a movie starring Daniel Day Lewis)

12. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter (recently remade into a movie starring Demi Moore)

13. Herman Melville and Moby Dick

14. The antebellum Industrial Revolution led to a celebration of the natural world with the growth of landscape painters

15. Portrait painting typical of earlier periods

16. Typical landscape painting depicting nature as mystic and beautiful

19. “Picturesque”

20. “Garden Park”

21. “Claude Glass”

22. “Sublime”

23. Thomas Cole

24. Course of Empire” #1

25. #2

26. #3

27. #4

28. #5

30. Brook Farm

31. George Ripley

33. Shaker Movement

34. Shaker Founder: Ann Lee

35. Shaker Commune

36. Shakers: God as duel person, male and female

37. Oneida Community

38. John Humphrey Noyes

39. Doctrine of “Complex Marriage”

42. Joseph Smith

44. Early Mormon converts

45. Mormon temple, Nauvoo, IL

48. Brigham Young

49. Mormon migration westward

51. Mormon temple, Salt Lake City, Utah

53. Mormon alphabet

54. In the antebellum industrial age as intellectuals and writers stressed different options for society – different and alternative lifestyles – others stressed active reform of society. They decided to stay inside the existing industrial society and try to change or mold it to improve it.

55. Women’s rights were a major focus for some antebellum reformers

58. New York Female Reform Society, which later expanded into the American Female Reform Society

60. Soon many women began to focus on America’s social institutions – most notably asylums, hospitals and jails

61. Dorothea Dix

62. Education reform

63. Horace Mann

64. Early Normal School

65. Catharine Beecher

66. Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Beecher

67. Oberlin College in Ohio was first college to accept women

68. Of course many women soon focused on gaining political and economic rights, the beginning of a long struggle for equality. Here is shown a cartoon depicting women running a court trial

69. Margaret Fuller and Woman in the Nineteenth Century

72. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (young and old)

73. Susan B. Anthony (young and old)

74. Connection between disease and natural world

75. Sylvester Graham

76. Sylvester Graham’s crackers

77. Beginnings of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine

78. The presumed healing power of hot spring waters led to a number of resorts