1. Chapter 9 The Quest for Republican Society
How did Americans’ pursuit of republican ideals after the revolution transform the nation into a more egalitarian society?
How did the role of woman change in republican society?
How and when did African Americans create a distinctive society in the South?
Describe the social order of the South?
How did Protestant Christianity act as a force for social change?

2. Voting rights for all free white men
I. Democratic Republicanism A. Social and Political Equality for White Men
Republican Ideology –
Legal equality for all free men – social divisions acceptable if
Some question this
Voting rights for all free white men

3. I. Democratic Republicanism A
I. Democratic Republicanism A. Social and Political Equality for White Men
Republican Ideology –
Power white men
White women and free blacks

4. I. Democratic Republicanism B. Republican Marriage
Republicanism at odds with subordination of women
Paternal authority eroded
“compassionate” marriage
Divorce -

5. I. Democratic Republicanism C. Republican Motherhood
Birthrate declines –
Republican wives and republican mothers

6. I. Democratic Republicanism D
I. Democratic Republicanism D. Raising and Educating Republican Children
Probate Law –
Children – Rich vs. poor
Schooling
Webster’s “black blue speller”
Literature

7. II. Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery B, Toward a new social order
Profound social differences
Great Hope
American Colonization Society?
Slave Trade –
Migration – demand high

9. II. Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery A. N and S grow apart
American Aristocracy?

10. II. Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery C. Slave Society and Culture
American born slave population
Cultural differences disappear

11. II. Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery D. Free Black Population
13%

12. II. Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery E. Missouri Crisis
Tallamadge Amendment – House blocks admission
Missouri Compromise

14. III. Protestant Christianity as a Social Force A
III. Protestant Christianity as a Social Force A. The Second Great Awakening
Spiritual Equality, human ability and free will
South = Baptist and Methodist
Black Christianity and Religious Emotionalism

15. Individual Salvation become linked with social reform
III. Protestant Christianity as a Social Force A. The Second Great Awakening
Individual Salvation become linked with social reform
Religious benevolence

16. III. Protestant Christianity as a Social Force B
III. Protestant Christianity as a Social Force B. Women’s New Religious roles
Become active in religious and charitable work
Excluded elsewhere
Education
School Teachers