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Reminders: 6 primary & 6 secondary sources, annotated due TOMORROW (*email if possible)
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Ch 16 Quiz Mulattoes William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Overseer Nat Turner American Colonization Society BONUS: What was the score of the OU vs. Notre Dame game on Saturday?
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The Ferment of Culture and Reform Religion / Learning / Reform / Science Art / Literature /
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Reviving Religion In 1860 3/4ths of population attended church New Faiths like Unitarians revival meetings during Second Great Awakening to increase parishioners faith Peter Cartwright and Charles G. Finney were two famous circuit riders
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Denominational Diversity New York with the Puritan crowd known as the “burned over district” Religions split over slavery / women’s rights New Religion was Mormons, started by Joseph Smith, led to Utah over Utah Trail by Brigham Young. Utah becomes a state in 1896.
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Free Schools for a Free People Jacksonian Democracy brings about more discussion about tax supported education. Horace Mann was “Father of Public Education” William H. McGuffey readers Noah Webster’s Dictionary
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An Age of Reform Reformers sought to reform tobacco use, alcohol abuse, and other vices Reformers were for abolitionism and women’s rights Debtor’s prisons were abolished Dorothea Dix fought for asylum reform American Peace Society (William Ladd) advocated an end to wars
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Demon Rum The American Temperance Society against alcohol abuse Ten Nights In a Barroom and What I Saw There….temperance novel about Sam Slade’s tavern
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Women in Revolt The purity of women would guide men and the home. Many women viewed this as second class status. Home was the center of a women’s world. Women were not in many occupations. Nursing / teaching and “womanly” roles The Women’s Rights movement was led by Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, (Suzy Bs), Elizabeth Cady Stanton Formed NWSA / AWSA and finally NAWSA
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First Women’s Rights Convention Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention of 1848 Issued Declaration of Sentiments (stated all men and women were created equal)…launched modern women’s rights movement Women demanded suffrage Women’s movement soon took a back seat to abolitionism
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Wilderness Utopias Communal Living toward a common goal Oneida Community in New York…free love / eugenics
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Scientific Achievement Influential scientists Benjamin Silliman…chemist John Audubon….birds
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Medicine before Civil War Deadly diseases Low life expectancy Patent medicines…Robertson’s Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges Home remedies Surgical operations w/o anesthetics (until early 1840s)
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Artistic Achievements New achievements in architecture (Monticello) Painter: John Trumbull
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Write these down & be ready to share your info… A)Washington Irving B)James Fenimore Cooper C)Henry David Thoreau D)Ralph Waldo Emerson E)Walt Whitman F)Louisa May Alcott **Turn in bibs to blue tray G) Emily Dickinson H) Edgar Allen Poe I) Herman Melville J)Nathaniel Hawthorne K)George Bancroft*
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National Literature Washington Irving…Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fenimore Cooper….The Last of the Mohicans
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Trumpeters of Transcendentalism Search for the “inner light” of truth Stressed individualism, self reliance and non-conformity Henry D. Thoreau….Walden or Life In The Woods Ralph Waldo Emerson …Self Reliance Thoreau wrote On Civil Disobedience Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
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Literary Lights Louisa May Alcott…Little Women Emily Dickenson..poet Edgar Allen Poe….The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum Herman Melville …Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne ….The Scarlet Letter
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Portrayers of the Past George Bancroft …. The Father of American History
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