Turn in DBQ rewrites

Reminders:

6 primary & 6 secondary sources, annotated due TOMORROW (*email if possible)

Ch 16 Quiz

MulattoesWilliam Lloyd GarrisonFrederick DouglassOverseerNat TurnerAmerican Colonization SocietyBONUS: What was the score of the OU vs. Notre

Dame game on Saturday?

The Ferment of Culture and Reform

Religion / Learning / Reform / Science

Art / Literature /

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Wilderness UtopiasCommunal Living toward a common goal

• Oneida Community in New York…free love / eugenics

Scientific Achievement

Influential scientists• Benjamin Silliman…chemist• John Audubon….birds

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)

Artistic Achievements

New achievements in architecture (Monticello)

Painter: John Trumbull

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

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G) Emily Dickinson

H) Edgar Allen Poe

I) Herman Melville

J)Nathaniel Hawthorne

K)George Bancroft*

National Literature

• Washington Irving…Rip Van Winkle , Legend of Sleepy Hollow

• James Fenimore Cooper….The Last of the Mohicans

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

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

Portrayers of the Past

• George Bancroft …. The Father of American History