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Antebellum Reform and Culture

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Chapter #13 - Jacksonian Democracy - Political Reform (CUSP)

Chapter #14 - The Northern World View - The Market Revolution (iTRIP)

Chapter #16 - The Southern World View - Plantation Agriculture (The Power of 50)

Chapter #15 - Religion and Reform

Society, Culture, and Reform 1820-1860

“I know of no country, indeed where the love of money has taken stronger hold of the affections of man than in the United States. Still, man had it in his power to change because he was endowed with an infinite faculty for improvement.”

Alex de Toqueville

Foundations of Antebellum Reform

RELIGION IN AMERICA TIMELINE

Liberalism in religion started in 1800 spawned the 2nd Great Awakening a tidal wave of spiritual fervor that resulted in prison reform, church reform, temperance movement (no alcohol), women’s rights movement, abolition of slavery in 1830's. [Summary of Antebellum Reform]

Contemporary Connections - Revivial?

Camp Meetings and Revivals during the Great Awakening

http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/
Start at Act I Chapter #2 (8:00) ; (25:06)

NOTABLE RELIGIOUS “COME OUTERS”

Millenarianism , Shakers and Mormons

SECULAR (NON-RELIGIOUS) COMMUNAL EXPERIEMENTS

New Harmony (1825 to 1827) and Onieda Community (1848 + )

THE TRANSCENDALISTS

The Transcendentalists saw beauty in nature, but ugliness in a materialistic society full of greed and avarice (excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain)

Image Analysis: Lake Lucerne, 1858

Image Analysis: Snap the Whip, 1862

Temperance movement (no alcohol)

Abolition of slavery in 1830

Women’s rights movement