Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840 #4 Flashcards
Second Great Awakening
Speak to everyone affected by Market Revolution
Individual/Communal redemption
Perfect in society and god’s eyes
hard-work=success
Mormons/Utopian society
Mormons
unorthodox
move West
Reform movement periods
1830/1840s
2nd Great Awakening
1900/1910s
Populist/Progressive
1960/1970s
Civil Rights
Temperance in the 1840s
Only Maine
Part of daily life
Nativism
German/Irish immigrants
Factory owners + politicians want
worker output
Asylum Penitentiary Movement
Mentally ill= criminals
Women help mentally ill
Horace Mann
1840/1850s
Public education
Essential for Democratic government
Transcendentalism
Spiritual/Intellectual
Thoreau
Emerson
Not reform or mainstream
Abolitionism
Minority Whites
Huge impact
David Walker
pamphlet
resist slavery!
WIlliam Lloyd Garrison
Immediate emancipation
The Liberator
The Liberator
1830s
Will Lloyd Garrison
Most anti-slavery movements
gradual
already-slaves will remain slaves
Lovejoy Incident– abolitionist killed
Liberty Party
Abolitionists
1840
Anti-slavery was in the Constitution
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist
born into slavery
learn to read and write
powerful speaker
Southern defense of slavery
Northern “wage slaves”
It was in bible etc.
Women in antebellum society
intellectually inferior
Cult of domesticity
Femme Covert
give everything to husband when married
Seneca Falls Convention
First Feminist movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
issued a Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence
“Burned over district”
West NY during 2nd GA
because of frequent “hell and brimstone” revivals
Baptists and Methodists
Convert South and on the frontier
Largest protestant denominations
Peter Cartwright
Methodist converter
2nd GA
Emerson
not to imitate European culture
Challenge materialism
Nature
supported various reforms
anti-slavery
Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
Didn’t pay tax cuz didn’t believe in war w/ Mexico
Brook Farm
Transcendentalist farm
bad fire, heavy debts
innovative school for sons and daughters of NE elites
Shakers
ascetic life
women and men separate
New Harmony
Utopian
Secular
Oneida
“free love”
orgies
Hudson River school
Celebrate America beauty
Architecture
adopt classic Greek styles
columns
after War of 1812 Literature
Nationalistic
Disappointment with religion/social expectations
prisons
more to repent
solitary confinement
high suicide rate–> fail
McGuffey reader
set standard
Protestant
hard work
punctuality
sobriety
emerging industrial society
Catholics –> private schools
Higher education
prodded by 2nd GA
American Colonization Society
Send freed slaves to Africa
Liberia
phrenology
study of the skull
racist as hell
Nat Turner
retaliation: hundreds of Blacks killed
set precedence for Southern violence against Blacks
lyceum lectures
spread and popularize knowledge
Emerson’s American Scholar
Americans should work for cultural autonomy
Who would NOT have supported the Whigs Southern advocates of nullification Northern temperance reformers Anti-Masons Irish immigrants
Irish immigrants (Catholic)
Antebellum farmers
hard to make enough $$ to buy own farms
Newspapers became popular in the early 1800s
Printing press
penny novels
Force Bill
use arms to collect customs duties
from Nullification crisis
