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America: A Narrative History, Brief 9e
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
Chapter 2: Britain and Its Colonies
Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
Chapter 6: Shaping a Federal Union
Chapter 7: The Federalist Era
Chapter 8: The Early Republic
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Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Growth
Chapter 10: Nationalism and Sectionalism
Chapter 11: The Jacksonian Era
Chapter 12: The Old South
Chapter 13: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
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Chapter 14: An Empire in the West
Chapter 15: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 16: The War of the Union
Chapter 17: Reconstruction: North and South
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Chapter 18: Big Business and Organized Labor
Chapter 19: The South and the West Transformed
Chapter 20: The Emergence of Urban America
Chapter 21: Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Reform
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Chapter 22: Seizing an American Empire
Chapter 23: "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era
Chapter 24: America and the Great War
Chapter 25: An "Epoch of Confusion": the 1920s
Chapter 26: Republican Resurgence and Decline
Chapter 27: The New Deal America
Chapter 28: The Second World War
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Chapter 29: The Fair Deal and Containment
Chapter 30: The 1950s: Affluence and the Atomic Age
Chapter 31: New Frontiers: Political and Social Change in the 1960s
Chapter 32: Rebellion and Reaction: the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 33: A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
Chapter 34: America in a New Millenium
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Chapter 13
Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
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I. Rational religion
A. The concept of mission in the American character
B. The development of Deism
1. Roots in rationalism and Calvinism
2. Nature of the beliefs
C. The development of Unitarianism
1. Nature of the beliefs
2. Role of William Ellery Channing
3. Creation of American Unitarian Association
D. The development of Universalism
1. Role of John Murray
2. Nature of the beliefs
3. Comparison with Unitarianism
II. The Second Great Awakening
A. Origins of the revival movement
1. Fears of secularism
B. The frontier phase of revivalism
1. Frontier reception of the revivals
2. Emergence of the Presbyterians
3. Role of the Baptists
4. The Methodists’ impact
5. Appeal to African Americans
6. Spread of revivals on the frontier
7. The camp meeting
8. Women and revivalism
C. Revivals in upstate New York
1. Role of Charles Grandison Finney
2. Connection to Oberlin College
D. The rise of the Mormons
1. Role of Joseph Smith
2. Characteristics of the church and its members
3. Persecution of Mormons
4. Role of Brigham Young
5. The move to Utah
III. Romanticism in America
A. Nature of the Romantic revolt
B. Transcendentalism as a Romantic expression
1. Nature of transcendentalism
2. The Transcendental Club and its members
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Henry David Thoreau
5. The impact of transcendentalism
IV. The flowering of American literature
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Herman Melville
E. Walt Whitman
F. The popular press
1. Impact of advances in printing technology
2. Proliferation of newspapers
V. Education
A. Level of literacy
B. Early public schools
1. Rising demand for public schools in the 1830s
2. Role of Horace Mann in Massachusetts
3. Leadership of North Carolina in the South
4. Limited progress before the Civil War
C. Developments in higher education
1. Post-Revolutionary surge in college formation
2. State vs. religious colleges
a. Conflicts over funding and curriculum
3. Slow growth of technical education
D. Education for women
VI. Movements for reform
A. Roots of reform
B. Temperance
1. Heavy consumption of alcohol in the United States
2. Arguments for temperance
3. Early efforts at reform
4. The American Temperance Union
C. Prison reform
1. Growth of public institutions to treat social ills
2. Prevention and rehabilitation versus punishment for crime
3. Auburn prison system
D. Reform in treatment of the insane
1. Early state institutions for the insane
2. Work of Dorothea Dix
E. Crusade for women’s rights
1. Catharine Beecher and the cult of domesticity
2. Development of domestic role for women
3. Subordinate status of women in the antebellum period
4. Seneca Falls (1848) and subsequent conventions
5. Limited successes
6. Limited job opportunities for educated women
F. Utopian communities
1. Proliferation of utopian communities
2. Nature of the Shaker communities
3. Development and contributions of the Oneida Community
4. Robert Owen and New Harmony
5. The importance of Brook Farm
6. The decline of utopia
VII. Anti-slavery movements
A. Early opposition to slavery
1. Establishment of the American Colonization Society
2. Establishment of Liberia
B. The movement toward abolition
1. William Lloyd Garrison’s call for immediate emancipation
2. The
Liberator
C. Creation of the American Anti-Slavery Society
D. The anti-slavery movement split
1. Garrison and the radical wing demand comprehensive societal reforms
2. Others want to focus only on slavery
3. Showdown in 1840 over women’s rights
4. Garrisonians win the right of women to participate
5. New Yorkers group and Liberty party break away
E. Black anti-slavery advocates
1. Conflicts over the right of blacks to participate in anti-slavery activities
2. Former slaves who became public speakers
a. Frederick Douglass
b. Sojourner Truth
VIII. Reactions to abolitionism
A. Pro-slavery mob kills Elijah Lovejoy
B. The “gag rule“ in Congress
C. Development of the Liberty party (1840)
D. Defenses of slavery
1. Biblical arguments
2. Inferiority of blacks
3. Practical considerations
4. George Fitzhugh’s comparison to northern wage slavery