Period 4: 1800-1848 Chapter 15 (16); The Ferment of Reform & Culture 1790-1860

The over-arching theme of Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform & Culture, is that Americans began to recognize problems and began attempts to clean them up. The major areas were religion, temperance (no alcohol), women's rights, and equality. . LEARNING OBJECTIVES - AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO… 1. describe the changes in American religion and their effects on culture and social reform. 2. describe the cause of the most important American reform movement of the period. 3. explain the origins of American feminism and describe its various manifestations. 4. describe the utopian and communitarian experiments of the period. 5. identify the early American achievements in the arts and sciences. 6. analyze the American literary flowering of the early nineteenth century, especially in relation to transcendentalism and other ideas of the time.

IDENTIFY AND/OR STATE THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING 1. Dorothea Dix Robert Owen 2. Stephen Foster Henry David Thoreau 3. James Russell Lowell Herman Melville 4. Neal Dow Charles G. Finney 5. Washington Irving William H. McGuffey 6. Oliver Wendell Holmes Joseph Smith 7. Lucretia Mott Emma Willard 8. James Fenimore Cooper Louis Agassiz 9. William Gilmore Simms Walt Whitman 10. Horace Mann John J. Audubon 11. Peter Cartwright Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 12. Noah Webster William H. Prescott 13. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Gilbert Stuart 14. William Cullen Bryant John Greenleaf Whittier 15. Edgar Allen Poe Francis Parkman 16. Susan B Anthony Brigham Young 17. Ralph Waldo Emerson Phineas T. Barnum 18. Nathaniel Hawthorne Horace Greeley

DESCRIBE AND/OR STATE THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING 37. American Temperance Knickerbocker Group Society Burned-Over District 38. Shakers Declaration of Sentiments 39. Maine Law transcendentalism 40. Unitarianism Millerites 41. 2nd Great Awakening Deism 42. Hudson Rover School Mormons 43. Women’s Rights Convention