I. Second Great Awakening

Revivalism (peak 1824-27)

Charles G. Finney

Rise of African American Churches

Impact of Revivalism on Society

II. Women’s Sphere

Ideals of Domesticity

breadwinner vs. homemaker

Catherine Beecher

III. American Romanticism - clash between Nature and Civilization

James Fenimore Cooper & wilderness

Henry David Thoreau & individualism

Walt Whitman & democracy

Herman Melville & nature’s destructive power

IV. Utopian Communities

New Harmony established 1824

The Shakers

Oneida Community

V. Age of Reform

Temperance Movement

Abolition

American Anti-Slavery Society founded 1833

Congressional gag rule 1836

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman

Frederick Douglass

Women’s Rights Movement

Alcohol Consumption in the United States 1800-1860

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