Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform

1. Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform

2. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Spirit of Romanticism

3. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse   • Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting • Hudson River School

4. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • An American Literature • James Fenimore Cooper  “In the midst of the awful stillness with which such a burst of feeling, coming as it did, from the two most renowned warriors of that region, was received, Tamenund lifted his voice to disperse the multitude.” - The Last of the Mohicans

5. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • An American Literature • James Fenimore Cooper • Walt Whitman Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman Title Page for Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

6. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • An American Literature • James Fenimore Cooper • Walt Whitman • Herman Melville “Call me Ishmael…” - Moby Dick

7. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Literature in the Antebellum South • Edgar Allan Poe “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” - The Raven Edgar Allen Poe(Portrait Gallery)

8. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Literature in the Antebellum South • Edgar Allan Poe • William Gilmore Simms “The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.” - William Gilmore Simms

9. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Transcendentalists • Ralph Waldo Emerson  A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Transcendentalists • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Thoreau’s Walden "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.” - Walden

11. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Defense of Nature • New Understanding of Nature

12. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Visions of Utopia • Failure of Brook Farm  

13. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Visions of Utopia • Failure of Brook Farm • New Harmony  Plan for the New Harmony Colony(Library of Congress)

14. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Redefining Gender Roles • Redefined Gender Roles 

15. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • Redefining Gender Roles • Redefined Gender Roles  • Commitment to Celibacy

16. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Mormons • Joseph Smith  

17. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Romantic Impulse • The Mormons • Joseph Smith • Utah Founded 

18. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society    • New Reform Efforts

19. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society   • Revivalism, Morality, and Order  • Religious Basis of Reform The Drunkard’s Progress (Library of Congress)

20. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Health, Science, and Phrenology • Cholera Epidemics

21. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Health, Science, and Phrenology • Cholera Epidemics • Phrenology Phrenology (Library of Congress)

22. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Medical Science • Resistance to Scientific Medicine

23. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Education • Horace Mann’s Reforms  Horace Mann (Portrait Gallery)

24. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Education • Horace Mann’s Reforms • Uneven Public Education 

25. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Education • Horace Mann’s Reforms • Uneven Public Education • Soaring Literacy Rates 

26. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Rehabilitation • Dorothea Dix 

27. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • Rehabilitation • Dorothea Dix • Reservation Concept Born The nation has a “moral duty…to protect and if possible to preserve and perpetuate the scattered remnants of the Indian race.” Andrew Jackson

28. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • The Rise of Feminism • “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”   The Declaration of Sentiments(National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior)

29. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • Remaking Society • The Rise of Feminism • “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”  • Feminism’s Secondary Status 

30. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery   • Early Opposition to Slavery • American Colonization Society 

31. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Garrison and Abolitionism • William Lloyd Garrison  “I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard.” - William Lloyd Garrison

32. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Garrison and Abolitionism • William Lloyd Garrison • Garrison’s Revolutionary Philosophy

33. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Black Abolitionists • Frederick Douglass  Frederick Douglass (Portrait Gallery)

34. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Anti-Abolitionism • Violent Reprisals 

35. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Abolitionism Divided • Radicals and Moderates

36. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Abolitionism Divided • Radicals and Moderates • The Amistad Case Amistad Uprising (Library of Congress)

37. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • The Crusade Against Slavery • Abolitionism Divided • Radicals and Moderates • The Amistad Case • Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe(Portrait Gallery) Production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin(Library of Congress)

38. Chapter Twelve:Antebellum Culture and Reform • America in the World • The Abolition of Slavery