RELIGION, ROMANTICISM AND REFORM

Chapter 13

Rational Religion

Deism Unitarianism and Universalism Methodism

Movement began in Anglican Church in England and spread to U.S.

Moved away from Calvinist predestination to an evangelical notion that God wanted all people to be saved

Became the largest Protestant denomination by 1860

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John Wesley

The Second Great Awakening Frontier revivals

Camp meetings Camping and preaching Healing, marriages, baptisms

Charles Finney and the burned-over district New York 100,000 conversions

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Religious revival

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Brigham Young

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THE MORMON TREK, 1830–1851

Romanticism in America

Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David

Thoreau

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Henry David Thoreau

The Flowering of American Literature

Literary giants Newspapers

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Politics in an Oyster House (1848) by Richard Caton Woodville

Education

Early public schools Higher education

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The George Barrell Emerson School, Boston, ca. 1850

Antebellum Reform

Temperance Prisons and asylums

Antebellum Reform

Women’s rights Utopian communities

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.Anthony