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