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| CHAPTER 13 | AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: RELIGION, ROMANTICISM, AND REFORM | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1800 |
Second Great Awakening begins |
| 1821 |
First free public secondary school opened |
| 1826 |
American Unitarian Association formed |
| 1830 |
Mormon church founded |
| 1833 |
American Temperance Society founded |
| 1833 |
American Temperance Union formed |
| 1837 |
Emerson’s “The American Scholar” |
| 1847 |
Mormons arrived at Salt Lake |
| 1848 |
Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights |
| 1848 |
Oneida Community started |
| 1849 |
Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” |
| 1850 |
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter |
| 1851 |
Melville’s Moby-Dick |
| 1854 |
Thoreau’s Walden |
| 1855 |
Whitman’s Leaves of Grass |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe the religious denominations developed after the Enlightenment.
- Account for the Second Great Awakening and trace its impact on society.
- Understand the nature of Transcendentalism and describe its impact on the
intellectual life of the United States.
- Appreciate the major literary figures of the antebellum period and portray
their contributions.
- Assess the stirrings for improvement in education.
- Explain the impetus for reform and show its manifestations in temperance,
prisons, asylums, and women’s rights.
- Account for the movement for utopian communities and describe significant
examples.
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