America’s HistoryEighth Edition

America: A Concise HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 11Religion and Reform

1800–1860

Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

James A. HenrettaEric Hinderaker

Rebecca EdwardsRobert O. Self

I. Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism

1. Transcendentalism

2. The lyceum movement

B. Emerson’s Literary Influence

1. Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman

2. Darker Visions

I. Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class

II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture

A. The Utopian Impulse

1. Mother Ann and the Shakers

2. Albert Brisbane and Fourierism

A. The Utopian Impulse (cont.)

3. John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida

II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture

B. Joseph Smith and the Mormon Experience

1. Joseph Smith

2. Brigham Young and Utah

II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture

C. Urban Popular Culture

1. Sex in the City

2. Minstrelsy

3. Immigrant Masses and Nativist Reaction

II. Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture

III. Abolitionism

A. Black Social Thought: Uplift, Race Equality, and Rebellion

1. David Walker’s Appeal

2. Nat Turner’s Revolt

III. Abolitionism

B. Evangelical Abolitionism

1. William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, and Angelina and Sarah Grimké

2. The American Anti-Slavery Society

III. Abolitionism

C. Opposition and Internal Conflict

1. Attacks on Abolitionism

2. Internal Divisions

IV. The Women’s Rights Movement

A. Origins of the Women’s Movement

1. Moral Reform

2. Improving Prisons, Creating Asylums, Expanding Education

IV. The Women’s Rights Movement

B. From Black Rights to Women’s Rights

1. Abolitionist Women

2. Seneca Falls and Beyond