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Chapter Twelve:
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Chapter Twelve: Antebellum Culture and Reform
The Romantic Impulse The Spirit of Romanticism
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The Romantic Impulse Nationalism and Romanticism in American
Painting Hudson River School
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The Romantic Impulse An American Literature
James Fenimore Cooper
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“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
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The Romantic Impulse An American Literature
James Fenimore Cooper Walt Whitman
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Title Page for Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
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The Romantic Impulse An American Literature
James Fenimore Cooper Walt Whitman Herman Melville
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“Call me Ishmael…”
- Moby Dick
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The Romantic Impulse Literature in the Antebellum South
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allen Poe (Portrait Gallery)
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
- The Raven
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The Romantic Impulse Literature in the Antebellum South
Edgar Allan Poe William Gilmore Simms
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“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
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The Romantic Impulse The Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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The Romantic Impulse The Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson Thoreau’s Walden
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"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.”- Walden
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The Romantic Impulse The Defense of Nature
New Understanding of Nature
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The Romantic Impulse Visions of Utopia
Failure of Brook Farm
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The Romantic Impulse Visions of Utopia
Failure of Brook Farm New Harmony
Plan for the New
Harmony Colony (Library of Congress)
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The Romantic Impulse Redefining Gender Roles
Redefined Gender Roles
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The Romantic Impulse Redefining Gender Roles
Redefined Gender Roles Commitment to Celibacy
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The Romantic Impulse The Mormons
Joseph Smith
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The Romantic Impulse The Mormons
Joseph Smith Utah Founded
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Remaking Society New Reform Efforts
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Remaking Society Revivalism, Morality, and Order
Religious Basis of Reform
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The Drunkard’s Progress
(Library of Congress)
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Remaking Society Health, Science, and Phrenology
Cholera Epidemics
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Remaking Society Health, Science, and Phrenology
Cholera Epidemics Phrenology
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Phrenology (Library of Congress)
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Remaking Society Medical Science
Resistance to Scientific Medicine
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Remaking Society Education
Horace Mann’s Reforms
Horace Mann (Portrait Gallery)
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Remaking Society Education
Horace Mann’s Reforms Uneven Public Education
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Remaking Society Education
Horace Mann’s Reforms Uneven Public Education Soaring Literacy Rates
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Remaking Society Rehabilitation
Dorothea Dix
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Remaking Society Rehabilitation
Dorothea Dix Reservation Concept Born
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The nation has a “moral duty…to protect and if possible to preserve and perpetuate the scattered remnants of the Indian race.”
Andrew Jackson
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Remaking Society The Rise of Feminism
“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”
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The Declaration of Sentiments (National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior)
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Remaking Society The Rise of Feminism
“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” Feminism’s Secondary Status
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The Crusade Against Slavery Early Opposition to Slavery
American Colonization Society
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The Crusade Against Slavery Garrison and Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
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“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
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The Crusade Against Slavery Garrison and Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison Garrison’s Revolutionary Philosophy
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The Crusade Against Slavery Black Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass (Portrait Gallery)
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The Crusade Against Slavery Anti-Abolitionism
Violent Reprisals
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The Crusade Against Slavery Abolitionism Divided
Radicals and Moderates
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The Crusade Against Slavery Abolitionism Divided
Radicals and Moderates The Amistad Case
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Amistad Uprising (Library of Congress)
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The Crusade Against Slavery Abolitionism Divided
Radicals and Moderates The Amistad Case Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (Portrait Gallery)
Production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Library of Congress)
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America in the World The Abolition of Slavery
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