CHAPTER 12 – Antebellum Culture and Reform

1. THE ROMANTIC IMPULSE

a. Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting

b. Literature and the Quest for Liberation

c. Literature in the Antebellum South

d. The Transcendentalists

e. The Defense of Nature

f. Visions of Utopia

g. Redefining Gender Roles

h. The Mormons

2. REMAKING SOCIETY

a. Revivalism, Morality and Order

b. The Temperance Crusade

c. Health Fads and Phrenology

d. Medical Science

e. Reforming Education

f. Rehabilitation

g. The Indian reservation

h. The Emergence of Feminism

3. THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY

a. Early Opposition to Slavery

b. Garrison and Abolitionism

c. Black Abolitionists

d. Anti-Abolitionism

e. Abolitionism Divided

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Second Great Awakening
• human perfectibility (perfectibility of man)
• secular reforms
• xenophobia
• constituencies
• participatory democracy

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Romanticism
• Margaret Fuller
• Hudson River School
• Shakers
• Washington Irving
• Mormons
• James Fennimore Cooper
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• Walt Whitman
• Charles G. Finney
• Herman Melville
• Temperance
• Edgar Allan Poe
• health fads
• Southern romanticists
• public education
• Transcendentialism
• Horace Mann
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Dorothea Dix
• Henry David Thoreau
• Seneca Falls Convention
• Utopian communities (Brook Farm)
• American Colonization Society
• Nathaniel Lloyd Garrison (Liberator)
• experimental communities (New Harmony)
• Frederick Douglass
• gender roles (Oneida)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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