APUSH Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism and Reform, 1800-1860
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1. 1826: Ministers American Society for the Promotion of Temperance oc-
organize the curred in Boston. They wanted liquor prohibited by law.
American Soci- They feared Jacksonian democracy and the surge of im-
ety for the Pro- migrants from Ireland and Germany, who dreaded change
motion of Tem- as a means of social control. They wanted to control immi-
perance grants. Other organizations expanded to restrict freedoms
like no Sunday mail service or recreation for families.
2. 1831: Charles G. Headed anti-slavery faculty at Oberlin College in Ohio,
Finney begins which was the first to admit black students.
preaching in up-
state New York.
3. 1833: American William Lloyd Garrison was a United States abolitionist
Anti-Slavery So- who published an anti-slavery journal. called The Liber-
ciety is founded ator. It because the voice of the nation's first civil rights
by William Lloyd movement. He was a printer from Boston.
Garrison. -He wanted immediate freedom and he outraged southern
slaveholders and governments. He made abolition FINAL-
LY seem possible.
-American Anti Slavery Society was founded by William
Lloyd Garrison and wealthy New Yorkers. By 1840,
160,000 people belonged and the society argued blacks
should have full civil and social rights.
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4. 1836: Transcen- The most intense advocates of romantic idealism were the
dental Club Transcendentalists.
holds it first -Transcendentalists promoted RADICAL individualism
meeting. p. 464 and spirituality separate from organized religion.
-The goal was to transcend the limits of reason and logic.
The inner life of the spirit means more than hard facts of
science and religious restrictions.
-Believed in self-reliance over conformity and social con-
ventions.
-Think your own thoughts and own beliefs.
-Transcendentalism inspired writers like:
-Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlett Letter)
-Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
-Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature)
5. Ralph Waldo -He was a Transcendentalist. Ralph Waldo Emerson was
Emerson p. 464 the son of a minister, he turned away from religion be-
cause it stifled free thinking.
-Emerson wanted personal spirituality with nature.
-Emerson wrote the book "Nature", which launched the
transcendental movement.
-Emerson championed self-reforming individualism.
6. 1837: Abolition- -Racism permeated the North among poor working whites.
ist editor Eliajih Aboltionish speakders were greated by white mobs.
Lovejoy is mur- -Abolitionist speaker and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy
dered was killed in St. Jouis where he ran a newspaper in slave-
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holding MIssouri..
-This gave the Abolitionist movement momentum. -Lead-
ers like Abraham Lincoln were shocked over the mob
violence.
7. 1840: Abolition- -Liberty Party was formed to elect a president who would
ists form the Lib- restrict the speared of slavery.
erty Party.
8. 1845: Narrative of -Douglas was the most famous black man in America.
the Life of Fred- -After pubblishing his book he went to England to escape
erick Douglas is slave catchers and earned enough money and bought his
published freedom.
-He started and abolitionist newspaper for blacks, the
North Star.
9. 1846-47: Mor- -Brigham Young moved Mormons, an unpoplular religious
mons, led by sect to Utah from Nauvoo, Illinois.
Brigham Young, -They developed an irrigation system for their farms and
make the difficult over the next decade they brought about a spectacular
trek to Utah. greening of the Utah Desert.
-Utah later became part of the United States and Brigham
Young was named territorial governor giving Mormons
virtual independence.
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