Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860

Terms to Know: The Age of Reason Deism Unitarians Second Great Awakening Mormons American Temperance Society Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls Oneida Community Shakers Hudson River School Romanticism transcendentalism

People to Know: Charles Grandison Finney Joseph Smith Brigham Young Horace Mann Dorothea Dix Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony James Fenimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Louisa May Alcott Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville

Questions:

1. Describe the widespread revival of religion in the early nineteenth century and its effects on American culture and social reform.

2. Identify the most notable early American achievements in science, medicine, the visual arts, and music, and explain why advanced science and culture had difficulty taking hold on American soil.