COS Standard 11
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COS Standard 11Evaluate the impact of American social and political
reform on the emergence of a distinct culture.
Explaining the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the emergence of a national identity
Explaining the emergence of uniquely American writers Examples: James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David
Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe
Explaining the influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Dix, and Susan B. Anthony on the development of social
reform movements prior to the Civil War
Chapter 8 Section 2 and 3
Second Great AwakeningAmerican commitment to organized religion
is weakened.Scientific revolution and rationalism
Began in Kentucky on the frontierCamp meetingsMainly Methodists, Baptists and PresbyterianPeople must readmit God and Christ into
their daily lives; all people could attain grace through faith
Charles Grandison Finney
Second Great Awakening continuedUnitarian: Jesus is not God’s son, but a
good teacher; God is a unity, not a trinity; stressed goodness of human nature rather than vileness, belief in free will and salvation through good works, God is a stern but loving Father
Universalists: universal salvation of all souls
Mormons: Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints; Joseph Smith; The Book of Mormon
American WritersRomanticism: feeling over reason, inner spiritually over
external rules, nature over environments created by humans
Transcendentalism: overcome the limits of the mind and let their soul reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance (transcendentalism)
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet LetterHerman Melville: Moby DickEmily Dickinson: American poetWalt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Leaves of Grass
American Writers
American Writers: James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the
MohicansFirst American
novelist
American Writers: Henry David ThoreauWalden, Civil
DisobedienceTranscendentalistFight the pressure to
conform
American Writers: Edgar Allan PoeTell-Tale Heart, The
Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, Fall of the House of Usher
Poet and short story writer
Themes: mystery and terror
Reformers and their ReformsLyman BeecherBenevolent societies: combated
social problems through God’s word
Temperance limit the amount of alcohol
(moderation)Alcohol can lead to the downfall
of manHorace MannFather of educationPublic educationState board of education
Drunkard’s Progress
UtopiaPerfect societyCommunist
Brook FarmOneidaShakers
Reformers: Elizabeth Cady StantonAdvocated for women’s
suffrageSeneca Falls
Convention: wrote the Declaration of Sentiments; all men and women were equalLaunched the modern
women’s rights movement
Some changes did happen but overshadowed by slavery
Reformers: Dorothea DixWorked to get
better care for Mentally ill and imprisoned
Reformers: Susan B. Anthony
Advocate for women’s rights