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CHAPTER 13 | AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: RELIGION, ROMANTICISM, AND REFORM | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1802	U.S. Military Academy begun
1819	University of Virginia founded
1821	Boston English High School opened
1830	Joseph Smith started the Mormons
1833	American Temperance Union formed
1833	Oberlin College founded
1836	Transcendentalist Club formed
1837	Emerson’s “The American Scholar”
1841	Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
1841	New York Herald Tribune started
1844	Joseph Smith killed
1847	Mormons arrived at Salt Lake
1847	Hoe rotary press invented
1848	Oneida Community established
1848	Seneca Falls Convention
1849	Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
1850	Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
1850	Harper’s magazine started
1851	Melville’s Moby Dick
1851	Maine banned manufacture and sale of intoxicants
1854	Thoreau’s Walden
1855	Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Describe the religious denominations developed after the Enlightenment.

Account for the Second Great Awakening and trace its impact on society.

Explain the nature of transcendentalism and describe its impact on the intellectual life of the United States.

List the major literary figures of the antebellum period and describe their contributions.

Describe the stirrings for improvement in education.

Explain the impetus for reform and show its manifestations in temperance, prisons, asylums, and women’s rights.

Account for the movement for utopian communities and describe significant examples.