Aim: To what extent did individualism, new religious sects, abolitionism, and women’s rights (as the movement was called in the nineteenth century) change American culture between 1820 and 1860?
Agenda:
1. Expansion of the franchise that weakened the political system run by notables of high status. Party politics increased the growth of democracy through an increase in party competition, white male voter interest, and participation in national elections. Jackson dismantled the political foundation of the mercantilist system, the American System of national improvements through state support.
2. Exam Alert: The 2007 AP U.S. History exam asked students to trace the influence of the Second Great Awakening on two of the following movements: abolition, temperance, the cult of domesticity, and utopian communities. Students still should understand these connections.
3. What is Transcendentalism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6SMXXllyA (5 min)
A. “…people were trapped by inherited customs and institutions.”
B. “What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made?”
C. Emerson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkdFMw0pmk (11 min)
D. “Emerson worried that the new market society - the focus on work, profits, and consumption - was debasing Americans’ spiritual lives.
4. Journal 58 - What were the main principles of transcendentalism, and how did they differ from the beliefs of most Protestant Christians? (10 min)
5. Walt Whitman “…nothing was impossible for the individual who could break free from tradition.”
6. What are Utopian Communities? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeODSaOSiXk (5 min)
A. Do you think it’s impossible to create perfect communities? Why or why not?
Home Learning:
1. Journal 59 - What factors led to the proliferation of rural utopian communities in nineteenth century America?
2. Begin working on Thinking Like a Historian 11 / due: Wednesday, December 6, 2017
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