| Learning Objectives A thorough study of Chapter Twelve should enable the student to understand: |
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The two basic impulses that were reflected in the reform movements and examples of groups illustrating each impulse. |
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The contributions of a new group of literary figures (such as James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe) to American cultural nationalism. |
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The transcendentalists and their place in American society. |
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The sources of American religious reform movements, why they originated where they did, their ultimate objectives, and what their leadership had in common. |
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The two distinct sources from which the philosophy of reform arose. |
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American education reform in the antebellum period and the contribution of education to the growth of nationalism. |
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The role of women in American society and the attempts to alter their relationships with men. |
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The origins of the antislavery movement, the sources of its leadership, and the interaction between American antislavery thought and similar movements abroad. |
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The role of abolitionism in the antislavery movement, and the strengths and weaknesses of that part of the movement. |