8.+Religion,+Reform+and+Renaissance+in+Antebellum+America


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 * === **See** ** United States History I.32 for background on religious movements before the Civil War. **===
 * ===See United States History I.23 for information about Alexis de Tocqueville and rising political participation in antebellum America===
 * ===See **United States History I.31 for the abolitionist movement**===
 * ===See United States History I.33 for the women's suffrage movement before the Civil War.===
 * ===See **Historical Biography Page on Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell**===

**A. Evangelical Protestant revivalism**
[|Brief biography of Charles Finney.]

**B. Social reforms**

[[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="66" height="66"]]See United States History I.31 for more on abolitionism.
[|Lecture outline on social reforms during the 19th in America.]

**C. Ideals of domesticity** [|Lengthy, but highly influential, essay on the Ideals of Domesticity between 1820 and 1860.]

[|Video on early women's rights and suffrage movements.]

===Link to **Historical Biography Page on Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell**===

**See** ** United States History I.33 ** **for more on women's suffrage.**

**D. Transcendentalism and utopianism**
  Click here for an [|interactive map on Utopian Communities before the Civil War]

[|Informative video about religious and social reform movements during the Second Great Awakening.]

For more, see [|The Amana Colonies] from the National Park Service.

**E. American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions**

[[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="66" height="66"]]See United States History I.34 for more on transcendentalism.
[|A Powerpoint about Transcendentalist art and artists.]

Click here for a [|biography of Margaret Fuller]