Chapter 12:
Pursuit of Perfection
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Antebellum period
Second Great Awakening
Timothy Dwight
Revivalism; revival meetings
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
“On Civil Disobedience”
Brook Farm; George Ripley
Feminists
Margaret Fuller
Theodore Parker
Utopian communities
Shakers
Robert Owen; New Harmony
Joseph Henry Hoyes; Oneida
community
Charles Fourier; phalanxes
Horace Greeley
George Caleb Bingham
William S. Mount
Thomas Cole
Frederick Church
Hudson River School
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Temperance
Millennialism
Church of Latter-Day Saints;
Mormons
Joseph Smith; Brigham Young
American Temperance Society
Washingtonians
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union
Asylum Movement
Dorothea Dix
Thomas Gallaudet
Samuel Gridley Howe
Penitentiaries
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Auburn system
Horace Mann
Public school movement
McGuffey readers
Women’s rights movement
Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke
Letter on the Condition of Women
and the Equality of the Sexes
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New Zion
Romantic movement
Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The
American Scholar”
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Susan B. Anthony
American Colonization Society
American Antislavery Society
Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison; The
Liberator
Liberty party
Frederick Douglass; The North Star
Harriet Tubman
David Ruggles
Sojourner Truth
William Still
David Walker
Henry Highland Garnet
Nat Turner
American Peace Society
Sylvester Graham
Amerlia Bloomer