The Age of Reform
political/institutional/medical/work/moral
Two models of reform: political/moral:
political: 1790-1830
republicanism & democratization
suffrage & property
caucus & convention
office-holding
democratic representation
equality vs. privilege
Whig resistance
representation
oratory
Moral judgment & moral reform:
Protestantism & Enlightenment
1. religion & reform
Second Great Awakening, 1790-1830
Calvinism revised
Charles Grandison Finney & the means to revival
varied awakenings:
southern/slave/mainstream/frontier
mainstream denominations:
Lyman Beecher & family
New England/New York/Ohio
Burned-Over District
conversion, striving, and moral perfection
postmillennial
2. the temperance movement
vs. prohibition
temperate & temper
religion, passion, & self-control
movement of cities & towns
economy & household
market employment
women & reform
domesticity & motherhood
temperance & the south
civility & violence
temperance & working class
related reforms
3. Democratic reform
politics
democratized Christianity
temperance
Washington societies
workingmen’s movements
4. antislavery & abolition
Revolutionary antislavery
Quakers & Enlightenment
gradualism, c. 1776-1830
American colonization society
1831: abolitionism vs. antislavery
Nat Turner
The Liberator
immediate abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
abolition & temperance
“ & the south
anti-abolition violence
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