Society, Culture, And Reform, 1820-1860
Chapter 11: Society, Culture, and Reform, 1820-1860
Many reform movements occurred in this time; people dedicated themselves to creating free public schools, gaining equal rights for women and abolishing slavery among many other things. These movements came from many different sources, the largest being religion due to the Second Great Awakening. This period brought many revivals of churches and lead to the creation of new religious groups. The American culture also improved, fueled by new art, ideas, and literature by prominent thinkers and writers, including Emerson and Thoreau. Many people performed social experiments by testing out ideas on farms with small groups of people; some were religious but few were even slightly successful. There
Many reform movements occurred in this time; people dedicated themselves to creating free public schools, gaining equal rights for women and abolishing slavery among many other things. These movements came from many different sources, the largest being religion due to the Second Great Awakening. This period brought many revivals of churches and lead to the creation of new religious groups. The American culture also improved, fueled by new art, ideas, and literature by prominent thinkers and writers, including Emerson and Thoreau. Many people performed social experiments by testing out ideas on farms with small groups of people; some were religious but few were even slightly successful. There