Creating an American Culture

A.	Cultural nationalism

B.	Education reform/professionalism

C.	Religion; revivalism

D.	Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community

E.	Transcendentalists

F.	National literature, art, architecture

G.	Reform crusades

1.	Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth century

2.	Abolitionism

3.	Temperance

4.	Criminals and the insane

Resources:

The Old South
Resource Type: E-Seminar

Relevant transcripts:
Slaves with a talent for preaching were found on many plantations, and the lessons they found in the Bible differed from those taught by white ministers.

The Struggle for Freedom
Resource Type: E-Seminar

Relevant texts:
Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, 1791.

Abolitionism and Antislavery
Resource Type: E-Seminar

Relevant pages:
The Rise of Abolition: An Age of Reform
The Rise of Abolition: Early Abolitionist Leaders
The Rise of Abolition: The Appeal To Public Opinion
The Rise of Abolition: Women and African Americans
The Abolitionist Position: Black Abolitionists' Ideas

Relevant texts:
Excerpt from Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.
W. L. Garrison, "To the Public," from the Liberator.
Excerpt from Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Excerpt from Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"

Relevant transcripts:
Abolitionists appropriated to their cause the symbols of the American Revolution.
Professor Foner describes negative reactions to the abolitionist movement.