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Period: to
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
de-emphasis of reason and logic and a focus on emotion, individualism, and patriotism. The romantic period was a reaction to the age of reason. People wanted to move away from evidence, observation, and institution and develop a new sense of self and country. suspicious of institution -
Period: to
Age of Reform
-institutions/care for the physically and mentally disabled
-temperance movement
-women's rights movement
-abolitionist movement -
Changing Family Life
-women given control over household affairs (dads were in the cities working)
-cult of true womanhood
-children more important (not just labor) -
Second Great Awakening
-protestant religious revival movement
-coincided with the romantic movement (return to emotion rejection of reason)
-salvation available to anyone
-revival meetings