The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

270 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America Tocqueville: Democracy in America On May 12, 1831, two French aristocrats, Ale ...

The Family Recast 271 affairs, they were expected to tend only to those affairs. Expanding their interest to other fields of hum ...

272 I n 1798 English philosopher Thomas Malthus remarked that the sudden population increase in the United States was “probably ...

273 Middle-class parents practiced sexual abstinence and even simple forms of contraception to limit family size. By having fewe ...

274 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies(1841). “The mother fo ...

other Evangelists to fill their pews. In 1831 alone, church membership grew by 100,000, an increase, according to a New England ...

276 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America environs, and throughout the burned-over district. Apparently without consciou ...

Backwoods Utopias 277 The Shakers practiced celibacy; believing that the millennium was imminent, they saw no reason for perpetu ...

278 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America United States. Rumors circulated that the Mormons intended to take over the en ...

The Age of Reform 279 from their present corrupting circumstances and placed in specialized institutions where they could be tra ...

280 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America uplift the deviant and dependent all too soon became places where society’s “m ...

The Abolitionist Crusade 281 union set out to persuade people to “sign the pledge” not to drink liquor. Primitive sociological s ...

282 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America John Quincy Adams called slavery “the great and foul stain upon the North Amer ...

Women’s Rights 283 At first Douglass was, in his own words, “a faith- ful disciple” of Garrison, prepared to tear up the Constit ...

284 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America objected to abolitionists being reinforced by their feel- ings that women shou ...

The Romantic View of Life 285 Reform. Their leaders, however, were persevering types, most of them extraordinarily long-lived. T ...

European and seek inspiration in their immediate sur- roundings. Emerson saw himself as pitting “spiritual powers” against “the ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne 287 In 1845 Thoreau decided to put to the test his theory that a person need not depend on society for a sat ...

288 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America his father died and his grief-stricken mother became a recluse. Left largely t ...

Walt Whitman 289 and evil, of courage and cowardice, of faith, stub- bornness, and pride. In Captain Ahab, driven relent- lessly ...