1. Bell Work  What problems did immigrants face when they came to the United States? What were some problems with urbanization? This Day in History: March 24, 1989- The Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in the Prince William Sound in southern Alaska causing the worst oil spill in U.S. History. March 24, 1765- Parliament passes the Quartering Act. March 24, 1976- Peyton Manning is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2. American Culture and Reform

3. Transcendentalism and American Authors  This is the belief that people could transcend, or rise above, material things in life.  They believed people should depend on themselves rather than outside authorities.  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were important transcendentalists.  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman were influential authors and poets in this era.

4. Second Great Awakening  This was a Christian renewal movement during 1790s and early 1800s.  Charles Grandison Finney was an important leader.  Believed each person was responsible for own salvation.  Should prove faith by doing good works.  These ideas angered some traditional ministers, like Boston’s Lyman Beecher.  Renewed religious faith of people throughout America.

5. Reform movements activity: Why? Who? What? When?  Temperance movement  Prison reform  Education  Reform movements in African American communities

6. Reading Quiz  Chapter 14.4  Page 454-460