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    This unit covers the increasing fragmentation and divisions in American society from the 1840s-1850s. Key topics discussed include Transcendentalism, the debate between radical and moderate abolitionists, the writings of African American abolitionists like David Walker and Frederick Douglass, immigration trends and conflicts over gender norms, reforms beyond abolition, criticisms of Transcendentalism in works by Melville, and the growing sectional tensions surrounding westward expansion and the issue of slavery that eventually led to the Civil War. The unit culminates in a test on November 16th.

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    This unit covers the increasing fragmentation and divisions in American society from the 1840s-1850s. Key topics discussed include Transcendentalism, the debate between radical and moderate abolitionists, the writings of African American abolitionists like David Walker and Frederick Douglass, immigration trends and conflicts over gender norms, reforms beyond abolition, criticisms of Transcendentalism in works by Melville, and the growing sectional tensions surrounding westward expansion and the issue of slavery that eventually led to the Civil War. The unit culminates in a test on November 16th.

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    Unit Four: Fragmentation and Division

    Oct 27: Intro to Transcendentalism; “The American Scholar” and “Nature”/”Self-Reliance”


    Oct 30: radical abolitionists v. slavery’s apologists
    Oct 31: Thoreau from Walden and “Civil Disobedience”
    Nov 2: African-American abolitionists: David Walker (and the free black community) and his "Appeal";
    "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?; F. Douglass ***sentence outline due***
    Nov 3: Antebellum immigration; Seneca Falls vs. “the cult of domesticity” (and the myth of both)
    Nov 7: Antebellum reforms beyond abolition; AP exam format revisited
    Nov 8: Anti-transcendentalism and Melville’s Moby Dick
    Nov 9: Workshop on Neighborhood Essay
    Nov 10: Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
    Nov 13: Margaret Fuller as a bridge & revisiting the Mexican-American War
    Nov 14: “Manifest Destiny” and the long road toward civil war
    Nov 15: Review time
    Nov 16: Unit 4 Test

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