This 13 page lecture covers the formation of the Whig Party during the Age of Jackson and the explosion of reform movements in the 1830s and 1840s.
Major topics covered include: the American System, the Election of 1840, henry Clay, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Daniel Webster, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalists, abolitionism, American Colonization Society, American Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, Frederick Douglass, Douglas Walker, Women's Rights, Seneca Falls Convention, the Declaration of Sentiments, teh temperance movement, education, Horace Mann, Utopian Movements,