Abstract
began pervading popular culture in America from the moment the British agreed to generous peace terms in 1783. Hopes for an early inauguration of Christ's rule on earth, and a thousand years of peace, gradually took hold in every section, despite the political conflicts surrounding the forming of the new nation. Millennial expectation, which Nathan Hatch finds central in Republican political rhetoric, was more religious than ideological in character, I believe, and preoccupied as much with the future of all mankind as with the special role of the United States in securing it.' The spread of religious awakenings after 1800 convinced clergymen in all parts of the country that the Spirit of the Lord was mightily at work, ushering in the millennium through the hallowing of America. This conviction sparked the movements for both foreign and home missions, and from 1815 onward sustained all sorts of moral crusades: peace, temperance, Sunday schools, public education, antislavery, and concern for the destitute.2
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