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American Culture- 1800s

American Culture- 1800s

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American Culture- 1800s

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American Art

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American Literature

Transcendentalism- knowledge should transcend the here and now, everyone possess an inner light that puts you in direct relation to God

Doctrine of the Unitarian church

Famous names- Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman

American book- Moby Dick- Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

To shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless

inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by

yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the

pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent

revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

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American Religion- 2nd Great Awakening

Diversity of denominations

Emotion reactions to God

Camp meetings

Missionary Movements

Reform based- anti alcohol, slavery

Women and African Americans were deeply involved

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American Reform

Public schools

American asylums- Dorthea Dix

Utopian Communities- Oneida Community, Shakers

Creation of higher education- Horace Mann, Noah Webster

Temperance- Neal Dow

Women’s rights

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American ImprovementsCumberland Road

Lancaster Turnpike

Erie Canal

Clipper Ships

Steamboats

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American Inventions

Singer sewing machine

Morse’s telegraph

Whitney’s Cotton Gin

Slater’s Factory

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ImmigrationIreland

German 48ers

American responses: Nativism, Know Nothing Party, violence against Catholics and Immigrants

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Women and Children

Cult of domesticity vs domestic feminism

Factory girls- Lowell Girls

Families grow smaller, women marry for love

Child labor- Martin Van Buren creates the ten hour work day