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YEARS OF CRISIS
YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796
Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars
•Republican support for the French Revolution
•Neutrality Act, 1793
•Citizen GenetLiberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830
Source: theguardian.com
YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796
The Whiskey Rebellion•Protests against the whiskey tax•Fears of outside intervention•Washington responds•A new political party
Source: mountvernon.gov
YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796
Further Conflicts on the Frontier•Settlement in Ohio and Mississippi River valleys
•Battle of Fallen Timbers• Jay Treaty•Pinckney Treaty
THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM
The Adams Presidency•The election of 1796
•XYZ affair•Alien and Sedition Acts
The Election of 1800•Selecting candidates
• Jefferson’s victorySource: whitehouse.gov
CREATING A NEW CULTURE
CREATING AN AMERICAN IDENTITY
Education for a New Nation
•Public education•Frontier colleges•Role of women
Source: libs.uga.edu
LITERARY AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS
•Hartford Wits•American novels•American histories•Arts and sciences
Source: willbradley.com
THE RACIAL LIMITS OF AMERICAN CULTURE
•Portrayals of Indians and African Americans•African American education•Education of Native Americans•Cultural assumptions
BRING TEXTBOOK ON MONDAY, DEC. 1
CREATING AN AMERICAN IDENTITY
Emigration and Colonization
•Support for emigration of American blacks to Africa
•Opposition to the idea•Why it did not work
Building a National Capital
•Labor•Design•Physical and social landscape
A NEW CULTURE• Renaming the land
• Eliminate many British names.• King Street becomes
State Street, etc• They use names of war
heroes (Washington, Mercer, etc).
• Interest in naming many things after Christopher Columbus.
• A new language• Noah Webster creates a
dictionary that made a language of “our own,” by rejecting many English conventions.
Source: connecticuthistory.org
A NEW CULTURE
• Artistic push to celebrate and document the American landscape.
• Many organizations that attempted to “improve society,” via promotion of manumission or temperance, etc.