Colonial Era to the Cold War Art and society Colonial Era to the Cold War
Colonial Literature Poetry Religious Literature M. Wigglesworth- “Day of Doom” Religious Literature J. Winthrop- “City Upon a Hill” J. Edwards G. Whitefield
Revolutionary Literature Captivity Narratives Revolutionary Literature Thomas Paine- “Common Sense” Ben Franklin- “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Colonial Architecture English/ Georgian Style
Colonial Thought Political Religious Enlightenment Locke: Natural Rights Hobbes: Equality/ Leviathan Rousseau: Social Contract Jefferson: Right to Revolution Religious Deism: God as Clockmaker 1st Great Awakening: Direct/ Emotive
Colonial Society Rural Population/ Farmers Fast Growing Population Ethnicities: English/ German/ Scots-Irish Indentured Servants/ Slaves Harsh Laws for the Poor Education New England: Schools 9 Colleges
Early Republic Literature Political Federalist Papers
E.R. Art Gilbert Stuart Portraits
E.R. Architecture Federal Style Neoclassical Thomas Jefferson Roman Thought/ Style Thomas Jefferson Monticello
E.R. Thought Federalists Anti-Federalists Hamiltonians Jeffersonians Centralized Power/ Executive Anti-Federalists Small Government/ Congress Hamiltonians Industry/ Strong Gov’t/ Tariffs/ Cities Jeffersonians Farming/ Strong States/ No Tariffs or Banks
E.R. Society Farmers Movement to Midwest Early Industrialization Samuel Slater
Jacksonian Era Causes War of 1812 Male Suffrage
Literature American/ Knickerbockers J. Fenimore Cooper: Nature Edgar Allen Poe: Pessimistic Washington Iriving: Dutch Nathaniel Hawthorne- “Scarlet Letter” Herman Melville
Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Walt Whitman: “Leaves of Grass”
Art Hudson River School Nature/ Industrialization
Architecture Greek Revival
Egyptian Revival
Thought 2nd Great Awakening Reform Movements Mormons Class Splits in Churches Reform Movements Individuals can reform evils Utopias
Society Mass Democracy State Sponsored Schools/ Universities Dorr Rebellion State Sponsored Schools/ Universities Farmers/ Merchants/ Workers Abolitionism
Civil War Era Literature Poetry Whitman Emily Dickinson: Death Realism Mark Twain: South/ Midwest/ Vernacular H. Beecher Stowe: “Uncle Toms Cabin”
Art George Catlin: Indians Whistler: Realism
Thought Abolitionism Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison
Society North- Industry/ Small Farms South- Small Farms/ Plantations Few Southerners owned slaves Free Blacks Immigrants Irish: Religion/ Poor Germans: Language
Gilded Age Literature Naturalism Muckrackers Stephen Crane- “Red Badge of Courage”/ “Maggie” Edith Wharton- “Age of Innocence” T. Dreiser- “Sister Carrie” Muckrackers U. Sinclair- “Jungle” Edward Bellamy- “Looking Backward” Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell
Art Ashcan School: Depict good and bad of life
Architecture Victorian Chicago School Beaux Arts Sullivan Frank Lloyd Wright Beaux Arts
Home Insurance Building
Thought Social Gospel Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism Populism Anti-Foreignism APA Chinese Exclusion Act
Society New Immigration Blue Collar Unions Urbanization South/East Europe Jane Addams: Hull House Blue Collar Unions Knights of Labor Urbanization End of the Frontier Sports Women’s Rights
1920’s Literature Poetry Lost Generation Ezra Pound T.S. Elliot F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner: South
Art Modernism Georgia O’Keefe Harlem Renaissance
Architecture Art Deco: Lines/ Futurism Skyscrapers
Society Urban/ Blue Collar Conspicuous Consumption Anti-Foreignism: KKK/ Quota Acts Hollywood Jazz Flappers
Depression Literature John Steinbeck “Grapes of Wrath” “Of Mice and Men”
Art Public Works of Art Project WPA
1950’s Literature Modernism Beatniks Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird J.D. Salinger Slyvia Plath: Bell Jar Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Beatniks Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
Art Abstract Jackson Pollock Pop Art Andy Warhol
Architecture Levittown
Society Movement to Suburbs Conformity Greasers: James Dean