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Cultural Nationalism p p Education The “Virtuous Citizen” p p An American form of English Noah Webster Blue-backed Speller
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Cultural Nationalism American style of art develops –Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale, and John Trumball
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Cultural Nationalism p p A well-defined American literature Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Parson Mason Weems The Sketch Book, 1819-20 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
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Cultural Nationalism Religious Movements: Deism Second “Great Awakening” Charles Grandison Finney Lyman Beecher
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The Second “Great Awakening:” Revivalist Meeting
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Charles G. Finney The ranges of tents, the fires, reflecting light…; the candles and lamps illuminating the encampment; hundreds moving to and fro…;the preaching, praying, singing, and shouting,… like the sound of many waters, was enough to swallow up all the powers of contemplation. “soul-shaking” conversion
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The “Benevolent Empire”
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“Burned-Over” District in Upstate New York
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Results of the Second Great Awakening
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Economic Nationalism p p Encourage Creativity & Inventiveness. p p Create a Transportation Infrastructure. p p Create a Pro-Business Atmosphere. Jefferson’s Vision of America Hamilton’s Vision of America Role of Govt.
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The American System p p Tariff of 1816 p p Chartering of the Second Bank of the United States [BUS]. p p Internal improvements at federal expense. - National Road Henry Clay, “The Great Compromiser”
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The American System p WEST got roads, canals, and federal aid p EAST got protective tariffs which promoted American manufacturing All? national bank to keep the system running smoothly by providing a national currency All? got national bank to keep the system running smoothly by providing a national currency p SOUTH ??
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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791
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The Factory System Samuel Slater is known as the father of the American factory system. He was able to bring the technologhy to the U.S. that would aid the beginnings of the textile industry in New England.
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The Factory System With an increase in manufacturing and the rise of the textile industry (first major industry in the U.S.) there was a need for a labor force. At Waltham and Lowell (MA) they began to use young, unmarried women who became known as “Lowell Girls.”
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Whitney’s Gun Factory Interchangeable Parts Rifle
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John Deere Steel-tipped plow
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First Turnpike Lancaster, PA (1790) By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.
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Cumberland “National Road,” 1811
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Conestoga Covered Wagons Conestoga Trail, 1820s
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Yankee Clipper Ships
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Robert Fulton & the Steamboat The Clermont
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Erie Canal System 1817 – 1825. 363 miles Albany to Buffalo. Much further than any other American or European canal.
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The Erie Canal, 1820s
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