1. American Culture- 1800s

2. American Art

3. 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

4. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

10. American Improvements
Cumberland Road
Lancaster Turnpike
Erie Canal
Clipper Ships
Steamboats

12. American Inventions Singer sewing machine Morse’s telegraph
Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Slater’s Factory

13. Immigration Ireland German 48ers
American responses: Nativism, Know Nothing Party, violence against Catholics and Immigrants

14. 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