1. Chapter 14.1-14.3: A Changing Society
EQ: What changes began taking place in American society in the early to mid 1800’s?(use examples to describe how their lives were affected)

2. Immigrants
Most came by ship, crammed in filthy conditions in steerage (cheap seats!) for up to a month or more
Many became ill or died on the journey
Immigrated from countries including; Britain, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia, and China

3. Push-Pull Factors
Push- forced -(population growth, farming difficulties, religion/politics, Industrial Revolution)
Pull- attracted- (freedom, economic opportunity , land)
Push-Pull factors are forces that push people out of their native land and pull them toward a new place

6. America Growing too Fast Copy this T chart on the right hand side as notes
CONS
PROS
Major cities populations exploded
Lack of housing
Trash, outdoor toilet, and disease issues
Many cities had no fire or police departments
Immigrants often faced anger and/or prejudice
New skills/culture/foods etc
With so many workers creating things it became much more common in daily life to buy things instead of making/growing your own
Pushed cities to create assistance for immigrants, and fire and police departments

7. American Literature
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and other authors of 1800’s influenced by romanticism stressing imagination, creativity, and emotion
-first time in American history writers could make a living by only writing fiction stories

8. American Art artists also influenced by romanticism
romanticism: a European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, and emotion
Hudson River School in New York taught natural lush landscape techniques - how to paint mountains, rivers, forests, etc
known as the Hudson River School style of painting

12. American Thought
Transcendentalism - taught that spiritual world is more important than physical world
Second Great Awakening – as churches sprung up across the western frontier
Temperance movement – a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol, many states make the sale of alcohol illegal (women led the charge on this!)

13. Education
By 1850 most Northern states had public elementary schools, high schools slowly followed
rare for females to attend college, most not even allowing women to apply
difficult for African Americans to receive an education, illegal to educate slaves in South and most Northern schools banned blacks
Elizabeth Blackwell
(Became first woman
doctor in 1849)

14. Summary
Write a 10 sentence summary answering the EQ.
Remember – The EQ was:
What changes began taking place in American society in the early to mid 1800’s?(use examples to describe how their lives were affected)