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1 Reform, Culture, and Industry Jacksonian America

2 Religion  2 nd Great Awakening Camp Meetings Camp Meetings Frontier Frontier Fire and Brimstone Fire and Brimstone Peter Cartwright/ Charles Finney Peter Cartwright/ Charles Finney Female Focused Female Focused

3  New Denominations Methodists and Baptists Methodists and Baptists Millerites/ Adventists Millerites/ Adventists Churches split over slavery Churches split over slavery

4  Mormons Joseph Smith Joseph Smith 18301830 Golden PlatesGolden Plates Cooperative ReligionCooperative Religion Militia/ PolygamyMilitia/ Polygamy Movement West to Zion Movement West to Zion 1844 Smith murdered in jail1844 Smith murdered in jail Brigham YoungBrigham Young

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6 Free Education for a Free People  Early Republic- School was private  Rich support b/c it will eliminate poor/criminals  Early School 1 Room 1 Room 3-4 months a year 3-4 months a year Uneducated teachers Uneducated teachers

7 School Reform  Horace Mann Longer school year Longer school year Pay for teachers Pay for teachers Expanded curriculum Expanded curriculum Teacher Colleges Teacher Colleges  Noah Webster Textbooks Textbooks

8 Prison/Asylum Reform  No more debtor prisons  End to corporal punishment  “Penitentiary”  Dorothea Dix Improve Asylums Improve Asylums

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10 Prohibition  Women/ Factory Owners  American Temperance Society Maine Law of 1857 Maine Law of 1857

11 Women’s Rights  Republican Motherhood  Cult of Domesticity  Seneca Falls 1848 1848 Lucretia Mott/ Eliz. Cady Stanton/ Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott/ Eliz. Cady Stanton/ Susan B. Anthony

12 Utopias  Robert Owen  “Communitarian” living  New Harmony Indiana (1825)  Oneida Community, NY (1848)  Practices “Free Love” “Free Love” Eugenics Eugenics Communism Communism

13 Art  Greek Revival (1820-1850)  Hudson River School

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18 Literature  Knickerbockers Washington Irving Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant

19 Transcendentalism  Rejected rationalism All truth/ knowledge comes from senses All truth/ knowledge comes from senses  Man possesses inner truth  Individualism  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Walt Whimtan  Henry David Thoreau Walden’s Pond Walden’s Pond Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience

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22 Industrial Revolution  1750’s England  1820’s America Why Late? Why Late? Cheap LandCheap Land Scarce Labor in CitiesScarce Labor in Cities Little CapitalLittle Capital English MonopolyEnglish Monopoly

23 Industrialists  Samuel Slater 1 st Factory in New Eng. 1 st Factory in New Eng.  Eli Whitney Cotton Gin Cotton Gin INCREASED SLAVERY INCREASED SLAVERY Interchangeable Parts Interchangeable Parts

24  Why New England? Poor Soil Poor Soil Dense Population Dense Population Seaports Seaports

25 Benefits  1) Increased Standard of Living  2) Growth of Cities  3) Increased Trade  4) Cheaper Products

26 Wage Slavery  Problems Mass Labor/ No Personal Relationship Mass Labor/ No Personal Relationship Child Labor Child Labor Long Hours/ Low Pay Long Hours/ Low Pay

27  Solutions Jacksonian Democracy- Right to Vote Jacksonian Democracy- Right to Vote Van Buren- 10 Hour Work Day Van Buren- 10 Hour Work Day Commonwealth v Hunt- Right to Unionize Commonwealth v Hunt- Right to Unionize

28 Western Farming  John Deere- Steel Plow (1837)

29 Movement West  Roads Lancaster Turnpike Lancaster Turnpike National Road/ Cumberland Road National Road/ Cumberland Road

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31  Steam Robert Fulton- Steamboat Robert Fulton- Steamboat

32  Railroads 1828- “Iron Horse” 1828- “Iron Horse”

33  Telegraph Samuel Morse Samuel Morse

34  Clipper Ships Fast Fast Cheap Products Cheap Products

35  Canals Erie Canal- Gov. Clinton/ Big Ditch/ 1825 Erie Canal- Gov. Clinton/ Big Ditch/ 1825

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