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Reform, Culture, and Industry Jacksonian America
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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
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New Denominations Methodists and Baptists Methodists and Baptists Millerites/ Adventists Millerites/ Adventists Churches split over slavery Churches split over slavery
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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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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
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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
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Prison/Asylum Reform No more debtor prisons End to corporal punishment “Penitentiary” Dorothea Dix Improve Asylums Improve Asylums
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Prohibition Women/ Factory Owners American Temperance Society Maine Law of 1857 Maine Law of 1857
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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
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Utopias Robert Owen “Communitarian” living New Harmony Indiana (1825) Oneida Community, NY (1848) Practices “Free Love” “Free Love” Eugenics Eugenics Communism Communism
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Art Greek Revival (1820-1850) Hudson River School
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Literature Knickerbockers Washington Irving Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant
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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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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
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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
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Why New England? Poor Soil Poor Soil Dense Population Dense Population Seaports Seaports
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Benefits 1) Increased Standard of Living 2) Growth of Cities 3) Increased Trade 4) Cheaper Products
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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
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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
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Western Farming John Deere- Steel Plow (1837)
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Movement West Roads Lancaster Turnpike Lancaster Turnpike National Road/ Cumberland Road National Road/ Cumberland Road
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Steam Robert Fulton- Steamboat Robert Fulton- Steamboat
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Railroads 1828- “Iron Horse” 1828- “Iron Horse”
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Telegraph Samuel Morse Samuel Morse
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Clipper Ships Fast Fast Cheap Products Cheap Products
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Canals Erie Canal- Gov. Clinton/ Big Ditch/ 1825 Erie Canal- Gov. Clinton/ Big Ditch/ 1825
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