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Era of Good Feeling. A sense of nationalism promotes a unified nation that: enables the nation to peacefully negotiate disputes with foreign powers constructs roads and canals connecting the west and east has a brief period of political cooperation between parties. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Era of Good Feeling
A sense of nationalism promotes a unified nation that: enables the nation to peacefully negotiate disputes with foreign powers constructs roads and canals connecting the west and east has a brief period of political cooperation between parties
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Limited naval power of the U.S. and Great Britain on the Great Lakes...
Rush-Bagot Agreement, 1817
Convention of 1818... gave US fishing rights off the north Atlantic coast—
New Foundland/Labrador settles border from Great Lakes to Rockies at the 49
degrees latitude.
Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819.
Spain gives East Florida Territory to the US
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Industrialism and the Northeast
Late 1700’s -1800’s
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Overview
The economy, development, and politics of the regions were determined by industrial development—i.e., manufacturing.
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Those learning a new craft under a master craftsman were called...
apprentices
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Cities had a tendency to be established near
rivers and the sea
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During the early years of the Republic, most Americans lived
on farms.
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The rise of factories and the use of machinery in life became known as
industrial revolution
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English mechanic who memorized mill plans in England and brought them to the US
Samuel Slater
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Factories established themselves in cities because
they were near water transportation supply of workers
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Aiding in the advance of industrialization was the development of the interchangeable part invented by
Eli Whitney
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What was the great achievement of Francis Lowell?
He combines spinning and weaving factories into one operation.
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Women who worked and lived in Lowell's factory complexes were known as
Lowell Girls
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Besides women, this social group became a common source of labor .
children
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Discuss how the population begins to shift as a result of factories.
Families begin to move from farms to cities. Immigrants pour into American cities
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The movement of goods and people to and fro the West depended upon reliable
transportation
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Built in 1806, this route carried goods and people from Maryland to Virginia then to Illinois
The National Road
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Turnpikes were...
toll roads for which people paid money to travel
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These were manmade waterways connecting lakes and rivers
canals
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The most famous canal of all is the Erie Canal
These carried water craft over hill and high places
Locks
This canal connected... Lake Erie and the Hudson River
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1830’s steam powered these “iron horses”
locomotives and trains
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Fastest ships on the oceans
Yankee Clippers carried people to the California gold fields
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They filled American cities providing cheap labor
immigrants
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Elias Howe invented: the sowing machine
Isaac Singer: improved the sowing machine
Effect: increased the production of clothing
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John Deere Light weight steel plow
Cyrus McCormick Invented the mechanical reaper (harvester)
Effect: Made it easier to till, plant, and harvest in the vast
prairies of the west.
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Inventor of the Telegraph
Samuel Morse, 1844
Increased communication connected the east with the west.
Effect
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Artisans (eg., carpenters) organize to improve work conditions.
Trade Unions
Sara Bagley...
organized the Lowell Girls
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Regarding immigration, what is a push factor?
Events that force or prompt people to leave their homeland for another.
For example: famine, war, political oppression
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Regarding immigration, what is a pull factor?
Those conditions which attract immigrants from their homeland. Examples are land, jobs, political freedom, etc.
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Where did most Chinese immigrants settle during the 1840-50’s?
They came to the west coast especially during the gold rush. They settled on the outskirts of mining towns and big cities. Their ghettoes were most commonly called Chinatowns.
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Why did many Irish immigrate to the east coast in the 1840’s?
A blight (disease) destroyed caused potatoes to rot, thus creating a famine.
What types of jobs did they assume upon arrival in the U.S.? They often became unskilled laborers in factories, or built
canals, and later, the railroads. Women also became household domestics.
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Why did many Germans immigrate to the east coast in the 1840’s?
They were looking for work. Many Germans were skilled laborers. They often migrated to the Midwest and became farmers.
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Two issues facing immigrants
discrimination overcrowding in the cities
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Four problem facing immigrants living in large cities
Tenements: poorly constructed apartment buildings that were overcrowded with few sanitary facilities or hot water
Public Services: lack of clean water, collection of human waster (solid or otherwise)
Disease: cholera, typhoid Fire Crime
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The political party that was anti-immigrant
the Know-Nothing Party
Those Americans who opposed Those Americans who opposed immigration were called...immigration were called...
•...nativists
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What is a reformer?
A reformer is a person or a group that desires to change and improve society.
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Revival or rebirth of religious feeling in America during the late 1790’s and early 1800’s
The Second Great Awakening
The preacher who excited Americans with fiery sermons that promoted personal responsibilty
Charles Grandison Finney
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Prison Reformers and their goals Dorthea Dix: promoted professional help for the
mentally ill instead of imprisonment. Josiah Quincy: wanted different punishments for
juvenile offenders. Other s wanted to eliminate overcrowding,
provide sanitary conditions, and prison education.
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Education Reform
varies community to community, social group to social groupNew England typically had more schools than most areas. The west and south had the least. Conditions also varied between local communities and different groups based upon sex, race, and economic class
Condition in schools across the states can best be described as: (Pick one answer)-- equally good throughout the states and regions -- equally bad everywhere-- varies state to state, region to region-- varies community to community, social group to social group
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What was the Common School Movement?
Horace Mann wanted: all children taught with equal opportunity in
school. Wanted better trained teachers and longer
school year Larger budget for education
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Two names in education for women
Catherine Beecher: opened fist all female academy in Hartford, Conn.
Emma Willard (1821) Opened the first college level institution for women...Troy Female Seminary
Who founded the first free American school for the deaf?
Thomas Gallaudet
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Abolition is...
the reform movement determined to end slavery. Some wished to end it on religious grounds (like the Quakers) while other believed that it was unconstitutional and stood against the principle espoused in the Declaration of Independence.
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What were the contributions of William Lloyd Garrison?
published the first anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831 founded the American Anti-Slavery Society which demanded the
immediate emancipation of slaves and racial equality.
What were the contributions of Angelina What were the contributions of Angelina and Sarah Grimke?and Sarah Grimke? Two white southern sister who published anti-slavery
works including the very influential American Slavery As It Is.
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Former slave whose book become a best seller in Europe. Known as the most powerful abolitionist speaker.
the great Frederick Douglas published the antislavery newspaper, North Star wrote several autobiographies pointing out the
injustices of slavery the most sought after anti-slavery orator
(speaker) of his time
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Who is the “female” Frederick Douglas?
Sojourner Truth: a spokesperson for abolition and women’s rights. Believed God had called her to speak out!
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The most famous conductor on the underground railroad. Known as the Moses of her people
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Secrete routes that escaping slaves followed north to freedom...
The Underground Railroad
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize this important woman rights conventon in 1848...
Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls New York
This important abolitionist also attended and spoke...
Sojourner Truth
This important abolitionist also attended and spoke. This important document written there outlined the social injustices toward women and 18 charges against men...
Declaration of Sentiments
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Know as the “first who really stirred the nation’s heart on the subject of women’s wrongs.”
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony supported:
equal work, equal pay freedom to enter traditional male dominated professions (eg.,law) reform women’s property rights
The right for women to vote was called:
suffrage Those women who supported it were called suffragettes
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Arts and Culture
Transcendentalists
They believed that people could rise above materialism... Who are these folks
He wrote a book called Walden. It extoled the virtue of living in nature to get in touch with God and one’s self...
Henry David Thoreau
His essay proposed that to change unjust laws, citizens simply disobey them until the law becomes unenforceable. This is called..
Civil Disobedience
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Wrote the famous essay called Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some transcendentalists tried living in theses idealistic communities...
utopian communes
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Early in the 1800’s, there developed an artistic movement that emphasized nature. It was called...
Romanticism
These painters focused on the beauty of the American landscape... Hudson River School of art: founder-Thomas Cole
This movement also spread to authors during this era...this author’s attention was on the villages and people of the America
This author’s themes dealt with the “noble savage,” the native Americans
Washington Irving who wrote Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman
James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans
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This author wrote a novel based puritan colonial history in Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel was called...
Invented the detective and mystery genres
He wrote the famous eerie poem called..
Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven
The Scarlet Letter
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe greatest poet of the time was
He wrote... The collection called Leaves of Grass The Song of Hiawatha
The most famous female poet of the time was Emily Dickenson