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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life in America 184O -1860

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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life in America 184O -1860

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    1. Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life in America 184O -1860

    10. Life, Culture, and Customs in America 184O I. The Antebellum North A. Immigration B. Rise of Nativism C. Economic Expansion D. Growth of Railroads and Industry 1. By 1860 2/3’s of U.S. Rail roads were in the North and Midwest helped cities grow, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis 2. By 1860 U.S. was the 3rd most industrialized nation in the world E. The Growth of American Cities

    11. II. Technology and economic Growth A. Agricultural Advancements B. Technological and Industrial Growth -Samuel Morse and the Telegraph -Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin - the factory System C. The Rail Road Boom D. Rising Prosperity 1. lower prices 2. Growth of towns and cities 3. Women and children workers 4. Immigration and migration

    12. III. Increase in Quality of life for many A. Privacy at home B. Changes in Housing -Row Houses -increase in land values C. Better Furniture D. Better Heating and Cooking and diet F. Better Water and Sanitation F. Disease and Health Problems continued IV. Democratic Pastimes A. News Papers (4 pages long) B. Popular novels C. The Theater -novels became plays D. Minstrel Shows E. P. T. Barnum

    13. V. The American Renaissance 1820 - 1860 A. The growth of American Literature 1. Romanticism 2. Neoclassicism 3. Transcendentalism B. Father of American Renaissance - Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Birth Place of American Renaissance - New England D. Leading Authors of Renaissance wrote fiction and non-fiction -New England Writers 1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 3. James Russell Lowell 4. John Greenleaf Whittier 5. Walt Whitman 6. George Bancroft

    14. 7. William Hickling Prescott 8. Francis Parkman 9. John Lothrop 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne 11. Henry David Thoreau 12. Margaret Fuller 13. Louisa May Alcott -Little Women 14. Emily Dickinson 15. Herman Melville 16. Washington Irving 17. James Fenimore Cooper -Southern Writers 1. William Gilmore Simms 2. Edgar Allen Poe 3. Augustus B. Longstreet 4. Johnson J. Looper 5. Mark Twain

    15. VI. The Magnificent Seven A. James Fenimore Cooper B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Walt Whitman E. Nathaniel Hawthorne F. Herman Melville G. Edgar Allen Poe

    16. VII. American Painting - The Hudson River School A. Painted Landscapes 1. Thomas Cole 2. Asher Durand 3. Frederic Church VIII. The Diffusion of American Literature and Art A. Public Schools B. Lyceums C. Lectures D. The West Opposed the American Renaissance

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