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America grows and changes – from 1790 - 1850

America grows and changes – from 1790 - 1850. By: Mrs. Camuto and Mr. Cook. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES!. *Changes in where people lived *Changes in people’s social class *Changes in Art and Literature *Changes in Education *Changes in the family

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America grows and changes – from 1790 - 1850

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  1. America grows and changes –from 1790 - 1850 By: Mrs. Camuto and Mr. Cook

  2. SOCIAL AND CULTURALCHANGES! *Changes in where people lived *Changes in people’s social class *Changes in Art and Literature *Changes in Education *Changes in the family *Changes in the roles of men and women *Changes in treatment of Native Americans *Changes in immigration

  3. Changes in ART! • In art, the Hudson River School movement started. • This was the first time American painters like ThomasCole, attempted their own style. • They focused on landscapes. • They “broke away” from England’s painters style! • Began to give America it’s own identity! Realistic paintings of landscapes!

  4. Changes in LITERATURE! • American writers began to write using American themes! • Famous novels like: The Legend ofSleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and • The Last of theMohicans by James Fenimore Cooper became well known! • Like the movement in art, it started to give America it’s own identity! James Fenimore Cooper Washington Irving

  5. REMOVAL POLICY(Changes in treatment of Native Americans) • The white man wanted the Native American’s land so they basically took it took and forced them to move. • In 1830, Jackson helped pass the Removal Act. It forced the Native Americans off their land. • In 1838, 15,000 Cherokees were forced to march hundreds of miles from their homes. • They were forced off their land and sent to land west of the Mississippi River. • The march was called the “Trail of Tears” because thousands died along the way; mostly children and the elderly. encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefMedia.

  6. ECONOCMIC CHANGES! • This area deals with HOW America and it’s people made MONEY! • Things that effected this area include . . . • Changes in ways people earned a living • New technology and inventions • Changes in how things were produced • Changes in transportation • Changes in trade encarta.msn.com/media

  7. CHANGES IN EARLY TRANSPORTATION! • Robert Fulton’s 1st. Steamboat, the Clermont, traveled up and down the Hudson River. • It changed the way goods were transported. • Shipping became much faster and cheaper which made more money for the farmers! • Canals like the Erie Canal, allowed farmers and others a way to ship goods cheaply and much. • The canals were manmade and were put in areas which did not have access by a major river.

  8. Other Transportation advances: • In 1806, for the first time ever, Congress passed a law funding a National Road – • The road went from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. • It made travel easier and somewhat quicker. • Other such roads soon followed!

  9. Advances in TECHNOLOGY! • The TELEGRAPH was invented by Samuel Morris. • It worked by sending a series of dots and dashed over a wire. • It improved communication greatly! Messages could be sent in minutes instead of MONTHS! • The SPINNING JENNY was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. • His machine spun eight spools of thread at a time. • Later machines were able to spin eighty at once! • This invention changed the textile industry greatly. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

  10. The FIRST successful FACTORY in the U.S. • Started by Samuel Slater and Moses Brown. • It was a mill which spun yarn. • Slater had memorized how the mills back in England were set up. • He brought that knowledge to the U.S. and helped design the first successful factory in America. www.uh.edu/engines/samslater

  11. Another early American factory success! • Francis Cabot Lowell was a Boston area merchant who found a way to improve on British textile mills. • He put the spinning of thread and the weaving of clothe all in ONE factory. • The factory was started in Lowell Massachusetts in 1821. By 1836, more than 10,000 people lived there. • The project was FINANCED by Lowell and some other business men. They formed the Boston Associates to finance the mill. encarta.msn.com/media_

  12. INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS and The Industrial Revolution! • Eli Whitney came up with the idea of INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS! • His idea was to use a machine to make all parts the same! • This saved time and money in production. • His idea helped the Industrial Revolution really grow! encarta.msn.com/media

  13. CHANGES IN FOREIGN POLICY • America went from Washington’s idea of “staying isolated” to the idea of NEUTRALITY. • Our goal was to trade with ALL countries yet we wanted to stay out of their problems / “fights”.

  14. Monroe Doctrine • President Monroe was concerned that European nations would try to establish colonies in South America. • He made a BOLD statement telling Europeans to stay out of Latin America. • America’s military was not really strong enough to really uphold such a policy however we had the backing of England. • We still wanted to keep trading with all nations. • This statement by Monroe helped shape America’s foreign policy for over 100 years! encarta.msn.com/media

  15. CHANGES IN POLITICS

  16. CHANGES IN OUR LAND(the way America looks) • Americans had the BELIEF of Manifest Destiny. • This was the BELIEF that the United States had the right and the duty to expand form Ocean to Ocean. • Americans did this many different ways: 1.) bought land 2.) through wars / treaties 3.) took it (especially from the Native Americans) Moving from ocean to ocean!

  17. The LOUISIANA PURCHASE • This purchase was made by Thomas Jefferson in 1803. • He spent $15 million on about 800,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. • This almost doubled the size of the United States. encarta.msn.com/media

  18. Explorers of the Louisiana Territory • Once Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory, he needed someone to explore the land. • Lewis and Clark were sent out to map out the land, study the wildlife and study the Natives living there. • Pike also explored the territory. He left about one year after Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark had help exploring! Pike also explored this territory and had Pike’s Peak named after him!

  19. Know the following court cases! • (know what they did and why they were important!) • Worcester vs. Georgia • Gibbons vs. Ogden • Marbury vs. Madison (This case made the Supreme Court stronger by giving it the power of Judicial Review)

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