Over view of toward an American culture

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Over view of toward an American culture

• Chapter 10

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Do Now

• Imagine you are living in Warren, NJ in 1806.
  What would your life be like?
• Describe your typical day for this time period.

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The North

• Middle Class formed from the Industrial/Market
  Revolutions
• Religious revivals
• Charles Finney
• Rochester, NY
• Go back to old Puritan beliefs

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Change of Family life

• Mothers not fathers became the child-rearers
• Children raised with love not fear
• Christian beliefs
• Less children/farther apart

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Leisure Activities

• Books/Magazines produced on mass scale
• Godeys Ladys Book-1st mass circulating magazine
  for women
• Sentimental novels.
• Thoreaus Walden
• Uncle Toms Cabin

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Northern Plain folk

• Did not go for the religious revivals/change in
  households
• Joseph Smith-Book of Mormon
• Formed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
  Saints (1830s) called Mormons
• Male dominance
• Theocratic government

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Popular culture

• Blood sports
• Cock fighting
• Dog fighting

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Popular culture

• Boxing
• Popular 1840s-1850s
• Ethnicities fought against each other
• Irish English
• Theater
• Became popular
• Traveling shows
• Seats separated by class
• Could get rowdy

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Popular Culture

• Minstrel shows
• Racist
• Variety acts
• Novels and Penny Press
• Newspapers for a penny
• Became popular-widespread
• Sensational stories (National Inquirer of today)

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Southern families

• Whites regarded themselves as representatives of
  their families.
• Children-duty was to their familys reputation

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entertainment

• Played cards, held boxing/wrestling matches
• Books did not address them directly (no
  publishers in the rural South)
• Most families read the Bible
• Wealthy families read European books

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Religion

• Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian
• Held Southern camp meetings
• Limited to a single denomination
• Women would bake for them
• Spiritual conversion