notes 10/31
Sorry it’s late….. from Friday 10/31
Northern Yankee Middle Class:
New kinds of property owners created by the market revolution
Made up of master craftsmen (factory owners), farmers who worked w/ market, and merchants
Most had family roots in New England
First commercialized farms
First factories
Develop cultural forms that become the core of the emerging business class.
Stand behind independence
Maternal home life
Strong Protestants (newer churches)
Adopt church morals
Reaffirming religious beliefs
Original sin
Divine providence
Sunday church (but ignore beliefs the rest of the week)
Millenium-they believe they make the world perfect for 1000 yrs
Protestant minister: Charles Finney
God made man a moral free state
People will make the world better
Choose right over wrong
Only choose right after religious conversion
Life in 1820’s
Clear distinction between home and public life
Public world was the place where men went (politics/business)
Women exercise new morals in house
Mothers replace fathers as child raiser
Feminized domestic life
Technology
Improvements in printing, and distributing products
Books
Explosion in popular literature
Bibles
Etiquette books
Cook books
Novels (for women)
Housekeeping manuals
Novels: Scarlet letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1820-1830
Educated Americans want art in homes
Want American art and lit.
Leading artists paint landscapes
Landscape painters combine “Hudson River School of art”
Name of the collection of their art.
Wealthy Americans begin to travel the country
Niagara Falls-very popular
Northern Plain Folk:
More then middle class
Subsistence farmers, settlers who moved to Northwest, small farmers (hill country), people who looked for opportunities in cities
Had cultural connections to South
Between 1820-1830-
Irish go to cities
Germans go buy a farm
Germans bring beer
Not a lot of trust in prof. ministers society organization
Believe in Providence- Life is God’s plan, not to much you can do
Didn’t talk much about the millennium
God’s wrath then 1000 yrs of perfection
As a society, they had been bypassed or hurt by market revolution
Ex: journymen
Have doubts about the new economy
Worry about father’s loss of status/authority
Try to maintain paternal status in home
Northern Yankee Middle Class:
New kinds of property owners created by the market revolution
Made up of master craftsmen (factory owners), farmers who worked w/ market, and merchants
Most had family roots in New England
First commercialized farms
First factories
Develop cultural forms that become the core of the emerging business class.
Stand behind independence
Maternal home life
Strong Protestants (newer churches)
Adopt church morals
Reaffirming religious beliefs
Original sin
Divine providence
Sunday church (but ignore beliefs the rest of the week)
Millenium-they believe they make the world perfect for 1000 yrs
Protestant minister: Charles Finney
God made man a moral free state
People will make the world better
Choose right over wrong
Only choose right after religious conversion
Life in 1820’s
Clear distinction between home and public life
Public world was the place where men went (politics/business)
Women exercise new morals in house
Mothers replace fathers as child raiser
Feminized domestic life
Technology
Improvements in printing, and distributing products
Books
Explosion in popular literature
Bibles
Etiquette books
Cook books
Novels (for women)
Housekeeping manuals
Novels: Scarlet letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1820-1830
Educated Americans want art in homes
Want American art and lit.
Leading artists paint landscapes
Landscape painters combine “Hudson River School of art”
Name of the collection of their art.
Wealthy Americans begin to travel the country
Niagara Falls-very popular
Northern Plain Folk:
More then middle class
Subsistence farmers, settlers who moved to Northwest, small farmers (hill country), people who looked for opportunities in cities
Had cultural connections to South
Between 1820-1830-
Irish go to cities
Germans go buy a farm
Germans bring beer
Not a lot of trust in prof. ministers society organization
Believe in Providence- Life is God’s plan, not to much you can do
Didn’t talk much about the millennium
God’s wrath then 1000 yrs of perfection
As a society, they had been bypassed or hurt by market revolution
Ex: journymen
Have doubts about the new economy
Worry about father’s loss of status/authority
Try to maintain paternal status in home
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