A Changing America 1830 1860 Population Growth Population grown due to birth rate and better hygiene But the main source of population growth was form immigrants o Immigration and Urban Growth Number 1 ethnic group is German most prominent More than the English Huge wave of immigration Mainly Irish and German immigrants This means a high increase in Catholics You see a rise in population in cities Begin to see urban growth South is stuck in time at this time period The North is taking off Most represented ancestry is German Mostly agrarian despite growing cities o Nativism See a rise in Nativism Fear and concern over the increase of immigration There is an anti immigrant movement Argue that these new immigrants are racially inferior They argue that they are schwuieng and corrupting American politics Believe they are easily manipulated They believe they are manipulated by politicians who will give them alcohol food and stuff Believe these immigrants are stilling jobs from Native Americans Americans born here Believe the Catholics will be more loyal to the pope in Rome and are controlled by the pope then they re to the American government Believe they bring radical ideas Concerned because of the political ideology differences Get the Native American Party or the Know Nothing Party 54 is the height of nativism with the know nothing party get the most votes it has in the past Corporations Begin to see early forms of corporations due to legal advancements made o General Incorporation You fill out a small application and pay a fee That s it Means that more corporations will be started o Limited Liability Laws You can only use what is lost Railroads and the Telegraph o Most booming corporation One of the most important invention in United States history o At this time they re cutting edge technology Believe that are living a in an incredible time period o 1830 first strip of railroad to be laid down in American history o Will take over for canals Much easier to build e railroad o South didn t cooperate and trains were used in combat o This doesn t happen without the government since they give ways fee land to them This is private enterprise dn United States congress o Beigns to dictate o Town are not being built because of water tehyare built around the railroad o Shipping goods was cheaper o Telegraph is another rimportant even Began to send electric pulses over The Second Great Awakening Huge religious movement Peaks throughout the 1920 s 40s People following this moment is are elite evangelicals Message is that every individual that is capable of salvation throught their own efforts There was a emphasis on a personal connection with God There a contesting with with lord as it was personal and one on one Have outdoor revivals Giver sermons that re memorized with no Have an emotional connection with God This is where that emotional and physical Christianity Most important thing is the explosion of denominations Became a more Christian community than in the past The rise indemnity Two schools of thoughts If you could fix society then you can bring Believe you must try to protect society o Revivals o Charles ag Finney and Lyman Beecher Leaders of the Second Great wakening Prominent analyst and involved in the abolitionist and women s rights movement Beecher was he is nativist and an anti Catholic Protestant movement o Membership increased and demon actions xrploseded o Promoted the idea of creating heaven on earth The Shaker and the Mormons o The Shakers Believe there will be a golden age The leader is a woman named Mother Ann Lee and had been persecuted Defective Baptist followers Mother Ann Lee was done with England and left for the United Sates Believe that God has a dual personality a masculine and feminine side The feminine side was her Must live in a state of continual perfection Working hard and praying Live in dormitories separated by sex Lived in celibacy and that they would save society Had a ritual dance in which they would shake and believed they were riding their body of sin Died off because they didn t make babies in which would follow their paths or babies to indoctrinate with Refrained from sexual behaviors o Mormons Joseph Smith Main goal believe in establishing a righteous society that wil be a model society Violence between the Mormons and national government Will attack if you get too close Utopian Societies o Secular Religious Societies Experiments in communal living Influenced by transcendentalism o Transcendentalism Modern society is corrupting human beings Remove yourself form this artificial rhythm of life Reject modern systems of life We are imprisoned by material needs You work to pay your phone bill instead of your phone working for you Monogamy is a modern restriction and that they are not naturally monogamous Modern society has created artificial ways of life o Brook Farm and New Harmony villages of cooperation Brook farm Massachusetts New Harmony Indiana Get involved in some type of manufacturing and share equally in the profits If everyone gets equal profits then you have more time for freedom and to enjoy life They all failed None of them made profit They evolve to hierarchy Reform Movements o Public Health and Sylvester Graham Sylvester Graham was an advocate for public health If we are collectively healthy as a whole then less money has to be spent on it Had weird ideas about sexuality Wants us to abide of sexual behaviors Has good ideas advocated of bathing We should all bathe on a regulate abasis o Public Education and Horace Mann Horace Mann advocated for tax supported public schools Not matter your class or wealth every child should have a basic education Only wealthty people who could hire a private tutor could get education Wealth re distrubtion First secretary of the Massachustettes boar dof education TH ebetter educated the public is the more educated political decisions people can make They go ahnd in hand By the 1850s some sste will have some sort of public school stsem o o o o You cnat be taken advantage od if you are smart Dorthea Dix Advocated for disbaeld and mentally illed Their treatment during this tiem period They were put into cages beaten edt We need to find out what works and what doesn t work Set up a school for the death and blind They Are all involved in this refomovement A community of reformers Women s Rights Movement Woman s suffrage movement Many realize they must fight for the right to vote Seneca Falls Convention 1848
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