14-1 – Geography and Early Cultures pages 384-389
8-3 – American Culture- Pages 270-273
Essential Question: As the United States grew, how did developments in many cultural areas contribute to the creation of a new American identity?
Main Idea 1:
American writers created a new style of literature.
Washington Irving
• Wrote about American history
• Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle” attempted to warn that Americans should learn from the past and be cautious about the future.
• Combined European influences with American settings and characters
James Fenimore Cooper
• Focused on American characters and society
• Wrote stories about the western frontier and Native Americans
• He popularized historical fiction, a type of writing that places fictional characters in actual historical settings.
Main Idea 2:
A new style of art showcased the beauty of America and its people.
• Due to the writings of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper-
• Painters in the United States began to show the history and natural beauty of America in their work.
• The subjects of American paintings changed from the 1830’s to the 1840’s.
• Early American artists had painted mainly portraits, but the new style of art involved painting landscapes that showed the history of America and the beauty of the land.
• Hudson River School
o Emerged in 1830s
o Founded by landscape painter Thomas Cole
o Students created paintings that reflected national pride and beauty of American landscape
Art in the 1840s
• The style of art began to change in the 1840s.
• Artists tried to combine images of the American landscape and scenes of people’s daily lives.
• Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, by George Caleb Bingham, is an important example of this new style.
• The inclusion of scenes from people’s everyday lives in landscape painting was a new development in American art.
Main Idea 3:
American ideals influenced other aspects of culture, including religion and music.
• In the early 1800s, American music focused on religion and national pride.
• Religious revivalism swept the United States in the early and mid-1800s.
• Spirituals—songs based on text from the Bible—became popular in both African American and white folk-music traditions.
• Popular folk music reflected the unique views of the growing nation and rising nationalism.
• American architects modeled buildings after the style of ancient Greece and Rome.
• These civilizations were based on some of the same political ideals as the new American nation.
• In the early 1800s, the new American culture’s views on education were reflected by education reforms.
• The new American culture was a democracy that needed educated and informed citizens to survive, so public schools were supported.
• The idea of state-funded public schools gained support.
o Massachusetts created state board of education in 1837, and other states followed
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