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CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880 (Nation Divided :explode: (Actions made…
CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880
Nineteenth Century in America
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Barnum known as "American showman P. T." returned from a tour of Europe
The poet Walt Whitman interviewed and asked Barnum if Europe was better that America. And he said America had more life
For Barnum, America was flourishing and full of life
The transplanting of traditions, costumes and ideas from Europe to America was successful
Also United Stated faced its Civil War in which divide America against itself for the first time
Nation Divided
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America divide in two
North
Economy had prosperity through commerce and manufacturing
Factories grow
Strong federal governments
Cities fulled of work and workers
South "
The economy remain in the agriculture
Depended in
Cotton exports
Slavery
Low tariffs
Their way of life and rights of the states were doted on Jeffersonian democracy
Actions made before the Civil War
The Abolitionist became more and more vociferous
William Lloyd Garrison attacked slavery in his newspaper
The Liberator
every week
Every year the debates became more aggressive
Harriet Becker moved many people emotions with the book
Uncle Tom's Cabin
When new western state entered the Union, a decision had to be made and it was if the state will be slave or free?
When Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860. The South states took actions.
In December of the same year South Carolina leave the Union and six more stated followed South Carolina, they joined the New Confederacy
Civil War
Civil War to the nation means "
Cousin against cousin
"
Civil War was fought on land and sea. This war to the nation was a tragedy of the greatest magnitude and left the nation in its most painful legacy
In 1865, Robert Lee, General of the Confederacy Army defeat to the Union Commander.
Expansion and Celebration
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The South was in struggles after the war. Because it had to go through the Reconstruction Periods
The North opened again their gates again
The end of the war was cause of celebration
The postwar period had the name
Gilded Aged
was named by Mark Twain
It was a time in which the nation seemed that it have lost some of it ideals in the chaos of the war
This period was filled of an intense materialism
The two decades after the war were full of rapid technological progress
They witness the competition of many inventions
The invention of the typewriter
The ticker tape
the transcontinental railroad
The light bulb
They had economic development
The age of Robber Barons
The nation finally found strength through the war but lost innocence.
The new source of joy and inspiration was the West.
It was "wild"
It was a frontier, with all the possibilities of an untouched place
People don't think of the Indians. All that matter for them was the great frontier full of dreams and fortune made
Three Americans :silhouettes:
During these years written who used American language emerged and become American literary giants
Emily Dickinson
Her poems deal with the profound matters of New England but her voice take irony and reveals sensibility
The American languages help to shape the sound of Emily Dickinson's poetry but is the tone of the New England speech that are hear in her poems
Mark Twain
Was a product of America Frontier
His stories were able to tell the world of adventures in the language of the people who experienced the story
He wrote in a language that opened a new mine of American literature
He wrote Huckleberry Finn
Walt Whitman
He invented the new expression to describe the American experience
Created the
Song in my Self
that became America's new self-portrait
He generated the new literature demand using new rhythms and forms
He became his country in his poetry
