Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880 (A NATION DIVIDED (The North had…
CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION
1855-1880
THREE AMERICANS
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
Whitman generated new rhythms and forms
Whitman became America's greatest poet.
Dickinson's poetry was quieter, drier and crisper
Dickinson's voice has irony and reveals sensibility.
Twain was able to talk about mining camps, daring riverboat pilots and back water towns.
Twain wrote in a language that opened a new mine of American literature.
A NATION DIVIDED
The North had secured prosperity through manufacturing and commerce by the middle of the century.
In the north cities had a lot of jobs to offer and a lot of workers.
On the South the economy was based on the agriculture depending on cotton, the slave system and low tariffs.
The Northern and Southern ways of life seemed irreconcilable.
Willian Lloyd Garrison attacked slavery every week in his newspaper, The Liberator.
HarrietBeecher touched peoples emotions with Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Would the state be slave or free?
In December of 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union then, six more states followed
Civil War
April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee, General surrendered to the Union commander.
EXPANSION AND CELEBRATION
The South goes through a reconstruction period
Elsewhere the end of the war was celebrated
In the North cities opened again.
The postwar period is also known as the Gilded Age by Mark Twain.
The two decades after the war were a time of technological progress.
The west was wild, exciting and new
The newspaper editor Horace Greeley was credited "Go west, young man"
The young poet Walt Whitman was working as a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle.
near the middle of the nineteenth century the American showman P.T. Barnum returned from Europe.
Like many Americans Barnum realizes that America is full of life.
