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CH 203 American Experience, South questioning of the enlightenment -…
CH 203 American Experience
American Dream
Power
Money
Valuing large amounts of wealth
Massive gap between poor and rich
Individual Success
Ability to overcome your own circumstances
Idealistic Utopia
Utopia is non attainable
Marco Rubio
Idea of American Success
Self Success
Anybody Can become successful
City on a Hill
Meaning America As a beacon everyone can look to
Quoted incorrectly
Puritans
John Winthrop
City on a Hill
Sodom and Gomorrah
Entered a covenant with God
Some were elect chosen by God
If good things happened to you, you were chosen by God
Thought they could save the english church
Mary Rowlandson
Illustrator And Writer
Represented Puritan Ideas
Helped develop the American Idea of success
Wrote autobiography of being taken in by the Native Americans
Enlightenment
Based on rational thinking
Ben Franklin
Auto-Biography
Self Made Man
Dismantling Old Systems
Natural Rights/Inalienable Rights
Property, Life, Liberty
Government Can't Interfere with these rights
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Response against enlightenment
Thoreau
Believes that the Best Goverments are the ones that govern the least
Civil Disobedience
Your Conscience should come before the law
Not Allow unjust laws to prevail
Brown's Trial
Believes Trial Was Unjust
Had No Peers
Compares Him to Christ
People concerned on the fruits of their labor
Edgar Allen Poe
Scientific Skeptic
North questioning of the enlightenment
US Constitution
Shay's Rebellion
Led By Veteran Daniel Shays
Poor Farmers Banded Together
Did not want to pay for taxes
Abigail Adams
Remember the Ladies
Making Of American Ideals
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
About the reasons why America should become its own Nation
Start of seeing America as a large nation that should command respect
Viewing bigness as a form of success
Law Is King
Scientific
Crèvecœur
What is an American?
Melting Pot of Cultures
Individualism
The American Farmer
Anthropological View
Looking at Strength and Weaknesses of America
Cultural Changes of the mid-late 1800's
Jacob Riis
Interested in the Slums
Made documentary 'How the Other Half Lives'
Early form of muckrakcing journalism
Made for reform, but ended being more of a specticle and invasion of privacy
Showed how multiple different ethnicites lived in poverty
Supported the idea that the living condtions led to immoral and wicked behavior
Focused on children
Andrew Carnegie
Ceo of Carneige Steel
One of the first Monopolys
One of the first millionaires, self made, and heralded as the wealthiest man in the world
A leading Philanthropist, founds many institutions
Believes in the socal responsibilty of the wealthy
Writes Gospel of Wealth
Believes that main way to help society is to support local institutions where society can better themselves
Horatio Alger
Best Selling Author of the 19th Centurary
Mainly wrote Rags-to-Riches Novels
Ragged Dick
Following young boy from his low standing to becoming an upstanding man
Characterized as a good kid who grew up in a bad enviroment
Feeds into idea of how to become an upstanding memeber of society and teaching young boys the right lessons
Wrote for Children
Changes after the Civil War
America became industrialized, with electric, steel, and rail roads
Increased mechanization of most things
American became diverse with multiple classes
Wealthy Class at the top, typically factory owners
Middle class mainly composed of upper managers
Working class composed of Immigrants and Migrants that worked at the factories
Most people moving form the rural areas to cities
Fears of this Time
Multiple Financial Panics Occur
Large influx of immigrants leading to fears of who is being let in to the country
Rise of Communisim In Russia
1886 Haymarket Bombing leading to further fears of immigrants
Industrial Modernity
Henry Ford
Owner of the Ford Car Company
Standardized Labor
Used the assmebly line to make cars
Payed well, and made a cheaper product
Heavy anti-semite beliefs
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Seen as an efficeincy Expert
Made 'One Best Way'
Inefficiency seen as national crisis
Waster of respurces
Causing change in way factories were handled
Chaplin's Modern Times
Made during the depression
Made to protest against factory systems
Made as a critque to how poor immigrants were treated
Big Focus on Engineering as the way to Utopia
Solving Labor Problems vs. Trying to divide capital and management
Regualting tasks seen as way to increase efficeincy and inrease happiness of workers
Mangment seen as a science
Making America and Americans
Second Industrial Revolution
Standardiziation of Factory Systems
Increase in Labor Movements
Triangle Shirtwaist FIre, casuing deaths of over 140 workers, casues more movements to occur
Rise in Consumerism
Rise of Giant Buisnesses
Furhter increase of people moving into the cities
U.S Imperialism
U.S social changes
25 million immigrants in America
Increase in leisure time and disposable income
New entertainment teachnology and more ways to be entertained
Women in Public more
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
Compares The statue of Liberty to the Colossus of Rhodes
The New Colossus, represents the new world
The New Colossus welcomes immigrants and accepts them
Alice Guy Blache
Made 'Making an American Citizen"
Shows Immigrants as backwards, abuseing their wife etc..
Shows them becoming more American, by changing the way they think and becoming more ingrained in the American way of life
E.A. Ross
Argues against immigration
Argues for womens rights
Views America as the place where women find newfound freedom
Views Immigrant males as something that will hurst the American Society
Supporter of Eugenics
Chinese Exclusion Act
1875 Page Act
Chinese Women had to Prove they were not prostitutes
Had to carry papers around to prove you could stay in America
Sui SIn Far
'Its Wavering Image'
About a Chinese women and her expierence in China Town and the problems Chinese American Women have to Face
Chinese Mother, English Father, Immigrated from Canada
Career made out of writing about Chinese-American community
American Youth and the making of Americans
Changing of Gender Norms
Culture of Physical Movement of Sports
Men being pushed into sports and wondering on what seems most manly
Neuresthenia
This was defined as an anxiety disorder, of physical and mental exhasution
Percriptions for it, were change in work, rest, diet, and stimulation
Different perscritptions were given to men and women
It mainly effected the upper class
It cropped up in the late 1800's
The idea of the human body as a 'battery' that must be recharged
Concerns about your battery being depeted from daily life
Anxiety about the dissappearence of the white race
Talks of eugenics and hoe to save the white race
Teddy Roosevelt
Creating the Big Stick Foreign Policy
Supporting the idea of ideal boy
A good boy being described as someone being clean, brave, and mainly
Says that boys need to not be so cooped up inside and go out more
Establishes National Park System, protecting 230,000,000 acres of land
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author, Sociologist, Economist, and Socal Reformer
Contracts Neuarshtenia
Divorces and gives up daughter
Commits suicide while having cancer diagnosis
The Jazz Age
Jazz Everywhere
Large Amount of Drinking through Probation
U.S. gains a large amount of wealth after WWII
President Warren G Harding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Echoes on Morality
Lack of interest in politics
Everyone was occupied with having sex
America set their own standards for what was fashionable
: American writer, crtical of the Jazz age, focused on morality and the hedonism at the time
Echoes of the Middle Class
People immigrating to america are no ling people trying to start a new life
Increase of wealthy europeans
American Consumerism
Cheaply made goods
Mass advertising
Mass media influence
Dale Carnegie
American writer in self help
Shift from technical to social skills
Acting successful leads to success
Being both individualist and conformist
Personal growth cannot happen without societal growth
Great Depression
1929-1939
Black Tuesday
High suicide rates
Suburbia of the 1950s
Post WWII, return to normalcy
Cold War
Red Scare
Conformity as a response to the problems of the time
Ralph G Martin
American Jounalist, authored many books, prominent best seller
Great migration to suburbs
Devleopment quickly sprung up
Everyone in simlar age groups, income brackets, and family size
No need to "Keep up with the Jones'" Since everyone is so similar
VA loan to create housing for returning war veterans
Lavender Scare
Parallel to Red Scare
Fear of living a double life
Lack of gay rights
South questioning of the enlightenment
