1. Chapter 7 Jefferson
Vision and Reality
What was Jefferson and the Republicans
vision?
What was the reality?
What about his stance on the Federal
Government?
Who would be the true leaders?
2. Patterns of Education
⢠What would keep everyone togetherâif you
donât have a strong federal government?
⢠âvirtuous and enlightened citizenryâ
⢠âcrusade against ignoranceâ
⢠A seed was planted
3. ⢠Schooling became the responsibility of private
institutionsâwho received an education?
⢠Poor?
⢠Women?
⢠âPaternal vision of societyâ?
white men preside benevolently over
everyone else
4. Republican Motherhood
⢠But what about the mothers?âeducate the women
but only to make them better wives and mothersâno
advance schooling
⢠1784 Judith Sargent Murray
⢠-equal in intellect and potential
⢠-same educational opportunities than men
⢠-same economic opportunities
⢠-establish a separate sphere for herself
⢠How was she viewed at the time?
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5. Native Americans
⢠ânoble savagesâ not ânecessarily inferiorâ
⢠Educate to assimilate-who?
⢠African Americans?
7. The Practice of Medicine
⢠University of Pennsylvania-Benjamin Rush
⢠Practitioners
⢠Bleeding and purging
8. Cultural Aspirations
⢠In terms of Culture, what did Americans want?
⢠We were politically independent and now we
wanted to be culturally independent
⢠What does that look like?
12. Reasons for Decline
⢠The Revolution
⢠--secular affair
⢠--promoting separation of church and state
⢠--human logic
⢠âuniversalism and Unitarianismâ
⢠Only about 10% of white Americans during
this time were members of a Church
⢠SooooooooooooooâŚ..
13. Second Great Awakening
⢠The First Great Awakening emphasized Calvinist
traditions and the deep depravity of human beings
and believed they could only be saved through the
grace of God.
⢠S.G.A. placed a greater emphasis on humansâ ability to
change their situation for the better-asserting their
âfree willâ-in choosing to be saved âeveryone could be
savedâsalvation through good worksâmore
optimistic.
⢠Women and African Americans participate and play a
more active role
⢠Outcome: reform movement-slavery-moral issue
14. Stirrings of Industrialization
⢠While the US was busy winning its
independence, England was in the process of
an industrial revolution.
⢠And in the US????
⢠Samuel Slater-spinning mill
⢠Oliver Evans-automated flour mill
⢠Eli Whitney-cotton gin and interchangeable
parts
15. Trade and Transportation
⢠To becoming industrial, a country needs a
system for transporting raw materials to
factories and finished goods to market.
⢠Markets??
⢠Transporting??
⢠Oliver Evans, John Fitch, James Watt and
Robert Fultonâsteamboat
⢠Turnpikes