American Culture In The Early 1800s

     During 1790-1860, there were many reformations taking place and many events that lead up to the reformation of this very inexperienced country, of America. All these events effected the United States different ways and caused many grievances for the young people living in America. In 1790 we firmly incorporated the first American cotton mill which led to the economic augmentation of the United States. In 1791 we established the Capital of the United States in Washington D.C., and Alexander Hamilton establishes the first bank of America. In 1794 in Pennsylvania there was an uprising called the Whiskey Rebellion. People were rejecting the taxes on their way of life, and that was whiskey.

Department stores, Chain stores, and mail order's houses were how retail sales and distribution techniques of the late nineteenth century made goods and conveniences formerly enjoyed by city dwellers available to Americans in small towns and the countryside. Americans no longer had to make their own clothes but, now they had the leisure of picking and buying clothes from a department store. Due to chain stores buying in preparing food had changed. A new industry of packing and selling foods had been invented. The mass production and new development of tin can had inspired an industry of canned foods. Refrigerated railroad cars and iceboxes made it possible for perishable food items to be kept fresh. These developments brought a healthy improvement

Everyday Life in Early America was written by David Freeman Hawke, a professor of American History at Lehman College. He was seventy-five years old when he passed away in 1999. Hawke carried multiple degrees from Swarthmore College, University of Wisconsin, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a highly regarded historical scholar with a talent for writing. Hawke already had several books published by the time he wrote Everyday Life in Early America in 1988. These books include: The Colonial Experience (1966), In the Midst of a Revolution (1961), Paine (1974), and Franklin (1976). His other book, “Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfy” was a biography nominated for National Book Award in 1972.

The 18th Century in colonial America was a time of change, both within the continent of North America and from the Old World that was Europe. Ever since the establishment of some of the first colonies, colonists viewed themselves as such: colonists. However, as the 17th Century passes into the 18th, and as the new century went on, colonists viewed themselves as something else: Americans. These Americans developed new beliefs that alienated themselves from their fellow Europeans, and as war escalated between France and Great Britain, this feeling was reaffirmed when these Americans came together to defend their colonies. Nonetheless, this sense of unity and self identity would not stop after the conclusion of the Seven Year 's War, but it

A sense of unity filled the United States of America after they gained independence by winning the Revolutionary War. This sense of unity, however, did not last forever. Rather than having disputes with Britain, the United States began to have disputes among its three "sections" - the north, south, and west. Starting with the War of 1812, sectionalism began as a small rift but grew into a huge gap that separated the north, south, and west.

AAmerica began as a small struggling nation, with each citizen desiring an opportunistic way of life. To achieve this way of life, many changes needed to be made. Different people with distinctive ideas came together, and although there was conflict, they made great changes politically, socially, and economically. Each aspect changed America tremendously in a variety of ways. Analyzing each specific change can determine the extent in which America has changed for better or for worse.

44. The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of the spread of printing technology.

During the 1800's America was figuring out how to run a nation through trial and error. During this period of time America faced hardships with foreign powers and with in its self, but the sweet victories made them all worth it. In the 1800's America learned to stand on its own, and became the strong nation it is today.

Becoming America The American culture, a unique culture. What defines “American.” Americans are defined by events in the 1800’s.

There was much change coming to the United States of America. Towns were booming with population and technology was reaching new heights. There were many that could not farm or produce agriculture anymore due to the poor soil. Women were not being educated, but were expected to make money. Many women were leaving the rural areas to go to the urban areas to work in the textile mills. Thousands were going to Lowell, Massachusetts, which was the epicenter for mills during the 1820s to the 1860s.

During the early to mid nineteenth century, the new Americans expanded their territories westward and developed four new territories: Texas, Oregon, Utah, and California. Explorers, traders and trappers pushed into the unknown lands before settlers. These men were tremendously tough in body and mind. They learned Indian survival methods in the wild, and could stand months of isolation. Trappers, or “mountain men” were the most independent of all the frontiersmen; loners who had turned their back on settled life. It was their stories of trails and passes through mountains that helped government explorers to map the new lands properly.

American exceptionalism is the idea that the American people are somehow better than others. This belief is so engrained in our society that we don’t think anything of it, or if we do we don’t think of it as a negative part of our culture. We consider being the melting pot of the world to be something great. On the surface, being the melting pot of the world is good; we bring many different people and cultures together. But when you think critically about it, you realize that because of power imbalances and other problems like racism, sexism, or other forms of bigotry, it becomes an assimilation of cultures rather than an equal mixing together.

Growing up, I often heard my grandfather use the phrase “we’ve filled our Jew quota,” a denial that was still a vivid reminder of the discrimination he experienced in his youth. My grandfather was an historian of nineteenth-century America, a proponent of multiculturalism, a Jew by birth, and one of my biggest role models. He was the person who would take me to the bookstore, then watch patiently as I preceded to pull every book off the shelf, yelled “open sesame” at every garage door, and whose passion for his work and his students convinced me by the age of eight that being a teacher and a scholar was the greatest honor in the world. My grandfather was many things, including someone who despite excelling academically and athletically while attending a primarily Protestant boarding school, was denied admission to the university of his choice due to the unspoken yet well-known religious quotas practiced in some colleges at the time.

The historical time period greatly affected our culture in the following ways. Despite the other advances in technology in the rest of the world, the Supercalifragilisicexpialidoucians were not acquainted with the sudden advances. Although maps existed in 1631, the time of migration of the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocians, they were not as advanced as the ones we are used to today. Because they entire world had not been discovered yet there were many empty spaces. Cartographers, or map makers, wanted to fill that empty space so they filled them with legends from sailors like a sea monster or sirens. Communication with other cultures was limited due to language barriers. Also there were not many ways for information

I go into the main hall and my husband and 2 youngest sons are all dressed in their white linens and I have on my beautiful long white linen dress as well. Whenever we greet all of the common people of our land who are not part of the Ten Royal Tribes we normally dress as commonly as they do. I grab hold of my husband and one of my sons’ hand and we walk out together. We go down to the chariot where six majestic horses are neighing and impatiently waiting for our arrival. I see my eldest daughter in the chariot dressed in her white linens and she smiles and waves us over. I have 3 daughters and 4 sons. All of the other nations were always envious of how my people can stay so youthful and have many children while our figures and faces remain