The United States: A New Nation, 1776-1836 (Fall 2007)

Wheaton College
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African-Americans Agriculture Arts/Leisure Church/Religious-Activity Education Government Law Native-Americans Race-Relations Science/Technology Slavery Urban-Life/Boosterism War Women

Episodes

  1. Women's Benevolent Societies
    date September 14, 1831map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    On September 14, 1831, members of the Female Assistance Society of New York met to discuss preparations for their charitable work for the upcoming winter. Eighteen years previously, the organization had been founded by wives of high status New York men who wished to do more than simply be an ordinary housewife. The main focus of this non profit organization was to provide as much assistance as possible...

  2. Jump Jim Crow
    date October 15, 1836map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations

    The performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice, the original Jim Crow, introduced new lines for the debut at the Surrey theatre in London in 1836. Rice, a New York native, was performing his highly successful "Jim Crow" act in London after its rave reviews from across the Atlantic. The caricature of "Jim Crow" was meant to represent a low class runaway slave who used cunning to reap the benefits of middleclass...

  3. Female Education: Through Emma C. Emburys Eyes
    date December 10, 1831map KINGS, New Yorktags Education, Women

    The United States' attitude towards the education of women was encapsulated in a speech delivered by Mrs. Emma C. Embury on December 10, 1831. Embury spoke at the anniversary ceremony for the Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies. She pointed out that although schooling was becoming more prevalent across the country, female education and its reputation was still lagging behind the education...

  4. Threshing Machines of Virginia
    date March 16, 1821 to November 2, 1821map FREDERICK, Virginiatags Agriculture, Science/Technology

    In Virginia, during the period before industrial boom, new techniques for threshing wheat were becoming more and more popular. The technique that had remained relatively unchanged since Biblical times was, after the wheat was harvested, to have it trodden upon by horses, cattle, or oxen. This practice was slow, tedious, and left dirty grain that only numbered in about five bushels a day per laborer....

  5. Phillis Wheatly and a Nations Refuge in Religion
    date May 23, 1827map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On May 23, 1827, more than forty years after it was first published, Phillis Wheatly's short poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," was republished in Zion's Herald, an independent Methodist newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. "Remember Christians Negroes black as Cain/May be refined, and join the angelic train": this last line of Wheatly's poem refers to her own emergence into...

  6. A Day in the Museum: A Review of the Philadelphia Museum
    date November, 1804tags Arts/Leisure

    Birds, mammals, fossils, insects, skeletons, paintings; all of these objects could be gazed upon with wonder within C.W. Peale's Philadelphia Museum of 1804. The Museum was one of the first of its kind and had been founded in 1785. Through a series of seven different rooms, a visitor was greeted with hours of entertainment and knowledge. By entering the "Long Room," one was dazzled by hundreds...

  7. Early Education
    date December, 1831map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Education

    In a country where education had no pull in society, one school dared to break the mold. Every morning, between fifty and sixty students between the ages of three and five made their way to a school in central Bermuda that was established in 1831. Mostly the offspring of slaves, the children were given an opportunity at improving their quality of life. Students were taught the basics of education:...

  8. Presbyterianism and the Creation of Cherokee Sovereignty
    date July 6, 1831 to March 3, 1832map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Government, Law, Native-Americans

    On July 6th, 1831 Presbyterian ministers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Elizur Butler and Samuel Austin Worcester began their 110 mile march to a Georgia penitentiary from the neighboring Cherokee lands in chains. Arrested in New Echota by the Georgia Guard and detained indefinitely, Butler and Worcester were charged with the direct violation of a new Georgia state law...

  9. Be Prepared
    date April, 1831map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Education, Women

    In April of 1830 in Boston, Sarah Josepha Hale made a speech about boarding schools that would change how women were educated. She said that it was good to have women learn their domestic duties, but it was not enough. A woman must learn morals and have mental capacity in order to interact with other people, and mothers who teach their daughters, teach the opposite because they have not learned...

  10. Andrew Jacksons Ironic Relationship with the Indians
    date October 25, 1814 to November 14, 1814map Florida, Floridatags Native-Americans, War

    On October 25, 1814, General Andrew Jackson and over 4,000 troops, including 750 Choctaw and Chickasaw allies set out for Pensacola. Finally reaching the fort on November 6, 1814, Jackson sent a surrender demand to Spanish Governor Gonzalez Manrique, but British marines opened fire on Jackson's army. Jackson next called for an immediate British evacuation of Pensacola. The Spanish governor refused...

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