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Episodes from "The United States: A New Nation, 1776-1836," Wheaton College (Fall 2007): 1 through 10 of 19

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  1. 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...

  2. 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....

  3. Christian Women and Fashion
    date April, 1825map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    In an 1825 essay entitled "The Female Character," a Dr. Springs wrote "a Christian woman ought to be distinguishable by her simplicity." The desire for simplicity was a common trend seen in many Christian communities in the early to mid 1800's. For many, clothing choice reflected how a woman was viewed by her society. In early American Christian towns men wanted their wives and daughters to be seen...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Missionaries and the Choctaws
    date 1831map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans

    Mr. Cushman and his fellow missionaries broke ground in the "unbroken wilderness" of Choctaw Nation on October 15, 1827 and on July 31, 1831 he published a letter about his experiences in The Missionary Herald titled, Effects of the Gospel on the People. Upon his arrival in 1827, Cushman found the members of the Choctaw tribe to be entirely heathen and uncivilized in both appearance and practice. He...

  7. Cholera
    date 1831map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Health/Death

    A Cholera epidemic struck the citizens of the United States of America in 1831. Doctors all over the Nation treated its victims without much success. Many doctors published their feelings and findings in medical journals. A Doctor Smith from Boston wrote about his voyage to Russia that year to compare their epidemic to the one in America. Dr. Smith was horrified to see so many helpless poor Russian...

  8. Nat Turner's Rebellion
    date February 12, 1831 to November, 1831map SOUTHAMPTON, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Nat Turner was an American slave who lived in Southampton County Virginia, from 1800 to 1831. Nat grew up very religious, and had the ability to read and write. Along with his education, his spirituality gave him a distinct view of the injustices of slavery taking place around him. Turner believed that he could lead a successful revolt, and in February of 1831 he executed his plan. Turner's original...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

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