1. Growth of the young nation

2. 8.38 Describe daily life-including traditions in art, music, and literature- of early national America by examining excerpts from the stories of Washington irving and james fenimore cooper

3. Early Republic

4. American Writers
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper

5. Washington Irving
Wrote about American history; Combined European influences with American settings and character
Used satire to warn that Americans should learn from the past and be cautious about the future
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle were works by Irving.

6. James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote American historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days.
Wrote The Last of the Mohicans and the Deerslayer series.

7. Art in the 1840s The style of art began to change in the 1840s.
Artists tried to combine images of the American landscape and scenes of people’s daily lives.
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, by George Caleb Bingham, is an important example of this style.

10. New ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9VvaKNW28&safe=active
Religious revivalism swept the United States in the early and mid-1800s.
Spirituals—songs based on text from the Bible—became popular in both African American and white folk-music traditions.
Popular folk music reflected the unique views of the growing nation and rising nationalism.

11. Architecture and Education
American architects modeled buildings after the style of ancient Greece and Rome.
Admired classical civilizations for their democratic and republican ideals.
Early American political leaders believed an educated populace was needed for democracy.
The idea of state-funded public schools gained support.
Massachusetts created state board of education in 1837, and other states followed.

14. Rip Van Winkle by: Washington Irving

15. Last of the Mohicans by: James F. Cooper