Culture

EXPLORE THIS THEME BROADLY AND IN DEPTH, FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT, PULL IN SPECIFIC EXAMPLES, AND CREATE A STUDY GUIDE FOR YOUR CLASSMATES:

**Culture** Diverse __individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy,__ __music, theater, and film__ throughout U.S. history. __Popular culture__ and the __dimensions__ __of cultural conflict__ within American society.

__Colonial__ Indian vs Europe Mestizos

At first, no American identity - more English.

Printing Press

Great Awakening - everyone

Enlightenment - Upper Class Romanticism

Religious and Agricultural Culture of America vs. Industrial/Business England

Zinger Trial

__ 1800s __ Mixing Pot Irish and German - 1830s

Second and Third Great Awakening

Writing Type Writer Carnegie - Libraries First Book of American History Waldo and Emerson

Hudson River School was first artistic definition of America. Landscape paintings

Cult of Domesticity with dynamic Middle Class form

Slavery divides country (Missouri Compromise, lynching, etc)

American Temperance Society

Railroad and National Road

1830s - Native American Removal Act

__Early 1900s__ Writings Octopus by Frank Norris (1901) - Southern Specific Journalism Rags to Riches Novels - Horatio Alger Termed Guilded Age - Twain The Jungle by Upton StClair (1906) - Meet Packing Industry Yellow Journalism

Big Boss Tweed

__1920s__ Film to "keep spirits up"

Prohibitions

Generational Gap - Secular (Alcohol, speak easies, Women, more sexually promiscuousness, etc) vs Conservative (Religious) Flappers - dancing Feminist Writing Divorce Rates Rise

KKK Blacks role in society - JAZZ

Harlem Renaissance

Consumerism - Henry Ford CARS

__WWII__ Propaganda WWI and WWII Rosetta the Riveter - Feminism TV - presidential election Consumerism

__ Post WWII __ Realism, Atomic Bomb

__1950s__ Rock and Roll - Elvis

__ 1970s __ Fourth Great Awakening