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American Portraits: James Fenimore Cooper
“Few men exhibit . . . greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.”
James Fenimore Cooper, from “Introduction,” The Last of the Mohicans, 1826.
John Wesley Jarvis, James Fenimore Cooper, 1822.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, Scene from The Last of the Mohicans: Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, 1827.
Oil on canvas.
HIST 180 Survey of American History
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
John Wesley Jarvis, James Fenimore Cooper, 1822.
Oil on canvas.
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America in the 1820s
Timeline: America in the 1820s
Territorial Expansion and the Missouri Compromise
3. Andrew Jackson and the Growth of Political Democracy
Whigs and Democrats
Nature and Politics: Thomas Cole
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- Timeline: America in the 1820s
1816 James Monroe elected president. Federalist Party on the wane.
1818 General Andrew Jackson invades Florida to end Seminole War.
Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
Panic of 1819.
1820 Missouri Compromise; Maine (free) admitted to Union.
James Monroe reelected president.
1821 Missouri (slave) admitted to Union.
1822 Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy exposed in South Carolina.
John Quincy Adams elected president, defeating Andrew Jackson amid charges of a “corrupt bargain.”
1825 Erie Canal completed.
1828 Congress passes “Tariff of Abominations.”
New Democratic Party wins presidency with Andrew Jackson’s victory.
1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad begins operation.
2. Expansion and the Missouri Compromise
“I had for a long time ceased to read the newspapers or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. but this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.”
- Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820.
Thomas Sully, Thomas Jefferson, 1821.
Oil on canvas.
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Three Processes from Revolution
1. territorial expansion
2. political democratization
3. spread of market relations
Later:
4. role of women
5. growth of slavery
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Lakota Sioux buffalo robe, nineteenth century
“The life my people want is a life of freedom.”
Sitting Bull
Manifest Destiny
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3. Andrew Jackson and the Growth of
Political Democracy
Samuel F. B. Morse, James Monroe, 1819.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Sully, Andrew Jackson, 1824.
Oil on canvas.
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Election of 1828
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The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, 1829.
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Anonymous, King Andrew the First, c. 1830.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, Self-portrait, 1854-55.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, Stump Speaking, 1854-55.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, The County Election, 1854-55.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, The Verdict of the People, 1854-55.
Oil on canvas.
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4. Whigs and Democrats
W.H. Bartlett, The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, 1839.
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Set-To Between Old Hickory and Bully Nick.
Cartoon
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4. Nature and Politics: Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole, Self-Portrait, 1836.
Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society.
John Trumbull, Niagara Falls from an Upper Bank on the British Side, c. 1808.
Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
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Thomas Cole, Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, Scene from The Last of the Mohicans: Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, 1827.
Oil on canvas.
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, 1833-36.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Savage State, 1833.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Pastoral or Arcadian State, 1834.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Consummation, 1835-36.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction, 1835-36.
Oil on canvas.
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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation, 1836.
Oil on canvas.
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