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American Portraits: John Ross
“Our removal to the country west of the Mississippi will be injurious either in its immediate or remote consequences.”
Chief John Ross, 1833.
McKenney and Hall, John Ross, c. 1840.
Color lithograph.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
McKenney and Hall, John Ross, c. 1840.
Color lithograph.
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The Age of Jackson: The 1830s
Timeline: The Age of Jackson: The 1830s
Representing Native Americans
The Market Revolution
Slavery and the American Economy
5. Evangelical Reform
6. Women in the Early Republic
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1. Timeline: Age of Jackson: The 1830s
1829 Mexico abolishes slavery.
Indian Removal Act.
Beginning of Nullification Crisis in South Carolina.
1832 Beginning of Jackson’s “war” against the Second Bank of the United States.
Convention in South Carolina nullifies protective tariff.
Jackson reelected president.
Congress lowers tariffs but authorizes Force Bill, allowing Jackson to enforce federal law in South.
1836 American settlers in Texas declare independence from Mexico.
Martin Van Buren elected president.
1837 Financial panic brought on by “specie circular.”
1838 John Quincy Adams leads effort to defeat annexation of Texas.
1839 Major depression begins.
2. Representing Native Americans
Recreation of George Catlin’s Indian Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, 2005.
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Recreation of George Catlin’s Indian Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, 2005.
“Their rights invaded, their morals corrupted, their lands wrestled from them, their customs changed, and therefore lost to the world . . . they may . . . live again upon canvass, and stand forth for centuries yet to come, the living monuments of a noble race.”
George Catlin
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George Catlin, The
Last Race, Part of
Okipa Ceremony
(Mandan), 1832.
Oil on canvas.
Smithsonian Museum
of American Art
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George Catlin, Mah-To-Toh-Pa (Four Bears), 1832.
Oil on canvas. Smithsonian
Museum of American Art.
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Karl Bodmer, Chan-Cha-Uia-Tein, Teton Sioux Woman, 1833-34.
Oil on canvas. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
George Catlin, Mah-To-Toh-Pa (Four Bears), 1832.
Oil on canvas. Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
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Karl Bodmer, Chan-Cha-Uia-Tein, Teton Sioux Woman, 1833-34.
Oil on canvas. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
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Charles Bird King, Keokuk, Sac (Watchful Fox), 1827.
Oil on panel. National Museum of Denmark.
Thomas Easterly, Keokuk, or the Watchful Fox, 1847.
Daguerreotype. Missouri Historical Society.
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3. The Market Revolution
George Caleb Bingham, The Concealed Enemy, 1845.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1847.
Oil on canvas.
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George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, 1857.
Oil on canvas.
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Robert S. Duncanson, View of Cincinnati, Ohio, from Covington, Kentucky, 1858 (based on 1848 engraving).
Oil on canvas. Cincinnati Historical Society
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George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1855.
Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art.
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William Sidney Mount, Bargaining for a Horse, 1835.
Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society.
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Democratic cartoon, Downfall of the Mother Bank, 1832.
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Jackson (Dem.) 219 Floyd 11
Clay (Whig) 49 Wirt 7
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4. Slavery and the American Economy
Slave states, 1820-1860
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Sugaring caldrons, Whitney Plantation, Louisiana, 2017.
D.W. Moody, New Orleans from the Lower Cotton Press, 1852 (detail).
Lithograph. Historic New Orleans Collection.
William Henry Brooke, Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans, 1842.
Engraving with watercolor from The Slave States of America, Vol. 1 (London: Fisher and Son, 1842.
Ship’s manifest including 83 enslaved African Americans being transported from Alexandria, Virginia, to New Orleans, 1833.
Smithsonian Institution.
Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg, 1863. Photograph by Mathew Brady.
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“With us, the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black; and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals . . . And hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them.”
John C. Calhoun (D-SC)
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“Was there any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?”
John Stuart Mill
5. Evangelical Reform
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Joshua Johnston, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805-10.
Oil on canvas.
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J. Maze Burbank, Camp Meeting, c. 1839.
Oil on canvas.
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“Why must the student be solitary and silent? That he may become acquainted with his thoughts. . .
“Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Literary Ethics,” 1835.
David Scott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1848.
Oil on canvas.
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John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 1809-14.
Oil on canvas.
6. Women in the Early Republic
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Raphaelle Peale, Venus Rising from the Sea, A Deception, c. 1822.
Oil on canvas. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
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Lily Martin Spencer, Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ‘Lasses, 1856.
Oil on canvas.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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