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Winning political independence from Europe, they aspired to a form of cultural independence. In the process, they dreamed of American literary and artistic life that would rival the greatest achievements in Europe. Americans believed that their “happy land” was destined to become the “seat of empire” and the “final stage” of civilization, with “glorious works of high invention and of wond'rous art.” The means of expression that this “independence” found was among other places in early American schoolbooks. The author of Geography Made Easy; Jedidiah Morse stated the country must have its own textbooks to prevent aristocratic ideas of England infecting the people. Noah Webster, a schoolmaster and lawyer argued similarly that American students should be educated as patriots, and their minds filled with nationalistic, American
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The Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians were so successful on the frontier because Methodists which was founded by John Wesley, spread to America in the 1770’s and became a formal denomination in 1784 under the leadership of Francis Asbury. Authoritarian and hierarchical in structure, the Methodists Church sent itinerant preachers throughout the nation to win recruits; it soon became the fastest growing denomination in America. Almost as successful were the Baptists, who were relatively new to America; they found a fervent following in the South. The Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists were mushrooming. * The “message” and the impact of the Second Great Awakening was that individuals must embrace a fervent, active piety, and must reject the skeptical rationalism that threatened traditional beliefs. Even revivalism did not restore the religious ideas of the past. Few of the revivalists’ denominations any longer accepted the ideas …show more content…
The role that Eli Whitney played in America’s industrial revolution was his inventions, and the thought that he revolutionized both cotton production and weapons manufacturing. The growth of the textile industry in England created enormous demand for cotton, a demand that planters in the South were finding impossible to meet. There greatest obstacle was separating the seeds from cotton fiber, which was a difficult and time consuming process that was essential before cotton was sold. Long-staple or Sea Island cotton was easy to separate but only grew successfully along the Atlantic coasts or along the off-coast shore of Georgia and South Carolina. With these problems in mind, Whitney created a machine that performed the arduous tasks quickly and efficiently; the cotton gin was an engine that changed life in the South. In the North, the large supply of domestically produced fiber was a strong incentive to entrepreneurs in New England and elsewhere to develop an American textile industry. Learning to turn cotton into yarn and thread the North could become industrially prosperous instead, but the development of the textile industry divided the nation’s two most populous regions, with one become industrial and the other more agricultural. Ultimately resulting in the Civil
The Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians were so successful on the frontier because Methodists which was founded by John Wesley, spread to America in the 1770’s and became a formal denomination in 1784 under the leadership of Francis Asbury. Authoritarian and hierarchical in structure, the Methodists Church sent itinerant preachers throughout the nation to win recruits; it soon became the fastest growing denomination in America. Almost as successful were the Baptists, who were relatively new to America; they found a fervent following in the South. The Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists were mushrooming. * The “message” and the impact of the Second Great Awakening was that individuals must embrace a fervent, active piety, and must reject the skeptical rationalism that threatened traditional beliefs. Even revivalism did not restore the religious ideas of the past. Few of the revivalists’ denominations any longer accepted the ideas …show more content…
The role that Eli Whitney played in America’s industrial revolution was his inventions, and the thought that he revolutionized both cotton production and weapons manufacturing. The growth of the textile industry in England created enormous demand for cotton, a demand that planters in the South were finding impossible to meet. There greatest obstacle was separating the seeds from cotton fiber, which was a difficult and time consuming process that was essential before cotton was sold. Long-staple or Sea Island cotton was easy to separate but only grew successfully along the Atlantic coasts or along the off-coast shore of Georgia and South Carolina. With these problems in mind, Whitney created a machine that performed the arduous tasks quickly and efficiently; the cotton gin was an engine that changed life in the South. In the North, the large supply of domestically produced fiber was a strong incentive to entrepreneurs in New England and elsewhere to develop an American textile industry. Learning to turn cotton into yarn and thread the North could become industrially prosperous instead, but the development of the textile industry divided the nation’s two most populous regions, with one become industrial and the other more agricultural. Ultimately resulting in the Civil