American Culture

1. American Culture Ch. 9 section 4

2. Literature • James Fenimore Cooper • The Last of the Mohican’s • http://youtu.be/aMZtQhhS14w

3. 1827 John Audubon begins publishing The Birds of Americawhich is highly admired in England Carolina Parakeet which is now extinct

4. Audubon’s Birds

5. Hudson River School • Painters of the Hudson River School, Prove American landscapes are worthy of art Thomas Cole: The Oxbow 1836

6. George Catlin travels widely to paint images of Native American ways of life before they are lost.

7. American Arts • 1828 Noah Webster published the first dictionary of American not British English.

8. Music, and Education • Music celebrated American events such as the Erie Canal and the Battle of New Orleans • http://youtu.be/-BSa4Uw4tuk • American’s embraced educational progress • Democracy could only succeed in a country of educated and enlightened people • Who should pay for it? • Massachusetts was the first state to create public education

9. Architecture • Jefferson had called for American’s to model their architecture after Greece and Rome because they contained some of the same democratic and republican ideals as the new nation. U.S. Supreme Court