Apush Chapter 7 Summary
Chapter 7 pgs.182-194
The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
Patterns of Education
• Republican vision included enlightened citizenry, wanted nationwide system of free public schools to create educated electorate required by republic
• By 1815 no state had a comprehensive public school system, schooling primary by private institutions open only to those who could pay o Most were aristocratic in outlook, trained students to become elite. Few schools for poor
• Idea of “republican mother” to train new generation could not be ignorant, late 18thcentury women began to have limited education to make them better wives and mothers- no professional training
• Attempts to educate “noble savages” in white culture and reform tribes, African Americans …show more content…
Economic development offered opportunity to own and work for businesses, land no longer=wealth
• Middle class life most influential cultural form of urban America, good neighborhoods, women stayed in home to care for children, cast-iron stoves used to cook, diets improved with new access to meats, grains, dairy
The Changing Family
• Movement of families from farms to cities where jobs, not land, most important. Patriarchal system of inherited farm land disappeared
• Work moved out of home and into shop, mill, and factory. Family as principal economic unit gave way to individual wage earners. Even farms became commercialized because larger lands required more labor than just family
• Changing family role led to decline in birth rate by mid-19th century. Deliberate effort to limit family size result of future planning. Secular, rational o Women and the “Cult of Domesticity”
• Growing distinction between workplace and home led to distinction in societal roles of men and women. Women had long been denied legal and political rights, little access to business, less access to education at high
The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
Patterns of Education
• Republican vision included enlightened citizenry, wanted nationwide system of free public schools to create educated electorate required by republic
• By 1815 no state had a comprehensive public school system, schooling primary by private institutions open only to those who could pay o Most were aristocratic in outlook, trained students to become elite. Few schools for poor
• Idea of “republican mother” to train new generation could not be ignorant, late 18thcentury women began to have limited education to make them better wives and mothers- no professional training
• Attempts to educate “noble savages” in white culture and reform tribes, African Americans …show more content…
Economic development offered opportunity to own and work for businesses, land no longer=wealth
• Middle class life most influential cultural form of urban America, good neighborhoods, women stayed in home to care for children, cast-iron stoves used to cook, diets improved with new access to meats, grains, dairy
The Changing Family
• Movement of families from farms to cities where jobs, not land, most important. Patriarchal system of inherited farm land disappeared
• Work moved out of home and into shop, mill, and factory. Family as principal economic unit gave way to individual wage earners. Even farms became commercialized because larger lands required more labor than just family
• Changing family role led to decline in birth rate by mid-19th century. Deliberate effort to limit family size result of future planning. Secular, rational o Women and the “Cult of Domesticity”
• Growing distinction between workplace and home led to distinction in societal roles of men and women. Women had long been denied legal and political rights, little access to business, less access to education at high