Chapter 7 Section 1 Flashcards
Webster worked diligently to establish the country’s
National character
Webster promoted
Education, arts, virtuous behavior
What was Webster’s goal
Improve the lives of all Americans
As a result of the cultural advancement
The nation began to focus on the importance of learning
Mercy Otis Warren
- Believing she has a duty to participate in the revolution
- Hosted political meetings
- wrote several patriotic plays encouraging the cause of independence
- wrote a book titled history of the American Revolution
- actively encouraged other women to take up scholarly interests
- cautioned them to balance their intellectual pursuits with responsibilities in the home
Benjamin Rush
- Doctor, scientist, revolutionary
- signed the Declaration of Independence
- Represented PA in the continental congress
- Published numerous books on chemistry and medicine
- his medical lectures in philly attracted large audiences and began in 1790
Benjamin Banneker
- Born in Maryland to free parents of African American and white ancestry
- writer, inventor, mathematician, astronomer
- self educated
- mapped the nations capital (Washington DC)
- published the first almanac detailing the motions of the moon, sun, planets, and stars
- presented the almanac and a letter calling for better treatment of enslaved Africans to Thomas Jefferson
Charles Wilson Peale
- artist more than 1,000 portraits
- solider in the revolution
- representative in the PA legislator
- scientists, inventor
- father of 17
- founded the first major museum in the new nation
- his museum as it was called recognized the value of education girls
- academies added female departments to help girls become republican women
Americans in the early 1800s believed
That women should play only a supporting role in the new nation
The nation faced the problem of
A mushrooming population
___ million people lived in the original 13 states in ____
2.7
1780
By ____ the population had grown to an estimated __ million people in 24 states
1830
12
From 1780 to 1830 the population _______ about every 20 years
Doubled
The population grew..
More than twice as fast as that of any other nation
Played only a minor role in America’s growth
Immigration
Fewer _______ came to the US after a law banning the import of slaves took effect in 1808
Africans
Slave trader continued to smuggle ______ in the US
Africans
By the early 1800s slave trade primarily involved
Enslaved people sold within the US
__ percent of the American pop growth cane from an astonishing increase in the number of children born to each family
90
In the first half of the 1800s women had nearly
5 children
The number of children declined to about 3 children by the
1870sq
Infant mortality rate
130 of every 1,000 children before their first birthday
Most of the American pop was
Young
Median age in 1820
17
