Slide list for American Political and Social History I – Jackson to the Civil War

1)Election of 1828

2)President Andrew Jackson

3)Andrew Jackson inaugural

4)John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)

5)Chief Justice John Marshall

6)Indian Removal 1830 and the Trail of Tears

7)Henry Clay

8)Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)

9)Election of 1832

10)Andrew Jackson and the Bank War

11)Cartoon of King Andrew I

12)Aqueduct near Rome by Thomas Cole 1832

13)Luman Reed (1787-1836)

14)Five Points in New York City

15)Italian Scene, Composition by Thomas Cole 1833

16)The Course of Empire – Savage State by Thomas Cole 1836

17)The Course of Empire – Pastoral State by Thomas Cole 1836

18)The Course of Empire – Consummation by Thomas Cole 1836

19)The Course of Empire – Destruction by Thomas Cole 1836

20)The Course of Empire – Desolation by Thomas Cole 1836

21)Notes for The Course of Empire

22)Andrew Jackson daguerreotype

23)The Hermitage near Nashville, TN

24)Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777-1864)

25)Election of 1836

26)President Martin Van Buren

27)Panic of ‘37

28)Martin Van Buren as Macbeth

29)The Times – Panic of ‘37

30)Van Buren and Ruin

31)Harrison and Prosperity

32)Campaign items

33)Log Cabins and Hard Cider

34)Log Cabin Raisin’ and music

35)Election of 1840

36)President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)

37)President John Tyler (1790-1862)

38)The Departure by Thomas Cole 1837

39)The Return by Thomas Cole 1837

40)The Past by Thomas Cole 1838

41)The Present by Thomas Cole 1838

42)The Voyage of Life – Childhood by Thomas Cole 1840

43)The Voyage of Life – Youth by Thomas Cole 1840

44)The Voyage of Life – Manhood by Thomas Cole 1840

45)The Voyage of Life – Old Age by Thomas Cole 1840

46)Dream of Arcadia by Thomas Cole 1838

47)The Pic-Nic by Thomas Cole 1846

48)The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount 1847

49)Mount’s Cradle of Harmony Violin and Cole’s notes of inventions

50)The Architect’s Dream by Thomas Cole 1840

51)Preliminary design of the Ohio State House and postcard of the Ohio State House

52)Views of Trinity Church in New York City by Richard Upjohn 1846

53)Andrew Jackson Downing Cottage Residences and Carpenter Gothic

54)Election of 1844

55)President James Polk (1795-1849)

56)U.S. Naval Academy

57)Smithsonian Institution

58)Washington Monument

59)Cole’s designs for the Washington Monument

60)River in the Catskills by Thomas Cole 1843

61)Railroad map

62)Railroad people

63)Wagon train, locomotive, westward migration

64)Western Trails

65)Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way by Emanuel Leutze 1860

66)Samuel Morse and the telegraph 1832-1844

67)The Mexican-American War 1846-1848

68)Northwest Boundary Dispute

69)U.S. Territorial Acquisitions

70)Top, left to right: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Herman Melville (1819-1891); bottom, left to right: Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

71)New York newspaper The Sun, The Great Moon Hoax, Penny-press editors

72)Utopian communities before the Civil War

73)The Great Comet of 1843

74)Cross in the Wilderness by Thomas Cole 1845

75)Titan’s Goblet by Thomas Cole 1833

76)Thomas Cole daguerreotype

77)Kindred Spirits by Asher Durand 1849

78)To the Memory of Cole by Frederic Edwin Church 1848

79)The year 1848, clockwise from bottom left: Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience, Karl Marx (1818-1883) published The Communist Manifesto, Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill, CA, Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) with their Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Associated Press founded

80)The Gold Rush is underway in 1849

81)Gold Rush towns

82)Election of 1848

83)President Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)

84)Compromise of 1850

85)John C. Calhoun and Zachary Taylor

86)President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)

87)Stephen Douglas (1813-1861)

88)Map of the United States in 1850

89)Henry Clay, Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

90)Election of 1852

91)President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869)

92)Gadsden Purchase 1853-54

93)Ostend Manifesto 1854

94)Storm in the Mountains by Frederic Edwin Church 1847

95)Scene from Thanatopsis by Asher Durand 1850

96)Solitude by Sanford Gifford 1848

97)In the Berkshires by George Inness 1848

98)At Pasture by John Kensett 1844

99)Crow’s Nest by Worthington Whittredge 1848

100)Mounts Adam and Eve by Jasper Cropsey 1872

101)Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)

102)Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636 by Frederic Edwin Church 1846

103)Christian on the Borders of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Pilgrim’s Progress by Frederic Edwin Church 1847

104)Above the Clouds at Sunrise by Frederic Edwin Church 1849

105)Niagara Falls by Frederic Edwin Church 1857

106)German scientist/naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

107)Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church 1859

108)The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church 1861

109)Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives by Frederic Edwin Church 1870

110)Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church 1860

111)Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church 1862

112)Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church 1865

113)The Parthenon by Frederic Edwin Church 1871

114)Sunrise in Syria 1874, Syria by the Sea 1873 by Frederic Edwin Church

115)El Khasne, Petra 1874 by Frederic Edwin Church

116)Olana – Frederic Edwin Church’s home, built by Calvert Vaux in 1872

117)Olana detail

118)Olana interior

119)Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

120)The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak by Albert Bierstadt 1869

121)Scene in the Sierra Nevada by Albert Bierstadt 1861

122)Sunset in the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt 1869

123)Mt. Hood, Oregon by Albert Bierstadt 1865

124)The Last of the Buffalo by Albert Bierstadt 1888

125)Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay by Martin Johnson Heade 1868

126)Eaton’s Neck, Long Island by John Kensett 1872

127)Political Map of the U.S. 1854

128)Stephen Douglas

129)The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

130)The African slave trade map

131)Slave concentration maps 1820 and 1860

132)Constitution Hall in Lecompton, KS and map of Bleeding Kansas

133)Scenes of Bleeding Kansas, Free Soilers, and the Free State Hotel

134)Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry 1937-40

135)John Brown (1800-1859)

136)Scenes from Gone with the Wind

137)From top: Laura Plantation mansion, LA 1805, Slave cabin on Laura Plantation, Laura Plantation mansion interior

138)Nottoway Plantation, LA 1859

139)Oak Alley Plantation, MS 1839, Waverly Plantation, MS 1852

140)Slaves and slave quarters

141)Planters and slaves

142)Cotton plantation and fields

143)Fremont and Dayton, Republican candidates in 1856

144)William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) and his newspaper The Liberator; Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and his newspaper The North Star

145)Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852

146)Election of 1856

147)President James Buchanan (1791-1868)

148)James Buchanan inauguration

149)Charles Sumner (1811-1874) and Preston Brooks (1819-1857)

150)Sumner-Brooks Affair 5/22/1856

151)Dred Scott (1795-1858)

152)Chief Justice Roger Taney and the Dred Scott decision of 1857

153)The Panic of ‘57

154)Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and Stephen Douglas

155)John Brown

156)Harper’s Ferry, WV

157)John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry 1859

158)John Brown

159)Election of 1860

160)President Abraham Lincoln

161)Secession 1860-61

162)Attack on Fort Sumter 4/12/1861

163)Our Banner in the Sky by Frederic Edwin Church 1861