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A. The Nation’s New Commonwealth State & national politics in the Antebellum Era Important People/Groups: Robert J. Breckinridge, William Clark, Cassius M. Clay, Henry Clay, Charlotte Dupuy, Josiah Henson, Andrew Jackson, Isaac Shelby, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delia Ann Webster, York; Cherokee, Chickasaw Important Organizations: American Colonization Society, Berea College, Board of Education, Democrats, Know–Nothings, War Hawks, Whigs Important Events: Louisiana Purchase (1803), River Raisin Massacre, Battle of Thames (1813), Treaty of Ghent (1814), Jackson Purchase (1818), Munsell Line (1819), "Old Court–New Court" controversy, Missouri Compromise (1820), Trail of Tears, Mexican–American War (1846–48), 1850 Constitution, Compromise of 1850, Bloody Monday (1855) Important Concepts: 36°30’, abolition vs. colonization vs. emancipation, American System, compromise, fugitive slave laws, levy, manumission, naturalization, omnibus bill, replevin bill, sectionalism, slave code, slave vs. free state, Underground Railroad B. Economic Infancy Development of economic strengths & centers in Kentucky Focus on transportation development, currency vs. barter, agriculture vs. early manufacturing, & slave trade Important Places/Events: Bowling Green, Falls of Ohio, Lexington, Louisville, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Ohio River; Panic of 1819, Louisville and Portland Canal (1830), Nonimportation Act (1833), L&N Railroad Important Concepts/Products: barge, cash vs. staple crop, country store, flatboat, "Forty Thieves," keelboat, locks & dams, mill, railroad, steamboat, subsistence agriculture, taxation, toll road/turnpike; hemp, livestock, tobacco C. Antebellum Kentucky Character Effect of urbanization, technological, and transportation progress on culture & life in pre-Civil War KY; cultural centers of Lexington & Louisville Religion: camp-meeting; Cane Ridge Revival, Great Revival, Shakers Education: influence of church/religion; medical schools, private academies; Choctaw Indian Academy, Transylvania University Medicine: Jane Todd Crawford, Ephraim McDowell; folk remedies; Cholera epidemics (1832-35; 1848-54) The Press: early libraries, KY Historical Society (1836), KY history, newspaper boom, specialized newspapers; Courier-Journal antecedents, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Arts & Music: architecture, cultural societies, early photography, portraiture, silversmithing; J.J. Audubon Asa Blanchard, Matthew Harris Jouett; "My Old Kentucky Home" (1853) Other Entertainment: agricultural exhibitions, horse racing, first racetracks stagecoaches, steamboats, traveling shows; Mammoth Cave, Springs |