The American Republic

Chapter 11: Changing American Life

Transportation
Great (Philadelphia) Wagon RoadNC Museum of History
Cumberland Gap
National Park Service
Cumberland Gap, TN
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. Abbott (pub. 1872)
National Road
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
History of the Steamboat
Robert FultonWebsite provided by PBS that explains his accomplishments,
including links to related topics
The Erie CanalSite of the Erie Canal organization; includes numerous links to
maps, diagrams, photos, etc.
Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836
Ohio and Erie Canal
Peter Coopers Tom Thumb, 1830
Best Friend of CharlestonPage from the site of the National Railway Historical
Society; includes numerous photos, links, and other information about early
railroading

Communication and Industry

Pony Express
Biography of Samuel F. B. Morse
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Isaac Singer

Agriculture
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
 Eli Whitney

Sea Trade
Matthew Perry
U.S. Navy Museum
military history
Britannica
Treaty of Kanagawa (March 31, 1854)
History of the Cutty SarkDescribes the time of service of a preserved clipper
ship

Reform Movements

Unitarianism and Transcendentalism

William Ellery Channing
Britannica
W. E. ChanningUnitarian Christianity: A sermon delivered at the Ordination of
Rev. Jared Sparks in Baltimore, Maryland on May 5, 1819
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Britannica
writings
Henry David Thoreau
works
The Thoreau Society
Britannica
Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854)title page / text

The Great Awakening

Charles G. Finney
Britannica
Systematic Theology, 1851 edition
Finneys unorthodox teachings
Asahel Nettleton
Enrichment Journal
Richard Furman

The College Revivals and Education

 Timothy Dwight (Congregationalist; Yale)
A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Theological Institution in
Andover (1808)
A Discourse on Some Events of the Last Century (Jan. 7, 1801)
The Genuineness and Authenticity of the New Testament (1838)
Charles Hodge (Presbyterian; Princeton)
Britannica
Archibald Alexander Hodge (Presbyterian; Princeton)
Joseph Addison Alexander (Presbyterian; Princeton)
Francis Wayland (Baptist; Brown)
Brown
James Henley Thornwell (Presbyterian; Columbia)
James Petigru Boyce (Baptist; Southern Baptist)
Horace Mann
1848 Annual Report

Abolition and the Question of Slavery (note: see also chapter 14 for more web
links concerning abolition at the time of the Secessionist War)
Richard FurmanExposition of the Views of the Baptists, Relative to the
Coloured Population in the United States, In a Communication to the Governor of
South-Carolina (May 28, 1823, pub. Charleston, 1838)
John C. CalhounSlavery a Positive Good (Feb. 6, 1837)
Theodore ParkerTo a Southern Slaveholder (Feb. 2, 1848)

Women's rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To the Women of the Republic (1864)
Solitude of Self (1892)
Declaration of Sentiments
Dorothea Dix