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Date Posted: 20:13:57 09/28/02 Sat
Author: *MaLlOrY*
Subject: Ch. 7-Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation

Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation
A.Establishment of a national culture
1.Jedidah Morse – Massachusetts geographer
a.Author of Geography Made Easy
2.Noah Webster – Connecticut schoolmaster & lawyer
a.thought students should be educated as patriots, their minds filled with nationalism
b.wrote American Spelling Book
-insisted on simplified spelling (honor not honour)
c.wrote a school dictionary which eventually became An American Dictionary of English Language
-established national standard of words and usage
3.Charles Brockden Brown – Philadelphian
a.one of the most ambitious writers
b.fascinated with horror and deviant behavior
4. Washington Irving – New Yorker
a. became popular for his satirical stories of early American life & his fables of society in the New World
b. well known works include characters Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle
5. Mercy Otis Warren – playwrite
a. wrote three-volume History of the Revolution
6. Mason Weems – Anglican clergyman
a. wrote Life of Washington

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