Era of Good Feelings

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

The Star-Spangled Banner

• The lyrics you just analyzed were written by Francis Scott Key after the

American victory at Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.

• His lyrics were printed in newspapers around the country and were soon set

to music. The song eventually became the nation’s national anthem in 1931.

A Growing Sense of Nationhood

• A vising Frenchman wrote in 1831 “I do not know a country where the love

of money holds a larger place in the heart of man”

• Read handout independently and complete questions on your worksheet.

American Art

• Folk Art – created by ordinary people, hunting decoys,

quilts, murals, signs. Simple, direct, and usually very

colorful

• Portraits – artists tried to capture personalities and

emotions. Best known artist was Gilbert Stuart

American Art

• Hudson River School – painters focused on nature rather than people, often choosing to paint broad, scenic vistas

• John James Audubon – accurate, realistic studies of bird species he observed in the fields and woods

• George Catlin – crisscrossed the West, drawing the native people and capturing in rich colors their villages, hunts, and rituals.

Literature

• Families hosted gatherings to

read and discuss books

Literature

• Washington Irving – drew on German folklore for his colorful tales of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” but he set them in the wilds of upstate New York.

• James Fenimore Cooper – wrote about the adventures of settlers in the wilderness in books like The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans His descriptions of frontier life and American Indians attracted worldwide interest.

Literature

• Davy Crockett – Americans saw Crockett as the fictional frontier hero come to life. His autobiography, which was full of his plain backwoods speech and rough humor, helped give popular literature a new, distinctly American accent.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – wrote America's first epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha, based on stories of American Indians. Other poems, like his famous “Paul Revere's Ride,” touched on patriotic themes.

Music• Classical Orchestra music from Europe

• Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn

• Popular at dances called “cotillion”

• Patriotic anthems – included songs like “America”

• Spirituals – combination of hymns with African musical styles using violin,

drum and banjo (an African American invention)

• Minstrel songs – white composers mimicking African American music

• “Camptown Races”, and “Oh! Susanna”

• Usually performed in blackface

Time to Dance!

If you don’t want to dance you can do an alternative written

assignment.