Log Cabin Campaign
- Whig William Henry Harrison vs Democrat Martin van Buren
- Van Buren was weakened by the Panic of 1837
- Log Cabin Campaign
- Campaign Slogans: Tippecanoe and Tyler too
- Branding: Harrison is a common man
- Negative Campaigning: Van Ruin
- Rallies
- Songs
- Women: Targetted women who they thought would influence thie rhusbands
- Harrison won by a landslide and Whigs took control of Congress
- Harrison died of pneumonia 32 days later and John Tyler became president.
Social and Cultural Change, 1830s-1850s
Human impulse to reform society and make it better, arises from:
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Disruptions of industrial revolution
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Some people left with idea that life can be made better
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Empowerment from Jacksonian ideals
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Second Great Awakening
- Rejected predestination and celebrated human free will
- If individuals reform, so will society
- Sin is a choice and hurts all
- Salvation can come from self improvement and the improvement of society
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Romanticism
- Expression of feeling in art and rise of individuality
- Reaction to the greyness of the industrial revolution
- Man vs nature and man vs himself, exploration of conflict
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**Transcendentalism
- Sought deeper insight into the mysteries of existence
- Celebrated individualism and nature
- Speak your truth, know thyself
- Questioning of social norms
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Nativism
- Discrimination against immigration
- Especially Irish people who immigrated in response to the Potato Famine
- A real american is white, anglosaxon, protestant (WASP)
- Irish are Catholic
- Idea that catholics cannot be good Americans because of the christian power structure
- Allegiance to pope over democracy
- Led to rise of American “Know Nothing” Party
- Sought to limit immigration and foreign influence