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Chapter 14:
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On September 11, 1850, P.T. Barnum, entrepreneur extra ordinaire, had a very successful business venture. He introduced Jenny Lind as the Swedish Nightingale. She sang to 6,000 people while he charged them $3 per person.
In 1853 New York City hosted the first World’s Fair in America. The idea was brought upon from the success of Britain’s “Great Expedition of all Industries.” The fair exhibited many inventions from around the world including the elevator, the sewing machine and exhibits from around the world. In the second season P.T. Barnum became involved and added more circus style acts.
World’s Fair:
* Most of the exhibits involved were mainly from Europe, Russia
and the U.S.
* It was the first World’s Fair with a picture gallery.
* Credited for issuing uniforms to NYC police officers.
Chapter 14:
The Gathering Storm
Many religions were throughout the United States. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, the U.S. purchased New Mexico and California. Those 2 states along with Texas made an abundant amount of Catholics. The Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodists tried to convert the Hispanic Catholics in New Mexico but failed.
In the spring of 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe started writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life among the Lowly. Stowe was an anti-slave activist who in the 1830’s helped runaway slaves who crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky. The novel was a hit and the first print sold out in two days and sold 300,000 copies in the U.S. and more than a million in Great Britain. The novel revealed the brutal realities of slavery harmed everyone involved. Many slaveholders called Stowe a “wretch in petticoats” as they were enraged by the book.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
* Frederick Douglas claimed that the book was like “a flash”
that lit “a million camp fires in front of the embattled host of
slavery.”
* One slave holder who was angry over the book mailed Stowe
a parcel that contained a severed ear of a disobedient slave.
In 1851, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" were published by the American publishing industry.
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