The Jackson Era

1. Background:
a) the development of industries
b) the beginnings of mass goods production
c) changes in lifestyle

2. The emergence of the middle class

3. The new looks of the city
4. Industrial inventions: the press, a single-wire telegraph, a revolver, vulcanization process
5. Lifestyle: clothes, food, health
6. Architecture:
a) the Greek Revival style,
b) romantic influences:
 landscape gardening,
 the Gothic Revival style
7. Art
a) the Hudson River School and its offshoot - luminism
b) panorama
c) Indians in George Catlin’s art
d) historical paintings: Washington Crossing the Deleware, 1851.
e) nudity in art
f) lithography and photography
g) sculpture and cast sculptures