Apush Chapter 7 Outline
Chapter Seven: The Jeffersonian Era
I. The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
A. Patterns of Education
1. Central to the Republican vision was the concept of a virtuous and enlightened citizenry.
2. Republicans believed in the establishment of a nationwide system of public schools to create the educated electorate they believe a republic required.
3. A Massachusetts law of 1789 reaffirmed the colonial laws by which each town was obligated to support a school, but there was little enforcement.
4. Schooling became primarily of private institutions, most of which were open only to those who could afford to pay for them.
5. Many were frankly aristocratic in outlook, training their students to become members of the nation’s elite.
6. In 1789, Massachusetts required that its public schools serve females as well as males.
7. In 1784, Judith Sargent Murray published an essay defending women’s rights to education, a defense set in terms very different from those used by most men.
8. Colleges provided very limited educated focused mainly on classics and theology.
Subsection Summary: The patterns of education began with the Republicans’ belief of a public school system to the belief that any race or gender should be allowed an education.
B. Medicine and Science
1. The University of Pennsylvania created the first American medical school in the eighteenth century.
2. Municipal authorities had virtually no understanding of medical science and almost no idea of what to do in the face of the severe epidemics that so often swept their populations.
3. Individual patients often had more to fear from their doctors than from their illnesses and even the leading advocates often embraced useless and dangerous treatments.
4. The medical profession also used its newfound commitment to the “scientific” method to justify expanding its own role to kinds of care that had traditionally been outside its domain.
5. Education and professional training in medicine and other
I. The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
A. Patterns of Education
1. Central to the Republican vision was the concept of a virtuous and enlightened citizenry.
2. Republicans believed in the establishment of a nationwide system of public schools to create the educated electorate they believe a republic required.
3. A Massachusetts law of 1789 reaffirmed the colonial laws by which each town was obligated to support a school, but there was little enforcement.
4. Schooling became primarily of private institutions, most of which were open only to those who could afford to pay for them.
5. Many were frankly aristocratic in outlook, training their students to become members of the nation’s elite.
6. In 1789, Massachusetts required that its public schools serve females as well as males.
7. In 1784, Judith Sargent Murray published an essay defending women’s rights to education, a defense set in terms very different from those used by most men.
8. Colleges provided very limited educated focused mainly on classics and theology.
Subsection Summary: The patterns of education began with the Republicans’ belief of a public school system to the belief that any race or gender should be allowed an education.
B. Medicine and Science
1. The University of Pennsylvania created the first American medical school in the eighteenth century.
2. Municipal authorities had virtually no understanding of medical science and almost no idea of what to do in the face of the severe epidemics that so often swept their populations.
3. Individual patients often had more to fear from their doctors than from their illnesses and even the leading advocates often embraced useless and dangerous treatments.
4. The medical profession also used its newfound commitment to the “scientific” method to justify expanding its own role to kinds of care that had traditionally been outside its domain.
5. Education and professional training in medicine and other