Unit 5
Masculine Heroes
American Expansion, 1820-1900
Authors and Works 204
Overview Questions 206
Learning Objectives 207
Overview 207
Video Overview 208
Discussion Questions for the Video 210
Timeline 210
Author/Text Review 212
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 212
Questions 513
Web Archive 514
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 215
Questions 216
Web Archive 216
Cherokee Memorials 317
Questions 218
Web Archive 218
Corridos 219
Web Archive 220
Questions 221
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801-1864) 222
Questions 222
Web Archive 222
Louise Amelia Smith Clappe (1819-1906) 223
Questions 224
Web Archive 224
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 224
Web Archive 225
Questions 226
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (1827-1867) 227
Web Archive 227
Questions 228
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (c. 1832-1895) 228
Web Archive 229
Questions 230
Nat Love (1854-1921) 230
Questions 231
Web Archive 231
Core Contexts 232
America Unbridled: The Iron Horse and Manifest Destiny 233
Web Archive 234
Questions 235
Competing Claims: The California Gold Rush 236
Questions 238
Web Archive 238
Paradise of Bachelors: The Social World of Men in Nineteenth-Century America 239
Questions 241
Web Archive 241
Extended Contexts 242
Star-Spangled Moccasins: The American Flag in Native American Culture 243
Questions 244
Web Archive 244
Picturing America: The Hudson River School Painters 244
Questions 245
Web Archive 246
Assignments 247
Personal and Creative Responses 247
Problem-Based Learning Projects 247
Glossary 248
Selected Bibliography 250
Further Resources 250