El arte y la arquitectura de los Еstados Unidos en el año 1800

In 1800, everyday life had changed little since the year 1700. By 1900, the Industrial Revolution had transformed the United States economy and the world.

In 1850 the population was 23,000,000 - 3.2 million were black slaves

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The American Academy of the Fine Arts in New York was the first major American art academy, established in 1802.

Charles Willson Peale (the patriarch of a large family of artists) founded the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1805.

Early 19th century American furniture included Sheraton and Directoire styles, classical yet simple. The broad name for American furniture of these styles was Federal. This furniture is extremely valuable today.

During the 1850s American artists were acquiring reputations in Europe.

By 1890, American portraiture, realism, historical painting and landscapes continued as important art genres.Most interesting today are the American Impressionist artists including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Childe Hassam. Art Nouveau soared into the artworld during this decade.

EDUCATION

In this first decade of the new century, American schools changed little from the schools in the late eighteenth century. Education was still considered mainly a family or local responsibility, not an obligation of the state.

The 1850's saw more states providing free public education as the Indiana (1852), Ohio (1854) , Illinois (1855), and Minnesota (1858) legislatures passed the necessary laws.

Massachusetts enacted the "Compulsory Attendance Act of 1852" which required that all children between the ages of eight and fourteen attend school at least three months of each year. Three years later, in 1855, Massachusetts abolished segregation in its schools, the first state in the Union to do so. Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in the United States in 1856 at Watertown, Wisconsin.

In 1890, Congress passed the Second Morrill Act which specified that states that maintained separate colleges for different races had to propose a just and equitable division of the funds to be received under the act.

PASTIMES - FADS, FOOD, FASHION AND SPORTS

In the first decade of the 19th century, Americans dressed, prepared their food and furnished their homes much like they had in the late 18th century. Women usually wore long flowing skirts, a blouse with a low neckline and a separate half-blouse with a modest high neckline (worn under the low neckline blouse). Hats and shawls were stylish accessories that were necessary in cold weather. Shoes were not made for comfort--a shoe could fit either foot!. Women prepared food for their

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