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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Culture of the Common Man
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Culture of the Common Man
Text 1. Andrew Jackson
Text 2. Mark Twain
Text 3. Thomas W. Dorr
Text 4. Mechanics/Workers
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Text 5. Richard Allen and David Walker
Text 6. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Text 7. James Fenimore Cooper
Text 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text 9. John C. Calhoun
Text 10. Walt Whitman


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4.  The Boston Mechanics' and Laborers' Mutual Benefit Association on the formation of its cooperative society, 1845

The Workingman's Committee of Philadelphia on the state of public instruction in Pennsylvania, 1830


carpenter
Carpenter, ca. 1850
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Mechanics:
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/
cman/text4/bosmechanics.pdf


Workers:
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/
cman/text4/workingmans.pdf


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