Yankee cultural history

The "Yankee" in history refers to the descendants of local British immigrants in New England, especially those who migrated in the17th century. Traditionally, they lived in the countryside (instead of owning their own farms) and participated in local self-government affairs through township committees to encourage each other's ethics and morality. The Americans have established international trade routes in Boston, Salem, Providence, New London and other seaports in New England, even as far as China 1800. Its profits were heavily reinvested in textile and machine tool enterprises, making New England the industrial center of the United States during the19th century industrial revolution.

Yankee founded the first public high school and university in America for children, and formed the advanced manpower needed by developing cities. The characteristics of Yankee culture include attaching importance to education and respecting diverse social values, emphasizing intelligence over skills, and supporting the overall structure of chaos and order.

Yankee, who values education above all else, established Harvard College (now Harvard University) in 1636, Boston Latin School in 1635, and Yale College (now Yale University) in170/0/year, and established laws, medicine, theology, engineering and other related disciplines very early. Yankee is a pioneer in establishing public free schools. Under the leadership of Horace Mann, he designed a public school and education curriculum system, which later developed into a national model, and all states followed suit. /kloc-In the late 9th century, Yankee established the earliest famous universities in America, such as Johns Hopkins University (the first university research institute in America, founded by Daniel Kuyt Gilman), Harvard University, Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Columbia University, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley. Private secondary schools such as Sao Paulo, Filippo Andova, Filippo Astor, Choate and groton have always been the first choice for the children of the top rich to receive education.

Religiously, the Yankees in England inherited the Puritan tradition of the congregational church, but after 1750, they became Anglican, Methodist, Northern Baptist or monotheistic. The rigid ethics described by Hawthorne in the17th century gradually faded in the18th century, while the second Great Awakening Movement (initiated by Charles Grandi Finney and Charles Grandison Finney) at the beginning of the19th century turned to emphasize personal piety, revival of faith and dedication to civic obligations. Aminu sect replaced the original Calvinist sect. Horace Bushnell introduced the concept of Christ feeding, that is, children can convert to God without believing in resurrection.

After 1800, Yankee launched many reform movements, such as abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol, women's rights and women's right to education. During the post-war reconstruction period of 1860, Emma Willard and Mary Lyon became pioneers of women's higher education, while Americans went south to educate liberated slaves.

Politically, the Americans who ruled New England, northern new york and most of the midwest became the big ticket warehouses of the new generation of * * * and the party in the1860s, especially the Presbyterian Church, the congregational Church and the Methodist Church after the1860s. A study of 65 counties with Americans as the main ethnic group shows that the Whig Party won 40% of the local support rate in the presidential elections of 1848 and 1852, but it won 6/kloc-in the general elections of 1856 to 1864.

According to documents, the Yankees controlled commerce, finance, charity and higher education in New England and even the whole country. Socio-economy dominates New England and new york, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu. Yankee entrepreneurs, often backed by a large number of international financial exchanges between New England and new york, opened up commercial centers and industrial cities in the midwest.

The alliance between Ivy League schools and small Ivy League colleges of arts and sciences, especially Harvard and Yale, was an important town of conservative Yankee culture until the end of World War II. A typical American with higher education is introspective and usually keeps a detailed diary for a long time.

George W. John Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, is a prominent example of Americans. Coolidge moved from rural Vermont to suburban Massachusetts, where he was educated at Amherst College. However, his rough style and simple country style make him politically attractive. "Americans' noses can be used as hundreds of thousands of votes," said a political party leader.

Thurston Howell III, a fictional character in the TV series gilligan Island, who graduated from Harvard University, is a funny symbol of the old Yankee elite.

By 2 1 century, the systematic Yankee style has spread to the whole society through the education department. Although some people predict that Yankee politicians will be no match for a new generation of political animals since the1880s, Yankees are still at the top of the political spectrum, such as President Bush and his son, howard dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. He is a new generation of the ancient Forbes family, which can be traced back to the colonial period.