8 Things (with Examples) to Notice from Chapters 11 and 12

These are not in the textbook’s page order.

 

North

South

West

National

 

 

 

What to Notice (with Examples)

1.       

 

X

X

 

 

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

Organizations to deal with  slavery:

·        1820s -American Colonization Society – Liberia

·        1830s -American Anti-Slavery Society – W.L. Garrison/The Liberator; Fredrick Douglass (black(/The North Star
Not a newspaper, but useful-D. Walker’s Appeal (black)

·        1840s -Free Soil (also becomes a political party)

2.       

X

 

 

 

Literacy and reading for most and reading materials

·        Horace Mann – public education

·        Authors with American themes – from Hawthorne toWhitman and Dickinson

·        Authors and speakers on transcendentalism - Emerson, Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

3.       

X

 

 

 

Immigration into the region (Note: nativism continues. In the South, there is a higher proportion of native born.)

4.       

X

 

 

 

Reform (attempts to make varied things better than they were) in addition to abolition and literacy:

·        Conditions for prisoners and the insane – Dorothea Dix

·        Suffrage, continues but a few women also demand it in the Seneca Falls Declaration.

o    Some are focused on suffrage.- Susan B. Anthony.

o   Some start as opposed slavery and came to realize that women’s legal positions were similar.  S. Truth, Grimke sisters)

·        Temperance (no alcohol)

·        Utopian communes  - many groups living together in common. Example: Shakers were both religious and utopian (wanting to make the world perfect by living by example or at least live perfectly themselves).

·        Women’s rights – none (See also suffrage above.)

5.       

 

 

 

X

Religion:

·        2nd Great Awakening

·        Growth of Methodist and Baptists – but those churches split over slavery about 1860

6.       

X

 

 

 

1840s-1850s –By whites, rebellion against laws about returning slaves to the South

OR by illegally trying to help slaves escape – Underground Railroad

7.       

 

X

 

 

1800-1850 – By slaves, rebellion or resistance

·        Gabriel (VA)

·        D. Vesey (SC)

·        N. Turner (VA)

8.       

 

X

 

 

Traits

·        Illiteracy

·        Myths – covered extensively in the text

·        Peculiar institution (with peculiar defined as unique)

·        Racism as a comfort for poor whites of varied classes

·        Shift after the 1820s to greater dependency on a single crop (“King Cotton”) that was sold to Great Britain, France, and the North, to having a majority of slaves used in cotton production, and to the number of slaves increasing

·        Shift after the 1820s from the view of slavery as a necessary evil to belief that it was a positive good

 

 

 

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