8 Things (with Examples) to Notice from Chapters 11 and 12
These are not in
the textbook’s page order.
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What to Notice (with Examples) |
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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 ·
1840s -Free Soil
(also becomes a political party) |
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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) |
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Immigration into
the region (Note: nativism continues. In the South, there is a higher
proportion of native born.) |
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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.) |
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Religion: ·
2nd
Great Awakening ·
Growth of
Methodist and Baptists – but those churches split over slavery about 1860 |
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1840s-1850s –By whites,
rebellion against laws about returning slaves to the South OR by illegally
trying to help slaves escape – Underground Railroad |
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1800-1850 – By
slaves, rebellion or resistance ·
Gabriel (VA) ·
D. Vesey (SC) ·
N. Turner (VA) |
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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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