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37 Cards in this Set
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Southern social change
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Increased dependence on slavery
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Development of commerce
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Larger middle class everywhere, especially in the north
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Industrialization
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Poverty and immigrants, who formed the frontier
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The American city - cons
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very unhealthy- waste, plumbing, sweres were gross
major epidemics |
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The American city - pros
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(1) Jobs
(2) Opportunity for advancement (3) Leisure stuff (4) Labor Unions |
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The south
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Distribution of wealth
(1) Aristocracy had most the wealth (2) middle class - tradesmen, brokers, professionals (3) working class - factories/craft/etc |
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Cult of domesticity
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Women raised kids and men worked
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Poverty
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Immigrants!
Ireland and Germany -treated poorly because of job competition -Irish were Catholic -violence, which resulted in municipal police |
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Rural life
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no neighbors! family ties were strong.
Family and church was everything. no transporation (other than water) more substinence |
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Slavery
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MOST PEOPLE DID NOT OWN SLAVES
-only 2% population owned 20+ slaves |
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Southern paternalism
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-black people couldn't take care of themselves so slavery benefitted EVERYONE
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Slaves
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substinence poverty
Housed in one room cabins with their family bad conditions Imports were banned in 1808, so it was necessary to keep slaves alive. |
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Yeomen
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whites who owned no slaves and farmed land with their families
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Landless whites
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Farmed as tenants, hired themselves out as laborers
Small chance for climbing social ladder |
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Free blacks
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Freed from Revolutionary War
black codes: could not own guns, etc. Suffered prejudiced Many mulattos (many were relatively rich) |
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Frontier Living
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The Louisiana Purchase was awaiting people.
US gov. encouraged it by selling cheap, loaning money, etc. |
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Squatters
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ignored requirement to buy land and took a random piece by themselves
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Ohio valley
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grain production and grain farming
"The nation's bredbasket" |
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Fur trading on the frontier
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Constantly moved west
Hunted beavers to extinction |
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The west
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cattle ranchers
Miners difficult life (climate ,NA) Symbolized freedom and EQUALITY |
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Second Great Awakening
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Early in the century
Formed in random places - revivals |
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Temperance societies
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WOMEN were HUGE on reforms
Grew until the amendment in 1919 |
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Other groups
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Anti-gambling
Lotteries outlawed Anti-prostitution Penitentiaries Asylums Orphanages |
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Dorothea Dix
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REHAB criminals rather than punish them
Helped mental prisoners |
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Shakers - an Utopian group
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group from quakers that thought people neglected afterlives
gave equality to women celibacy - numbers diminished |
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Mormons
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Joseph Smith - Acceptance of polygamy
Left to Salt Lake region Made the area from desert to farmable place |
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Women's Rights movement
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Seneca Falls Convention - motivated by anti-slavery convention where Lucretia Mott and Stanton were rejected
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Woman's suffrage
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Susan B. Anthony
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Horrace Mann
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public education and started using books
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THE BIGGIE- Abolition
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In 1830s, only Quakers wanted to abolish slavory.
Great Awakening persuaded many. |
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Kinds of abolitionists
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(1) Immediatists - emancipation immediately
(2) Moderates - slowly with southern cooperation |
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William Lloyd Garison
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Immediatist who began The Liberator. Powerful righter that fueled debate. Antigonized the south and stirred up Congress.
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Gag rule
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Congress forbade discussion on the issue
(1836 - 1844) |
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The early abolitionists
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Were black. They met in convention every year.
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Frederick Douglass
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Published The North Star. He was an escaped slave that published an autobiography
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Harriet Tubman
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Underground railroad to bring slaves to safety
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Sojourner Truth
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Campaigned for emancipation and women's rights. Good speaker
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