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Reform Movements - Answer -Rooted in idea that humans can change society
-Most reformers were middle-class women
-Great awakening helped man think that they can change society
Temperance (1810) - Answer -Arguments for temperance
-William Cobbed said that one can ask to drink freely
-People drank a lot of alcohol
-Alcoholic republic
-American temperance union(1883) - people complained that workers didn't work as hard
enough
-Humanitarians thought that alcohol leads to poverty
-Problems in family
-Evangelicals promoted morality
-Experience meetings
-Prohibitionists sought american cultural values on these groups
-Lectures, press campaigns, essay contests
Abstinence
-Sale of liquor was going to be prohibited
Prison/Asylum Reform: - Answer -Penitentiary: rehabilitation
-chained,anked,beaten
Auburn Penitentiary in New York in 1860 - Answer -Had separate cells
Severe discipline
-No harm to each other
Silenced
-Did community work
,-Wardens called her a liar
-By 1860 others funded as well
-Perkins School for the blind in Boston
Women's movement - Answer -Cult of Domesticity
-Seneca Falls- July 19 1848 issued a document
-Catherine Beacher - she began to challenge her position as a domestic housewife
-Decl. of Sentiments- self evident that men and women are equal
-Could not vote or have rights to property
-Challenged their position
-Origins of first women's rights movement
-Abolitionist movement
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton- held Seneca Falls convention
-Lucretia Mott - helped write Decl. of Sentiments
-Susan B, Anthony - fought for women's suffrage, anti-slavery
-1839 Michigan gave rights of women to their property
American Colonization Society - Answer - proposed to resettle freed slaves in Africa
-Supporters like James Madison, John Marshall
-Freed blacks would cause trouble
-15,000 blacks were put back
William Lloyd Garrison - Answer - wrote the Liberator, tired of moderation and renounced
doctrine of gradual work, and wrote without holding back
-Combatted slave holders
American Anti Slavery Society: - Answer -Founded by Garrison
-Built on top of British abolitionist movement
-Slaveholding is a heinous crime in the eyes of God and that they abandon it
-Religious and civil rights
, Elijah Lovejoy - Answer Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an
abolitionist martyr
John Tyler's presidency - Answer -Opposed Whig/Clay's American System
-Vetoed national bank
-Whigs deserted him
-Tensions with the british → Britain eradicated slavery and now trying to supress trans atlantic
slave trade
-British closed off parts of Africa
Manifest Destiny - Answer -Overspread the continent allotted by the providence for the free
development of our yearly multiplying
-Religious and racial connotations
-Whites can only save the earth
-White supremacy
Indians and Mexican in the west - Answer -There were 200 tribes at least, each with different
culture and languages
-Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackwood in the great plains
-"All we want is a portion of territory"
-A lot of the mexicans now live in what is now New Mexico
-Apache and Navajo who attacked the smaller indian tribes
-Comanches attacked the Apache and Navajo
-1848 Americans made up non indian population
Overland trail - Answer -350,000 men,women, and children migrate between 1841 and 1867
-Grueling Journey
-Division of labor
-Donner party - group of 87 immigrants that left springfield illinois and went along california
trail
-From independence Missouri to Oregon
-Oxen pulled the whole time
-Gold rush of Cali brought 30,000 in 1849