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Chap 8 and 9
Ms.Correia
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History
11th Grade
10/18/2007

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Market Revolution

Definition
worsened working conditions, everything moved to factories
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lowell system

Definition
young women lived in factory houses w/ older women who acted as chaperones
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Working Conditions
Definition
the working conditions weren't good.
you worked a long day and had little pay and breaks
if you wanted to quit they didn't care cuz they could hire fast
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labor fight back against working conditions
Definition

union strikes

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Germans and Irish Immigration
Definition

irish- living conditionns, rel. + polt. freedom

german- farmland, jobs, rel. freedom

treated poorly

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Dislike of Immigrants

Definition
people disliked immigrants because they took jobs, land, and worked for cheap
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Nativism
Definition
favoring native born over foreign born
because fear of unknown/ them taking over

restrict right to vote-irish
couldn't hold office-irish
make immigrant wait 21 years for nationalization
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Southerners Invtest $ In
Definition
S. invested money in crops and slaves, because it had a fast return of profit

didnt invest in roads or factories
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Critics of Slavery
Definition
-morally wrong; men not treated equally

-not diverse
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American Colonization Society
Definition
purpose- to decrease slavery, buy from ownenrs, send to liberia

-you would either have gov't buy you from owner, or free'd
-supported by white poloticians
-FAILURE only 15,000 of 4 mil.sent back
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Defense of Slavery
Definition

-slaves were intended by God because in bible; slaves illiterate so they couldn't prove that this wasn't true.-religion
-said slaves were treated better than factory workers-paternalistic

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South People Pyramid
Definition
                               Plantation Owners
                       _ ____Small Farmers_______
               ____________whitetrash/ poor___________
_____________________________________________________________________
         ___________________Free A.A 2%______________________
________________________Slaves________________________________________
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Slave Living Conditions
Definition
not good, lots of people small space

field hand-long hours, extreme weather
house servant- chores, close supervision
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How Slave Owners Controlled Slaves

Definition
-violence
-whipping
-sweat box
-rewards

if you did something wrong they would show everyone to make an example of you and scare other slaves
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Denmark Vesey Uprising

Definition
1822 charleston South Carolina

vesey- free black man
calls for slave uprising MASSIVE
plan never acted upon
plan was found out
vesey + followers killed
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Nat Turner Uprising 1831
Definition

Virginia
Turner believed God talked to him saying "free the slaves"
Turner and followers kill plantation owner and family
killing rampage- 60 whites killed.
took monthes to capture them
they were tried and hung

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Dorthea Dix
Definition
2 years study given to mass. state legislator

said mentally ill treated awfully, needed institutions so they can be taken care of and housed.

"if you can be cured go back into society, if not -compassion"
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prison reform
Definition
people nneeded indiv. cells, shouldn't be treated like animals
house sep. based on age/ level of crime
rehab- give another change-change
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poorhouse reform
Definition
poor people could go for handouts
job training-teaching skills
to help get back on feet
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Temperance Movement
Definition

1. you cant be a soldier of christ if your always drunk
2. alcohol abusers suffer negative effects
3. industrial society's drunk effects more negative

maine outlawed alcohol
heavily taxed so it was a luxury
major drop in alcohol consumption
immigrants heavily effected

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Hoarce Mann
Definition
Public School Reform

-must have trained teacher
-need set cirriculum
-mandatory school day/year
-libraries and text books
-better school systems

"father of schools"
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Woman and A.A
Definition

-had to create schools because they were left out
schools were for white males

*oberlin ohio- school co-ed and integrated BIG contreversy

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Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin
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increased cotton because it took so much less time to clean
all slaves that did have to clean can grow more cotton
helped slavery not die out

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Women left out of womens rights movement
Definition
A.A women
working women
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black abolotionist movement
Definition
blacks helped not moving slaves back to liberia and helped to end slavery
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