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| Shift from producer culture to consumer culture |
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| Characteristics of Market Revolution |
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Rapid population growth
Urbanization
Technological advancements |
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| Social Impact of the Market Revolution |
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Rise of textile mills
Ex. Lowell Mills (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Workers life more structured & less independent
Opportunities for women to earn wages
1834 – female workers@ Lowell protest wage cuts |
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| bright, competitive, & virtuous |
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| Cult of True Womanhood includes: |
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| piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity |
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| Catharine Beecher’s wrote: |
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| Treatise of Domestic Economy (1841) |
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| William Lloyd Garrison published: |
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| The Liberator; white supporter of abolitionism; believed in an immediate in to slavery |
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| Theodore Dwight Weld believed: |
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| white abolitionist; believed in gradual end to slavery |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote: |
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| Uncle Tom’s Cabin; slavery is un-Christian; violation of American rights (freedom, equality, and Christian brotherhood) |
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| William (abolition cause) |
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| British scholar; causes for British abolitionism were "economic", not humanitarian; he saw abolitionists as antitrust leaders and plantation owners as monopolies. |
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| slavery and freedom could not coexist in industrialized societies; Abolitionists were responsible for protecting the urban movement from the disease and destruction of slavery; argued that slavery was the “ultimate limit of dehumanization, of treating and regarding a man as a ‘thing’” |
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| Abolition is a direct outgrowth of democracy – an extension of the ideal that all men are created equal; saw an ironic problem: Britain became more dependent on slavery in the colonies, even as it was professing a stronger commitment to freedom in Britain |
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free slaves
no federal intervention
gradualism = eventually owners would manumit their slaves |
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| Frederick Douglass supported this idea: |
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| “Immediatism” - called for an immediate in to slavery |
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| Henry David Thoreau didn't: |
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(He didn't) pay his taxes to go against Mexican-American War.
Show of “Civil Disobedience” |
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| Nicholas Trist negotiated: |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago (Feb. 2, 1848) |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago (Feb. 2, 1848) entailed: |
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US rec’v’d present-day California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado
US paid Mexico $15 million dollars (& assumed $2 million in
individual claims)
Rio Grande River boundary for Texas |
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| Wilmot Proviso (in regards to new states) |
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David Wilmot
free of slavery
Supported by northern antislavery supporters
Blocked in Congress by Southern senators
Issue split both Whigs and Democrats along sectional lines |
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| Popular Sovereignty (1848) |
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Lewis Cass
"We the people" decided what happens in each state about slavery. |
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| Candidates of "Election of 1848": |
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•Zachary Taylor -R– Whig candidate; noncommittal
•Lewis Cass -D– platform centered on popular sovereignty
•Martin Van Buren -D– Free Soil Party; Wilmot Proviso |
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coalition of northern antislavery Whigs, Democrats, & Liberty Party men; against slavery in the territories.
Motto: “Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men” |
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-1st Nominating convention in South Carolina (1860)
eight cotton states walk out after Stephen Douglass nominated
-2nd convention met in Baltimore (1860)
cotton states walk out again b/c Douglass nominated & there is support for popular sovereignty by northern Democrats |
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| (1860) Southern Democrats nominate: |
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| John Breckenridge; who opposed popular sovereignty |
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| (1860) Northern Democrats nominate: |
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| Stephen Douglass; supports popular sovereignty (wins twice at conventions) |
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| (1860) Republicans nominate: |
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| Abraham Lincoln; supports not interference w/ slavery where it exists |
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| (1860) Constitutional Union Party nominates: |
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| John Bell; supports compromise on slavery issues & supports preservation of the Constitution and the Union |
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| Issues of Republican Party Platform (1860) |
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- no extension of slavery in new territories
- protective tariffs for industrialists, esp. northerners
- extend Pacific Railroad (for the Northwest)
- internal improvements for the West @ federal expense
- free homesteads from the public domain for farmers |
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| Southern States Secede from the Union: |
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South Carolina
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
(April 1861)
Georgia
Virginia
Arkansas
North Carolina
Tennessee |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| 1st pres. Jefferson Davis |
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| Crittenden Amendment – proposed by Sen. John Crittenden (KY) |
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| Measure was rejected by Pres. Lincoln b/c he believed he was elected on the principle of the not extending slavery into new territories |
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Attack on Ft. Sumter begins the Civil War
Maj. Robert Anderson
Notified Pres. Lincoln that supplies running low & would be forced to surrender |
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a.Send supplies
b.Send reinforcements
c.Solution: sent a letter to South Carolinians that he would send supplies to the fort, not reinforcements |
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Secession
Glory
Excitement
Sense of Responsibility (to defend home & family)
Patriotism
Maintaining Slavery
Abolishing Slavery |
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| (helped) runaway slaves by using the underground railway. |
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