4.1.3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Temperance Movement
working class (longer working hours), stressed: drinking, substance abuse, impacting not only themselves, but other people, lead to gambling, prostitution, husbands were becoming violent and abusive to their wive, leaving everything for the wife to do
Temperance
means, abstinence( restrain use of)/sobriety(state of being sober) that leads to social issues
Temperance Movements
social movements that were against the consumption of alcohol which was the early start of prohibition
prohibition
prohibiting the sales of manufacturing
Neal Dow
governor of Maine, created the Maine Law (some people wanted a complete banning of alcohol), and it did not support slavery and alcohol consumption
1st Temperance Movement
(1764-1861) New York and Virginia joined the ban on alcohol, American Temperance Society was created
How temperance affected the future
It led to National Prohibition(1920s), 2 more movements, and it supported woman’s rights
Market Revolution
It led to extremely long working hours(14-15), led overworked individuals looking for ways to relieve their stress
Abolitionists
small in the south, present in the north, weren’t dependent on slave labor, liked industry (economy), in the south they relied on big plantation farming
William Lloyd Garrison
president of the American Anti-slavery Society, favored woman’s rights movement, “Our country is the world-Our country men are mankind.” Encouraged woman to get involved with the anti-slavery movement. “No compromise with the evil of slavery.”
John Brown: Pottawatomie Massacre
believed the only way to liberate slaves was through insurrection (violent uprising against an authority/gov’t), Involved Brown & abolition settlers murdering 5 slave masters, giving him & his followers a negative look from other abolitionists because they took a violent(democratic) approach at the situation
Fredrick Douglas
former slave, tried to abolish slavery, first African American to meet the president, wrote books about his experiences to show people what slavery was really about, worked with while abolitionists, he also gained his freedom
political abolitionists
didn’t have a violent motives, elected anti-slavery candidates
Black Codes
laws passed in the south, that restricted the rights of African Americans, southerns made slaves sign contracts, ensuring their labor at all times, if they refused to sign: they would be forced into unpaid labor, no food, or thrown into jail
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
a slave rebellion that killed every white person they encountered
Gabriel’s Conspiracy
a slave rebellion that attacked Richmond (enslaved blacksmith), they were eventually arrested, prosecuted and then hung (26 men)
Enlargement of the African American population
was led by the anti-slavery movement and abolitionists
Before Seneca Falls Convention
woman had no rights, subordinate(lower rank) of their husbands, had secret ways to protect themselves (threatened their husbands)
Market Economy
more separation of men and woman
woman’s role in society
work on textiles, 10% of woman chose not to marry(spinster), usually the middle or lower class
men’s role in society
industrialized work
Seneca Falls
began woman’s rights, start of how woman got their independence/freedom, men and woman discussed woman’s rights, didn’t pass the 19th amendment until 1920
Lucretia Mott
anti-slavery advocate
Susan B. Anthony
lecture for woman’s rights
