Friday Nov. 13

Question 1

Things for quiz (Monday)

Answer 1

Mexican War

Second Great Awakening

Question 2

Options

Answer 2

Gradual v. immediate emancipation
-gradual
immediate emancipation
shock, change in society; people don’t like drastic change.
(Ex. Obamacare, women suffrage)
polarized society; one group wants slavery- other doesn’t
This is how the civil war is brought upon.
moral issue= dealt with immediately

Compensation?
-constitutional private property that americans hold onto

Colonization?
-slaves are free, how is society going to function
-people though blacks and white could not live together.
-set up foundation;
American colonization society (1817)
-black and whites cannot live together
lead to founding Liberia 
which they moved to 
North of free; but how free?; 

Extreme v. moderate
-extreme views quiet anyone who is moderate
America is becoming divided.

Question 3

Background of Abolition

Answer 3

The slave trade and abolition movements

• international movement; neighbor does it, you should too
• Britain abolishes slave trade
• eventually slavery in general
• France as well after French revolution
• colonies in the Caribbean making lots of money; allowed it -(Ex. Ethics vs. money)
• ship surgeons handbooks with print culture IMPORTANT
• Ex (disease make people blind; crew can’t see- slaves went through)
• adopt abolition

The Second Great Awakening
-Revivals
-Charles Finney (1830-1831 moves west) (God doesn’t choose you; you choose God) direct pushback of the enlightenment
-He overturned using the message and humans if you have relationship with God you need to show a Godly representation and overturn evil.
-Once society did this, God would return (post millennium)
- godly world didn’t have war, prostitution, slavery, profanity
(Example of people being motivated not based on money)
Rise of social movement

Question 4

People in Abolitionist movement (Example of equal rights)

Answer 4

Benjamin Lundy- The Genius of Universal Emancipation

• did not believe in slavery
• goes to baltimore
• moderate approach, unify,

William Lloyd Garrison- The Liberator

• Boston
• not a moderate approach.
• why slavery should be abolished
• doesn’t want to be part of a country who encourages it
• anarchists/radical

Frederick Douglas- The North Star

• reflecting slaves in south that follow the north star to get to the north.
• autobiography to endure plantation life
• thinking about equality, american identity

Seneca Falls Convention (women’s rights 1848)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• support abolition movement
• fight for equality of races, why don’t we do that for gender?
• New York
• Decide what rights women need/want

Question 5

Protections to Slavery

Answer 5

States Rights

• fed gov’t should stay out of it
• people wanted it=do it

Property Rights
-compensated= were emancipated, would they be payed back?

Question 6

Vulnerable Aspects of Slavery

Answer 6

Slavery in District of Columbia
-could make it a fed issue
-not a state
-slavery was legal
-petition congress to abolish slavery
-Gag Rule( 1836) = have to acknowledge of petition, but they ignored them.
-violated 1st amendment (freedom of speech)
-Fugitive slave law (slave escape, found in free do we return them? YES they are required because they are private property
-Northern states enacted laws:Personal liberty law= against fugitive slave law
-slave catcher could be charged as a kidnapper.
-or not enforce fugitive slave law
How powerful should the fed gov’t be?

Question 7

Review

Answer 7

How did westward expansion impact the issue of slavery and other large themes such as “American Identity”?

• making money/ethics
• the environment (nature is seen as products)
• better life
• cotton gin
• sectionalism (America should be unified; agree what America means or what America means to them)

How did the idea of environmental determinism impact the U.S. in the first half of the 1800s?

• North Vs. South
• South-agriculture,
• North had mills (factories on rivers water power, wage workers)
• Split