Week4 Flashcards
(37 cards)
What was burned over district
Western NY, many meetings took place
Second great awakening
- move into more Christian movement amongst slaves and Indians
- more evangelical (more from the heart)
- preached separation between god and man
- Christianity can improve a mans character at eternal happiness
- location burned over distruct
Charles finney(and leecher)
- began as a Methodist and then moved away from church
- was a prominent evangelical leader
- free will is god given
- against predestination
- “all holiness is voluntary”
- message of “self control” for better afterlife or judgement
- temperance -drink less
- horrified old church
- preached equally between men and women
Religion in the south evolves differently
-withheld truth of free will to (maintain slavery)
Transcendentalism
- Margaret fuller
- enjoying a elation to the universe
Henry David Thoreau
- Transcendentalist
- walden, or life in the woods
- “I won’t to the woods to live deliberately”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Transcendentalist
Bronson Alcott and Louisa may Alcott
- little women
- utopian movements
- fruit lands
- only grow things that grow upwards
- no milk or cheese, couldn’t wear cotton (came from slavery)
- wore fibers, linens
- ate nuts
Utopian movements
- came about from transcendentalism uprising
- shakers
Seneca falls convention, 1848
- “all men and women are created equal”
- listed grievance like DOI
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
- originally daughters of slaveowner
- peeled off after conversion with the Quakers
Elizabeth cady Stanton
- interviewed the man in FL who saved many slaves
- antislavery in western NY
Abolition
- Quakers had the first antislavery movement
- Genius of Emancipation
- ^gradual and relaxed approach to emancipation
Antelope case, 1825
- 300 chained Africans on a ship seized off the US coast
- although slavery was contrary to nature it was legal for counties to make laws concerning slavery
- might is right
William Lloyd garrison &the liberator, 1831
- gradual liberation plans are wrong
- pushed for immediate emancipation
- blamed for Nat turner uprising
- didn’t wear cotton
American antislavery society, 1831
- Arthur and Lewis Tappan
- opposed by general public(caused divisions between people)
- whites resented laws that came about from slavery pressure
- gag rule- abridgment of rights
Elijah lovejoy, 1836
- had an abolitionist paper
- press destroyed three times
- killed in 1837
- early white murder for antislavery cause
Amistad case, 1839
- 50 free Africans on board
- enslaved take over ship
- ruling from court affirmed slave owners rights
World antislavery congress, 1840
- women went to congress as delegates
- couldn’t vote in debates
- Mott, Stanton, child, Grimke sisters, William Lloyd garrison
Lucia Mott
- elderly
- kind courageous person
- antislavery society
Coahuila y tejas
G
Donner party
- 1846
- wagon trail headed to Cali
- from Springfield, IL
- caught on cold Sierra Nevada
- drew straws to see who got eaten
Peculiar institution
-slavery happens but people generally ignore it
South religious beliefs vs north religious beliefs
-Southern Babtist
