Wednesday 11/5 Look back at your notes from pg 15, which early black abolitionist would have said (& did say), The whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious and blood-thirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority Whats up for today: Finish pg 15 Turner Review Douglass Excerpt Notes page 16 Crossword Info Check Reminder: THURSDAY 1 st pd ACT day SSUSH7 Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it/Describe reform movements, specifically temperance, abolitionism, and public school. Women in Society -cult of domesticity the role women were to uphold husband, children, home, church -could not vote in most places -could not own property or keep wages if husband livedportal.com/academy/lesson/the- transcendentalism-movement-and-social- reform.html#lesson Reformers -Abolitionists / Suffrage (right to vote) Grimke sisters leading abolitionists Lucretia Mott abolitionist, womens rights advocate Elizabeth Stanton - abolitionist, womens rights ad. Susan B. Anthony leading womens rights Sojourner Truth freed slave, abolitionist -Temperance move to ban alcohol Started by women who were sick of drunk husbands and domestic abuse "The most momentous reform that had yet been launched on the world---the first organized protest against the injustice which had brooded for ages over the character and destiny of one-half the race.--Stanton "Our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages which she earns, the property which she inherits, and, in case of separation, the children of her love; laws which make her the mere dependent on his bounty." "The right is ours. The question now is: how shall we get possession of what rightfully belongs to us? Imagine the publicity given to our ideas by thus appearing in a widely circulated sheet like the Herald. It will start women thinking, and men, too, and when men and women think about a new question, the first step in progress is taken. The great fault of mankind is that it will not think. -Lucretia Mott Womens Movement -women saw increased opportunities in reform movements women were often: abolitionists, for temperance, bettering society, involved with church functions -Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Declaration of Sentiments : modeled after the Declaration of Independence 1920 Capitalism an economic system characterized by private (you and I) or corporate ownership of goods Choice, Competition, Consumers Prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market. Free Market: an economic system which prices are based on competition among private businesses and not controlled by a government Beecher: American educator Focus on female education support of the kindergarten Oberlin: 1 st college to freely admit women/blacks (OH) Blackwell: 1 st woman to receive a MD in the US Amelia Bloomer- American women's rights and temperance advocate. bloomers Transportation Changes -Robert Fulton steam powered ships -1 st commercial steamboat -many canals were built after Erie was completed -growth of railroads Inventions Improve Life -Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber -I.M. Singer sewing machines -Samuel Morse telegraph Morse code Agriculture -people began to move into the mid-western parts of the nation -lots of available farm lands -John Deere steel plows -Cyrus McCormick mechanical reaper Factory System Begins -Lowell textile mills first factory. Women worked there under harsh conditions -factory system increased the production of goods in America -company town for young girls -strict control over the workers lives ruled by the bell -factory conditions would warn of future problems Working Conditions -long hours -six days a week -poor ventilation and lighting -unsafe working conditions -development of labor unions and strikes Immigration -lots of immigration in the mid 1800s -mostly Irish or German -most immigrants settled in groups -low wages of immigrants caused problems with other workers -Growth of Nativism-opposition to immigration -Know-Nothing Party Know Nothing/American Party movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic Some violence against Germans and Irish immigrants Reformer Chart Use pages Book pages Due today