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Unit 10

Unit 10. Notes. Reforms in the 1800’s. Abolition Woman’s Rights Movement Education Care for mentally ill, deaf, blind Prisons Temperance. Leaders of the era. Frederick Douglass – leading African-American abolitionist, accomplished orator and writer

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Unit 10

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  1. Unit 10 Notes

  2. Reforms in the 1800’s • Abolition • Woman’s Rights Movement • Education • Care for mentally ill, deaf, blind • Prisons • Temperance

  3. Leaders of the era • Frederick Douglass – leading African-American abolitionist, accomplished orator and writer • Susan B. Anthony – key spokesperson for the 19th century women’s suffrage movement • Elizabeth Cady Stanton – leader of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement ,called for the  first convention of women’s movement in Seneca Falls, wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments” which was approved at the Seneca Falls Convention

  4. Frederick Douglas • Abolitionist speaker • Spoke about his life as a slave

  5. The Abolitionist Movement

  6. Sojourner Truth • African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. • Escaped slavery with infant daughter • Sued and won case to get son out of slavery • Spoke out against slavery

  7. Abolitionist Publications • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) • The North Star (nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper in the U.S. by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.) • The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831)

  8. Women’s Suffrage Movement • Susan B. Anthony…American civil rights • leader…introduced women's suffrage into the United States. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton…social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. • Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

  9. Declaration of Sentiments • Document signed at Seneca Falls Convention 1848 • Author…Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Purpose…"grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."

  10. Reform Movement achievements • Women…no voting rights but now on the public conscience • Gained property rights • After Seneca Falls Convention many more conventions held. • 100 signers (of the Declaration of Sentiments) only one still alive in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment passed.

  11. Reform Movement achievements • Shorter work day • New hospitals/schools • Schools for the deaf and the blind • Orphanages • Hospitals/help for the mentally ill • Prison reforms

  12. Lucy Stone • Women’s rights activist • Spoke out against slavery • Established the “Woman’s Journal” magazine

  13. Second Great Awakening • a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States • Motivated reformers • Increased both class and regional differences

  14. John James Audubon • Studied and painted American birds • Provided a new understanding of anatomy and animal behavior • Inspired future naturalists

  15. Walt Whitman • Realism (as a literary genre) • Considered Father of American Free Verse • Wrote “Leaves of Grass”

  16. Impressions Paper • Dixie (Southern) • Battle Hymn of the Republic (Northern) • Write a 1 page Impressions paper that compares and contrast the feelings, emotions and visions of the two songs. • Think about where these two halves of the US are heading (Civil War) and the issues that precede the war.

  17. Mark Twain • “Huckleberry Finn” • Publication date 1884

  18. Hudson River School • Landscapes • Connection with nature • American West

  19. American Art and Liturature • Often focused on nature • Transcendentalism…core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. • …had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

  20. Music • “Battle Hymn of the Republic”…hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe • …links the judgment of the wicked at the end of time (New Testament) with the American Civil War.

  21. Music • “Dixie”…also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie” • …likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the Southern United States.

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