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APUSH Chapter 11 Outlines
APUSH Chapter 11 Outlines
APUSH Chapter 11 Outlines
2.
Margaret Fuller:
3.
Walt Whitman:
4.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, 1850) and Herman Melville
(Moby Dick, 1851) addressed the opposition between individualism and
social order, discipline, and responsibility.
5.
Utopias: Ideal communities that sought to achieve perfection (withdraw
from conventional society)
6.
The most important was Brook Farm (1841)~~a communal experiment.
~~Members hoped to develop their minds and souls and then uplift
society.
7.
Brook Farm failed financially, the transcendentalists abandoned their
attempts to fashion a new social organization, yet their passion for
individual freedom lived on in the movement to abolish slavery.
D.
Joseph Smith and the Mormon Experience
1.
Joseph Smith organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints;
2.
Smith believed in polygamyhaving more than one wife at a time.
3.
Smith and his brother were murdered; Brigham Young led the
Mormons to Utah.
4.
The Mormon War was a bloodless encounter; President James
Buchanan was afraid that if he tried to eliminate polygamy it might set a
precedent that could be used to end slavery.
5.
Mormons affirmed traditional patriarchal authority; encouraged hard
work and entrepreneurship and endorsed private ownership of property.
III.
Abolitionism
A.
Black Social Thought: Uplift, Race Equality, and Rebellion
1.
Black Social Thought: Uplift, Race Equality, and Rebellion:
2.
David Walker:
3.
B.
Evangelical Abolitionism
1.
Radical abolitionist
2.
3.
C.
Opposition and Internal Conflict
1.
2.
Amalgamation: Many whites opposed the intermarriage of whites
and blacks
3.
Elijah Lovejoy: Murdered in Illinois, outspoken abolitionist and
editor of newspaper.
4.
Gag Rule All anti-slavery petitions in the House would not be
discussed.
5.
The abolitionist movement split over womens rights: Garrisons
American Anti-Slavery Society supported womens rights
6.
Some abolitionists established the Liberty Party and nominating
James G. Birney for president in 1840, but he won few votes.
7.
The very strength of abolitionism proved to be its undoing because it
aroused the hostility of the majority of the white population.
society.
2.
Dorothea DixReform mental health and social institution (mental
hospital, prison, asylums)
3.
4.
By the 1850s, most teachers were women, in part because of Catharine
Beechers arguments that women were the best qualified to instruct the
young but also because women could be paid less than men.
5.
Grimke Sister: used Christian and Enlightenment principles to claim
equal civic rights for women.
C.
The Program of Seneca Falls and Beyond
1.
The leading feminists met at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.
Declaration of Sentiments: All Men and Women are created equal.
Relied on the Declaration of Independence.
2.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the campaign for
equal voting, legal and property rights for women.
3.
In 1860, NY granted women the right to collect and spend their own
wages, and to control property they brought into their marriage.