19th Century (1800's) America: Religion, Life, Culture Flashcards
Infrastructure
transportation and infrastructure created a growing american economy
(roads, railroads, telegraph)
2nd Great Awakening
Religious leaders tried to increase attendance after church attendance began to decline
-preached to a diverse crowd
-Displayed western expansion in cultural development
-New infrastructure allowed reachers to move around
What happened with slavery with the westward expansion?
Expanded with the expansion of cotton
-blacks advocated for their freedom
-Close ties between women’s rights and anti slavery movements b/c both lacked rights and wanted representation
Who was Frederick Douglass and what did he do?
Freed slave who gave a speech to sate that America is not truly a “free country” because the unalienable rights given to citizens were not extended to black Americans
David Walker
Believed that African Americans directly built America to what it is. Therefore, it is more their land than white people’s
-Opposes AA’s being moved to Liberia, a country they do not have a claim to
-Hypocrisy of owning slaves while being actively religious
Compromise of 1850
debate whether slavery should exist results in CA being admitted as a free state
-Fugitive slave law created: required slaves to be returned to their owners even if it was a free state
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
a violent slave rebellion in VA (1831) showed the retaliation by killing enslavers and freeing slaves
Monroe Doctrine
Written by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe to address Europe saying they wouldn’t tolerate any more control over them/wanted independence
Manifest Destiny
ideology that Americans had to move west for territorial expansion because it was their “god-given” mission
Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal (1836)
Document advocating a right to their land because they lost it due to the westward expansion
-US gov didn’t care and forced them out o f land
Trail of Tears (131)
Native Americans (Cherokee nation) forced to give up lands east of Mississippi River
-deadly walk that resulted in many Cherokees dying due to hunger, disease, and exhaustion
How did the transcontinental railroad affect Native Americans?
It took moved them again, took their land, and killed buffalo (food source)
Compromise of 1850 and results
debate over where slavery should exist results in CA being admitted as a free state
1. CA admitted as a free state
2. Fugitive slave law
3. Mexican cession divided into New Mexico and Utah without mention of slavery
Dred Scott
An enslaved man who called out Lincoln for being anti-slavery yet not seeing black people as equals
The emancipation proclamation
Declared by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that only freed slaves held in confederate states
Sand Creek Massacre
US army brutally attacked and killed innocent Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans in 1864
-came about due to western expansion and debate for land
Reconstruction: the south in 1865
Question of how to integrate newly freed african americans into social, political, and labor systems
-Goals to politically and economically reorganize the South
13th Amendment
Outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude in the US in 1865
Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865
Sought to establish free labor system & economy in the south
-established schools, aid to poor, mediating disputes
14th amendment
Granted citizenship and equal rights to african american and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the civil war
-1866
15th amendment
Voting rights for citizens cannot be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude
-1869
Declaration of sentiments
1848, Seneca Falls. Written to compare and contrast women and men’s rights to show unfairness and inequality
-advocated for women’s rights and brought attention to the issue
