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Great Famine of 1840’s

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potato blight in ireland from 1845-1850 causes mass starvation and immigration to the united states

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New wave of immigration

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1840’s-1850’s

-Chinese, Irish, German & Mexican-Americans

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Chinese Immigration

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most immigrants from Guangdong- hard b/c illegal to leave

  • Americans in Hawaii/California see Chinese as solution for shortage of workers on sugar plantations
  • White miners resist Chinese workers
  • Work on railroads
  • lure of work & opportunity enticed themt
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1852 Foreign Miners Tax

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CA legislature adopts foreign miners license tax of $3 per month

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Irish Immigration

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  • 2 million came
  • Work in urban communities(NYC & Boston)
  • Growth of the Catholic Church in America
  • most were Protestants/Presbyterians
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German Immigration

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  • had better financial resources
  • came to midwestern cities
  • -mainly kept to themselves
  • not as distrusted as Irish
  • introduced Christmas tree and beer
  • diverse group of Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans and Amish
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Know-Nothing Party

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  • Anti-immigrant group founded 1837 and political party in 1845
  • platform=anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, limiting Catholic political power and banning immigrants to hold office/making them wait 21 years before becoming a citizen
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Committees of Vigilance

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  • in California mining camps, groups of people who took on extra legal means to assert law and order
  • delivered whippings and lynched ppl they didn’t like
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Growth of slavery

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  • after War of 1812- planters get economic gain from slavery including developments in tech and transportation
  • cotton prices increase
  • treatment improved slightly (pregnant slaves mean more workers, kids can play until 10-12 and then work)
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Underground Railroad

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  • escape from Southern plantations to free Northern
  • states support system set up by anti-slavery groups in upper south and north to assist fugitive slaves in escaping the south
  • 1860- 50,000 slaves ran away every year out of total pop. of 4 million
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Notable runaways

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Henry Highland Garnet
Frederick Douglass
-Born slave in Maryland, 1817
-First attempt to run- 1835
-1838- ran to NY and succeeded
Harriet Tubman
-returned to south and helped others leave through Underground Railroad
-born 1820 and almost died at 14 when overseer threw weight at her head
-married John Tubman in 1844
-1849- went to Philly and worked domestically

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Slave Rebels and Revolts

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1822- Denmark Vesey and supporters plan to burn Charleston and burn residents, then sail to Haiti
1831- Nat Turner killed 60 slave owning whites and 100 slaves killed in process
=published The Confessions of Nat Turner
=Laws make slaves reading and writing illegal
-David Walker called for slave uprisings, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
==Henry Highland Garnet said the same

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The Liberator

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1831- William Lloyd Garrison declares he will not retreat

-newspaper dedicated to antislavery cause

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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1833-Boston society dedicated to abolition in all of the U.S.

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Oberlin Abolitionism

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-Garrison sent out 70 organizers to preach sin of slavery and repentance of abolitionism

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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

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  • resolutions passed at Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848
  • called for full equality and right to vote for women
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Letters on the Equality of the Sexes

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Grimké sisters publish this book in 1838 and become first female reps for Anti-Slavery Society in 1836 in NYC

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Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention

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  • organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
  • held in upstate NY 1848
  • Mott and Stanton attended Anti-Slavery convention w/husbands and then decided to host a women’s convention the next week
  • mostly brought negative attention
  • Abolitionists supported it and more women spoke out like Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage
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Other issues with women’s rights

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  • Higher education for women, the right of women to control property, and the right to obtain divorces
  • Black women were reluctant to join various integrated societies since white women tended to dominate them

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