Exam 2 Flashcards
Transportation Revolution
Cult of Domesticity
Agricultural Revolution
Cult of Domesticity
Transition-Putting out system (Piece Rate)
Apprenticeship system
Cult of Domesticity
Factories ( North owned slaves)
-Waltham
-Lowell
Cult of Domesticity
Religious Revival
-Utopianism
-Second Great Awakening
-No more Calvinism
Cult of Domesticity
Republican Motherhood
-Women involved in the American Revolution, able to be part of society
-Mother in charge of creating good citizens, went to school to learn and teach
Cult of Domesticity
Haven in a heartless world- Men are corrupt dirty world, women in private world
Cult of Domesticity
Four Attributes of an Ideal Women
-Domestic- Home
-Submissive
-Pious-More religious- lots of power
-Pure-spermatic economy
Cult of Domesticity
Spermatic economy-everyone has a finite amount of energy
-Passionless, not like sex
Cult of Domesticity
Good Girl v Bad Girl
Cult of Domesticity
Birthrate down
-war, men dying
-city life
- women working
-passionless
Cult of Domesticity
Voluntarism
-Dorothea Dix-work with the mentally ill(taught at prison)
-Temporalism- anti-alcohol
-Suffrage right to vote
-Lucretia Mott- fight against slavery/abolishment
Cult of Domesticity
Lydia Sigourney Sentimentalizes Women in the Home
Cult of Domesticity
Farm to Factory-Women Letters
Cult of Domesticity
Dorothea Dix, on behalf of the Insane
Cult of Domesticity
Temperance Activist
Cult of Domesticity
Seneca Falls Declaration
Cult of Domesticity
Sojourners Truth, Ain’t I a women
Cult of Domesticity
We believed slavery would die on its own
-Quaker= Everyone is everyone/no minister/women rights and slavery -
-Gradual Emmanicipation
Slavery
Slavery hold on
-Constitution- 3/5 comprise, rights of property, free states must return runaway slaves, can’t vote slave trade for 20 years (1808)
Slavery
Cotton Gin-Super profitable
-Missouri Comprise - 1820 Every time add free state+ slaves = 1845 15 new slave states
-Middle Passage -Route of slaves from Africa to New World
Slavery
Justification of having slaves
-Slaves treated well
-Paternalism- John Pendleton Kennedy( fake stories )
- Superior to wage slaves (factory workers)-Don’t have to worry about clothing, food, housing
-Scientific Racism - Dr. Samuel Cartwright
Slavery
Justification of abuse of slave women
Jezebel - Endlessly sexually
Mammy- Good woman
African Condition-women dressing, exotic dancing, polygamy,
Slavery
Slave Trade Document by John Barbet
Slavery
Swallow Barn by John Pendleton Kennedy
Fake story of treating slaves
Slavery
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Sexual Abuse from Master
Slavery
A Former Slave Recalls an Outbreak of “Malitis
Tricked Master
Slavery
An Excerpt from “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Fought Back
Slavery
Andrew Jackson 7th President
-Common Man
King Andrew
Jackson