final Flashcards
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fugitive slave act
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- passed in 1850
- required individuals to return runaway enslaved people back to their enslavers
- created special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without a jury trial or court testimony
- local authorities were not allowed to interfere with the capture of fugitives
- northerners were required to assist in the arrest at the orders of federal agents
- monetary incentive for federal commissioners
- many northerners engaged in acts of civil disobedience
- boston was a hotbed of resistance
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harriet beecher stowe
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- wrote uncle tom’s cabin in 1852
- 2nd best selling book during that time
- fictional book
- popularized discussions about slavery in the north
- fuels abolitionist cause
- brought slavery into the everyday conversations and concerns of northerners
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harriet tubman
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- born enslaved in maryland
- moves to philadelphia and develops network with underground railroad people and abolitionists
- goes on at least 15 expeditions to the south and helps over 200 people escape
- serves as union spy, scout, nurse, cook
- leads 150 black union soldiers in the cohambee river raid
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women’s roles in the civil war
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- took up many roles the husband used to do
- more women became nurses
- maternal ideal taken to the battlefields
- some functioned as spies
- became teachers for formerly enslaved people
- played roles in the resistance
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reconstruction amendments
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- 13th: abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (except with conviction of crime); 1865
- 14th: birthright citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, equal protection; 1868
- 15th: vote regardless of race; 1870
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the declaration of sentiments
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- signed at seneca falls convention
- models the declaration of independence
- written by elizabeth cady stanton
- men and women sign
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seneca falls convention
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- july 19-20, 1848
- protest a form of government that women aren’t allowed to participate in
- at convention 100 attendees sign “declaration of sentiments”
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women’s suffrage
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- womens right to vote
- attributed to first wave feminism
- seneca falls convention
- diviersity of populations in american west that pushes women suffrage even more
- 1920 19th amendment allows women to vote
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sojourner truth
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- wrote “ain’t i a woman”
- speech about contrast between female ideals between black and white women
- points out hypocrisies in womens rights movement
- delivers speech at womens convention in acron ohio
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chinese exclusion
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- 1882
- federal law that prohibited all chinese laborers from immigrating to the us for a period of 10 years
- first major legislation to explicitly restrict immigration on nationality
- fueled by anti chinese sentiment and concerns about job competition
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angel island immigration station
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- established to enforce us immigration policies
- kept chinese, japanese, korean immigrants there for months on end to only send them back
- subjected to interrogations
- prisoners wrote poetry on the walls
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the page act
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- 1875
- first restrictive federal immigration law in the us, effectively prohibited entry of chinese women, marking the end of open borders
- “prohibited the recruitment to the us of unfree laborers and women for ‘immoral purposes’”
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lee puey you
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- detainee at angel island who carved poetry on the walls
- underwent harsh questionings and interrogations
- highlights the intersection between race, gender, and immigration law
14
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migrants to the “american west”
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- migration = moving from one place to another
- west was populated, diverse, not disconnected, developed through large-scale economic enterprise, overseen by federal governement
- who settled west first; native americans, spanish/ mexican colonists, american settlers
- huge disparity between men and women ( common practice of inter marriage)
- gold rush
- homestead act of 1862 150 acres after 5 years could apply for a deed
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laura ingalls wilder
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- wrote little house on the prairie
- perpetuated stereotypes about the american west
- provided viewpoint from settlers
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gibson girl
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- fictional image created in 1890s by charles dana gibson
- sexual, voluptuous
- fragile, respectable
- stylish, upper middle class, urban
- captures attention of men but not held in submission of men
- bike riding
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mass culture
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- mass production and mass consumption
- buying of standardized goods by a large number of customers
- standardization of goods that americans rely on
- development of department stores
- cars become normalized, and that includes road trips, motels, highways, diners
- film and radio start influencing mass amounts of people
- ## consolidation of a variety of goods
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the new woman
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- a gendered ideal
- early 1900’s late 1800’s
- particularly during WW1
- well educated
- autonomous economically, legally, professionally
- comfortable with singleness
- open about her sexuality
- athletic, dressed in less restrictive ways than victorian fashion had allowed
- upper class, white, middle class, urban
- contrast to cult of domesticity
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flappers & ellen welles page
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- bobbed hair, short skirts
- makeup, cigarettes
- carefree spirit
- urban living
- freedom of movement
- subculture after WWI
- not as socially acceptable as gibson girl
- wrote about her being a “semi-flapper” requires self-knowledge and analysis
- says the older generation is why flappers exist now and that they shouldn’t judge
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cosmetics and fashion in early 1900s
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- fashion is shaped by social, economic, and political circumstances
- magazines/ mass culture start setting up ideas and ideals of beauty
- makeup usage becomes normalized (used to be for prostitutes
- class, mass, and ethnic categories
- bloomers -> more athletic clothing
