Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass Summary. Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Three questions tonight and throughout the course: What is history Three questions tonight and throughout the course: What is history? What do we know about it, especially early American history? ? How do we know?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr 8 Questions Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass Summary. Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s @Second Great Awakening, 1820s – 1840s Liberal Protestantism, 1820’s – 1840’s A loving God, human behavior can change for the good, believers do God’s work on earth Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s @Second Great Awakening, 1820s – 1840s Second Great Awakening, 1820’s – 1840’s. More conservative: God punishes sinners, need to “get right” with God Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass Summary. Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Which nations have the highest imprisonment / jail rate today? Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Dorothea Dix Long before reaching the house, wild shouts, snatches of rude songs, . . . fell upon the car, from the occupant of a low building, rather remote from the principal building . . . the forlorn maniac, a young woman, exhibiting a condition of neglect and misery . . .She had been, I learnt, "a respectable person, industrious and worthy . . . She became a maniac for life. " Alas, what a change was here exhibited! She had passed from one degree of violence to another, in swift progress. There she stood, clinging to or beating upon the bars of her caged apartment . . . There she stood with naked arms and dishevelled hair . . . the air so extremely offensive, . . . that it was not possible to remain beyond a few moments without retreating for recovery to the outward air. Irritation of body, produced by utter filth and exposure, incited her to the horrid process of tearing off her skin by inches. Her face, neck, and person were thus disfigured to hideousness. She held up a fragment just rent off. To my exclamation of horror, the mistress [warden] replied: "Oh, we can't help it. Half the skin is off sometimes . . . it makes no difference what she eats, for she consumes her own fifth as readily as the food which is brought her.“

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Cult of domesticity: within the American home (the private sphere), a woman was in charge of the numerous tasks needed to create an ideal family life Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; . . . The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men - both natives and foreigner He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, 1851 Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, 1851 Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Reform, 1800’s -1850’s sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass Summary Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Sojourner truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilHJc9IZvE Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature Sojourner truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilHJc9IZvE

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Aint I a woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilHJc9IZvE Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass American Arts Summary. Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Antebellum Intellectualism, Reform and Literature sdfgsdrdetr Impetus for Reform Uplifting the Underclass American Arts Summary Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?