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Women in the Economy

First time many worked outside the home Focused on younger, single women

Women in the Economy Low wages, dangerous conditions, long hours lived in dorms, social lives regulated and monitored

Irish and German Immigration

Immigration Prior to the Civil War Reasons for increased immigration: Political unrest in Europe (“1848 Revolutions”) Famines and poverty Opportunities in America Need for Labor i.e. railroads factories Free/Cheap Land

German Immigration

Conditions Faced by the Irish Slums in Eastern cities: “ghettos” Job discrimination Poverty Nativism Anti-Catholic bias

Anti-immigration Reactions Nativism – bias against foreign immigration to the US The American (“Know- Nothing”) Party Millard Fillmore

The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party]  Nativists.  Anti- Catholics.  Anti- immigrants.  Nativists.  Anti- Catholics.  Anti- immigrants.  1849  Secret Order of the Star- Spangled Banner created in NYC.

Western Expansion

Reasons: Cheap land New opportunities Hazards: Indians Weather Death/illness

Western Trails

The Oregon Trail – Albert Bierstadt, 1869

The Doomed Donner Party April, 1846 – April, 1847

The Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening Spiritual awakening Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality Temperance Asylum & Penal Reform Education Women’s Rights Abolitionism

In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America, I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country… Religion was the foremost of the political institutions of the United States. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1832 The Rise of Popular Religion R1-1

“The Benevolent Empire”:

The “Burned-Over” District in Upstate New York The “Burned-Over” District in Upstate New York

Second Great Awakening Revival Meeting

The ranges of tents, the fires, reflecting light…; the candles and lamps illuminating the encampment; hundreds moving to and fro…;the preaching, praying, singing, and shouting,… like the sound of many waters, was enough to swallow up all the powers of contemplation. Charles G. Finney (1792 – 1895) “soul-shaking” conversion R1-2

The Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) Joseph Smith ( )  1823  Golden Plates  1830  Book of Mormon  1844  Murdered in Carthage, IL

Violence Against Mormons

The Mormon “Trek”

The Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)  Creates major western trading center in Salt Lake City, Utah Brigham Young ( )

Transcendentalism eLiberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning.” e“Transcend” the limits of intellect and allow the emotions, the SOUL, to create an original relationship with the Universe.

Transcendentalist Thinking  Man must acknowledge a body of moral truths that were intuitive and must TRANSCEND more sensational proof: 1.The infinite benevolence of God. 2.The infinite benevolence of nature. 3.The divinity of man.  They instinctively rejected all secular authority and the authority of organized churches and the Scriptures, of law, or of conventions

Transcendentalist Intellectuals/Writers Concord, MA Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nature (1832) Walden (1854) Civil Disobedience (1849) (1841 Self- Reliance ) “The American Scholar” (1837) R3-1/3/4/5

Utopian Communities

The Oneida Community New York, 1848 John Humphrey Noyes ( )  Humans were no longer obliged to follow the moral rules of the past. all residents married to each other. carefully regulated “free love.” (yes, it means what you think it means!)

Robert Owen ( ) Utopian Socialist “Village of Cooperation”

Original Plans for New Harmony, IN New Harmony in 1832

New Harmony, Indiana

Temperance Movement Frances Willard The Beecher Family American Temperance Society “Demon Rum”! R1-6

Educational Reform Religious Training  Secular Education  MA  always on the forefront of public educational reform * 1 st state to establish tax support for local public schools.  By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites. * US had one of the highest literacy rates.

The McGuffey Eclectic Readers Used religious parables to teach “American values.” Teach middle class morality and respect for order. Teach “3 Rs” + “Protestant ethic” (frugality, hard work, sobriety) R3-8

“Father of American Education” Horace Mann ( ) children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials children should be “molded” into a state of perfection discouraged corporal punishment established state teacher- training programs R3-6

Early 19c Women 1.Unable to vote. 2.Legal status of a minor. 3.Single  could own her own property. 4.Married  no control over her property or her children. 5.Could not initiate divorce. 6.Couldn’t make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband’s permission.

Women’s Rights 1840  split in the abolitionist movement over women’s role in it. Motto:” What would you like on your sandwich?” Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848  Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments R2-6/7

What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way! R2-8

Women Educators e Troy, NY Female Seminary e curriculum: math, physics, history, geography. e train female teachers Emma Willard ( ) Mary Lyons ( ) e 1837  she established Mt. Holyoke [So. Hadley, MA] as the first college for women, and sandwich makers.