Notes Chap 14 Sec 4 Abolition and Woman's RIghts

Abolition and Women’s Rights

The spread of democracy leads to calls for freedom for slaves and more rights for women. 

Abolitionists Call for Ending Slavery

• Abolition—movement to end slavery, begins in the late 1700s 
• Abolitionists demand a law ending slavery in the South
• William Lloyd Garrison publishes an abolitionist newspaper 
• John Quincy Adams introduces anti-slavery amendment 

Eyewitnesses to Slavery

• Frederick Douglass speaks about his own experience of slavery 
• Publishes autobiography (1845), does lecture tour, buys his freedom 
• Sojourner Truth flees enslavement, lives with Quakers who free her 

The Underground Railroad

• Underground Railroad—aboveground escape routes from South to North 
• Runaway slaves travel on foot, also take wagons, boats, trains 
• Henry Brown escapes slavery by being packed in a box, shipped North
• Runaways usually travel by night, hide by day in places called stations 

Harriet Tubman

• People who lead runaways to freedom are called conductors
• Harriet Tubman is a famous conductor 
• Escapes slavery (1849), makes 19 journeys to free enslaved persons 

• Enemies offer reward for her capture, is never caught 

Notes Chap 11 Sec 2 Plantations and Slavery

Plantations and Slavery Spread Section 2
Cotton Boom

* Whitney's cotton gin (short for engine) made the cotton-cleaning far more efficient.
* A worker can now clean up 50 pounds of cotton per day.
* The cotton gin helped set the South on a different course of develop,enter from the North.

Southern life changed because of The cotton boom:

1. it triggered a mass move westward.
2. Planters grew more cotton rather than other goods.
3. More Native Americans groups were driven of Southern Land.

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* After 1808, it became illegal to import Africans for use in slavery. The trading of slaves in the country increased.


* Slaveholders with large plantations were the wealthiest and most powerful people in the South.


* Most white Southern farmers owned few or no slaves.

Roots Episode 2:


* Kunta has been there for about two months.
* Learns hoe to speak English by Fiddler when he speaks to him.
* Junta catches a cricket and tells it to tell his family that he's going to find a way to escape.
* Kunta broke his leg chains with a piece of broken metal he found. Fiddler lets him go when he realizes he broke off his chains.

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* Spiritual often contained coded messages.
* The cruelest part of slavery was the sale of family members were seperated from their mother.

Slave Rebellion

* The most famous rebellion was led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831.
* August 21 (Turner and 70 followers killed 53 white men, women and children)
* turner's men were mostly captured when their ammo went out and 16 were killed. Turner got caught and hung.
* Resulted in harsher slave codes.
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Notes on Chapter 7 Section 4

The Revolutionary War

• Costs of the War

• American

• 27,000 American casualties

• 1,400 Missing
• 8,200 were wounded

• British

• 10,000 British deaths

• Between 60,000 and 100,000 Loyalists left the United States, mostly to Canada

The Legacy of the War

• Treaty of Paris (2)- 1783
• US was recognized as an independent Nation
• L – Lexington and Concord – "Shot heard around the world!" First Battles
• B – Bunker Hill – a moral victory for the American troops (due to heavy British casualties)
• S – Saratoga – Turning point of the war
• Y – Yorktown – Britain surrendered to the US.

• Final battle: Yorktown
• Why did the Americans win?

• Better leadership
• Received foreign aid
• Knew the lay of the land better than the British
• Motivation

Slavery Dominates Politics 
The Republican Party Forms 
-Disagreement over slavery led to the freedom of the Republican Party and heightened sectional tensions 
-The creation of the Republican Party grew out of the problems caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
-Split between North and South 
The Case of Dred Scott
-His owner takes him to live in the North 
-Scott sued for his freedom 
-Dredscott v. Sandford 
-Missouri ---> Illinois ---> Wisconsin ---> Missouri 
-Black as inferior unfit to associate with the white race
-Blacks are not and can't be citizens 

Notes Page Word or Phrase of the week

The word or Phrase of the Week of March 12th is:

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

THE CRISIS DEPENDS 
The issue of slavery divides the counrty
-The north was against slavery and wanted to stop its spread 
-the south wanted to keep slavery as a way of life. also about $$$$
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-people decide of there should be slavery in their states
-popular sovereingnty- when people decide what to do
Fugitive Slave Act
-an 1850 law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
-It was illegal to help a slave escape 
-a person could be put in jail if they did
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 -author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
-story about the cruelty of slavery
-encouraged many people in the north to become abolitionists 
      

GROWING TENSION BETWEEN THE NORTH & SOUTH
North & south take different paths
-In the north, the growing of industry led to the rapid growth of cities
-Railroads & canals connect east and west helping to develop strong ties with eachother
The South Developed few wealthy, planters who controlled socety
-Planters relied on cotton exports for their profit 
-Southerns invested in slavery instead of industry 
-"Wilmot Proxiso", it outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico 
The Compromise of 1850
-To please the north 
-California would be a free state 
-The slave trade would abolished in washington 
-to please the south 
-Congress would not pass law regarding slavery territories won from Mexico
-Congress would pass fugitive slave act