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The Civil War and Reconstruction

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Regional Characteristics

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Compare the social and cultural characteristics of the North, the South, and the West during the antebellum period, including the lives of African Americans and social reform movements such as abolition and women’s rights.

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Social and cultural differences

emerged first during the colonial period based largely on the cultures of the people who settled there. – These differences were increased by the economic specialties that resulted from differences in geography of the regions. – Finally, increased regional pride led to self interested sectionalism. – The development of the West exacerbated the tensions between the North and the South leading eventually to secession and war.

The North and South developed along different lines NORTH Diverse economy based on industry and agriculture Large cities undergoing rapid urbanization Massive immigration strengthened the economy SOUTH Economy based on agriculture Mainly rural with a few cities Few immigrants Favored federal spending on internal improvements and wanted high tariffs The Northeast was economically linked with the Midwest Economy based on free labor Opposed federal spending on internal improvements and wanted no tariffs Sought to expand by creating more slave states Economy based on slave labor

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• The

North

was affected by the culture of the Puritans who settled New England, the Quakers of Pennsylvania and by the diversity of the populations of commercial centers such as New York City. – In New England, towns and cities arose around the Congregational church and as commercial centers.

– Education was established early by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay to enable the faithful to read the Bible.

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– Immigrants were attracted to the jobs in growing industries and contributed to the cultural diversity and growing population of the region. – There were relatively few slaves in the North and so they did not significantly impact the culture of the region. – Northerners supported political issues that promoted their regional interests such as high tariffs and a national bank.

Northern Free States-1860

Yankee ingenuity: resourcefulness and experimentation led to whole new industries being created. A Yankee is someone who lives in the northern states, especially New England.

4,357 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 41 1800 1860 There was dramatic increase in the number of patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office. From 41 in 1800 to 4,357 in 1860

Growth in Railroad mileage 1830 to 1860 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 100 1830 3500 1840 31000 1860 RR miles

Railroad construction by region

25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 North South 1850 1861

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• The culture of the

South

was strongly influenced by its colonial beginnings and its economy. – Large plantations produced a privileged class that dominated the government, society and culture. – However, contrary to popular myth, the majority of Southerners in the antebellum period lived on family farms and did not own slaves.

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– The South developed fewer large towns and cities because navigable rivers brought ships close to the fields. – The wealthy educated their children privately, did not provide public education for poor whites and outlawed teaching slaves to read or write. – The region did not attract as many immigrants because there were few jobs in industry.

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– Because of the large slave population and significant numbers of free blacks, African Americans contributed substantially to culture and society in the South.

– Southerners supported political issues that promoted their regional interests such as low tariffs, and the spread of slavery to the territories.

Southern slave states-1860

% of slave ownership in the South-1860 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1% 50 or more slaves 3% 20-49 slaves 20% 75% 1-19 slaves No slaves % of whites

Southern Society Large slave plantation owners Mid-size slave plantation owners Slaves % of Population Attributes Less than 1% of white families 3% of white families Small slave holders Free blacks 20% of white families Non slave owing whites 75% of white families 6% of blacks By 1860 1/3 rd of South’s population 50 or more slaves, over 1,000 acres in property 20-49 slaves, over 100 acres, most powerful group in the South 1-19 slaves, mostly farmers and a smaller urban middle class Yeomen farmers and tenant farmers. Some urban workers Legal and social restrictions limited their opportunities Majority worked on plantations

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• The

West

developed as settlers moved into the region and carried their cultural values with them. – Settlers in the old Northwest reflected the values of New England while the southern states influenced the culture of states such as Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.

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– Manifest Destiny strengthened the strong individualism that naturally arose among those settling the West. – Westerners supported political issues that promoted their interests such as cheap land, internal improvements and uncontrolled banking.

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African Americans

lived in all regions of the country. – Although the

Northern

states had begun to emancipate their slaves right after the Declaration of Independence, some northern states continued to have slaves into the 1830s. – Slavery was prohibited in the old Northwest by the Northwest Ordinance.

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– Although free blacks lived in the North, they could not exercise the same rights as whites. – In the North, African Americans were purposefully disenfranchised by law at the same time that universal manhood suffrage was established. – They were often the last hired and the first fired and did the jobs that were least attractive. – De facto segregation was practiced throughout the North.

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– Most African Americans living in the

South

were slaves. The conditions of their lives depended in large part on where they lived and the benevolence of their masters. – Those freedmen who lived in the South lived mostly in the cities where they could find work as artisans. – Although their job opportunities were better than blacks in the North because many of them had skills that were in high demand, they too were not granted civil or political rights.

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• The religious revival movement [the Great Awakening] of the early 1800s was national in scope and contributed to the development of

reform movements

that further divided the nation.

Women’s rights Legal code and prison reform Rights for the mentally ill Reform Movements Anti-slavery Temperance Educational reform Religious Reform groups Utopian communities

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abolitionist movement

first developed among Quakers who believed that everyone, even slaves, had an inner light.

• Abolitionists included African-Americans such as Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman and whites such as William Lloyd Garrison, the Grimke sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown who engaged in a variety of protest activities.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison John Brown Nat Turner

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– They published newspapers and organized anti-slavery conventions, wrote books and helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. – And they led rebellions. Such activities led to a strengthening of the resolve of slave owners to justify their culture and further divided the nation.

New York Times picture of Harriet Tubman with runaway slaves

Abolition Newspapers Garrison’s

Liberator

Lovejoy’s Alton

Observer

Douglas’s The

North Star

Anti-Slavery Almanacs

Pictures from Anti-Slavery Almanacs

Almanacs were propaganda publications designed to inflame the passions and show the slave holders as inhuman criminals abusing the defenseless and helpless slaves.

"If you put a chain around

the neck of a slave, the other fastens itself around your

own." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abolitionists put on numerous meetings and “anti-slavery fairs”

Books, games and literature were aimed at both adults and children “ Oh how I love the old flag” REBECCA A Slave Girl from New Orleans

Getting the abolition message to children

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• Southerners argued that slavery was a ‘positive good’ because slaves were better off than industrial workers in the North. – It is important to note that most northerners were not abolitionists and that even some abolitionists did not believe that freed slaves should have equal rights.

Slave Owners Depict a Happy View of Slave Life

Before 1830 - The South defended slavery as a necessary evil. Slaves were needed to maintain cotton, a crop which both the North and South’s prosperity depended. After 1830 - Under attack by abolitionists Southern slavery apologists presented slavery as a “positive good”. Slaves were portrayed as happy, content and well cared for. Slaves in the South were reported to be better off then northern factory workers, wage slaves, who were at the mercy of cruel and selfish money grubbing Yankee capitalists.

Southern theologians used the Bible to defend slavery. They defended slavery through the use of scriptures and considered radical abolitionists infidels. The most thorough defense of the South was provided by Robert Lewis Dabney, in his book, "A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her of the South". His arguments included the following… · Abraham was a slaveholder.

· When Abraham came into covenant with God he was commanded not to free his slaves but to circumcise them.

· The Laws of Moses did not abolish slavery but rather regulated it.

· Christ commended slaveholders and received them as believers.

· Paul in his letters admonished Christian slaves to obey their masters.

· Paul exhorted Christian slaves to be content in their lot and not to seek to change their situation.

A challenge to the Northern abolitionist view of the institution of slavery, favorably contrasting the living conditions of American slaves (top) with the lot of the industrial poor in England (below). The first scene is impossibly naive: Southern slaves dance and play as four gentlemen--two Northerners and two Southerners--observe. First Northerner: "Is it possible that we of the North have been so deceived by false Reports? Why did we not visit the South before we caused this trouble between the North and South, and so much hard feelings amongst our friends at home?" The second scene takes place outside a British textile factory. At left a well-dressed gentleman encounters a ragged, stooped figure, and asks, "Why my Dear Friend, how is it that you look so old? you know we were playmates when boys." The stooped figure responds, "Ah! Farmer we operatives are "fast men," and generally die of old age at Forty." Behind them and to the right an emaciated mother laments over her ragged children, "Oh Dear! what wretched Slaves, this Factory Life makes me & my children." Nearby stand a fat cleric, holding a book of "Tythes," and an equally fat official holding "Taxes." In the right foreground two barefoot youths converse. The first says,"I say Bill, I am going to run away from the Factory, and go to the Coal Mines where they have to work only 14 hours a Day instead of 17 as you do here."

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• The abolitionist movement split over the issue of whether or not to engage in the political process and whether or not to recognize the rights of women to speak in public against slavery. • Abolition was not effective until the controversy over western expansion led to political confrontation.

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• The women’s rights movement was active in the North and tied to the abolitionist movement. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, organizers of the Seneca Falls (New York) Convention in 1848 which called for

women’s rights

, met and determined to advocate for women’s rights when they were denied the right to participate at an abolitionist convention.

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• However there were many other issues that caused women to protest their second class citizenship including their limited access to education and the rights to own and control property and to obtain a divorce.

Women mobilized for rights The Second Great Awakening inspired women to do things they had never done before. Many women, for the first time, became active in activities outside their home and family. Women became active in temperance and abolition as well as other humanitarian causes. Women were considered inferior to men. They were not allowed to attend college, vote, or control their own property. Legally, women were their husband’s property.

Many women were angry at their second class status and began organizing.

The primary focus of the antebellum women's rights movement was obtaining civil rights for women. Women wanted equal property rights, divorce reform, custody of their children, and the right to vote.

Frederick Douglass Seneca Falls Convention New York 1848: the beginning of the women’s movement in the U.S.

Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their purpose was to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. They wanted to publicize the second class status of women and begin the fight to remedy it. Over 300 attended. A series of declarations was passed. The issue of female suffrage met serious opposition until a speech by Frederick Douglass convinced the delegates to pass a declaration demanding it.

Only one Convention attendee, 19 year old Charlotte Woodward lived to see women win the vote in 1920.

In 1851 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became partners in the suffrage movement. Although their efforts directly led to passage of the 19 th amendment, neither lived to see it.

The women's rights movement grew out of the anti slavery movement. In 1851 at a convention in Akron, Ohio, former slave, abolitionist, and women’s rights advocate Sojourner Truth gave a stirring speech titled "Ain't I a Woman?". Quotes from her speech

"Well, children, where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter, I think between the Negroes of the South and the women of the North - all talking about rights the white men will be in a fix pretty soon… "That little man in black( a minister) there! He says women can't have as much rights as men. ‘Cause Christ wasn't a woman. "Where did your Christ come from?", From God and a Woman! Man had nothing to do with him!“ "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again. And now that they are asking to do it, the men better let them."

Mott Lucy Stone Lucretia Mott, E. Cady Stanton, Mary A. Livermore, Lydia Maria Child, Susan B. Anthony, Grace Greenwood, Anna E. Dickinson

Higher education for women Higher education for women did not exist before 1821.

In 1821, Emma Hart Willard founded the Troy Female Seminary in New York, the first endowed school for girls.

Oberlin College became the first coeducational college in the United States in 1833. In 1837, Mount Holyoke College, the first established for women opened.

Troy Oberlin Mount Holyoke

American Temperance Society Began in 1826 to eliminate the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Estimated that the average American in the early 19 th century consumed over four gallons of liquor a year. In 2000, the average was just over two gallons a year.

Made up mostly of women who saw “demon rum” as the number one enemy.

In the years before the Civil War (antebellum) the main focus was to get men to sign pledges promising not to drink alcoholic beverages. Later anti-alcohol organizations such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) worked to make alcoholic beverages illegal.

Educational Reform Free public education was rare before the 1820s.

A movement for “common schools” began in Massachusetts during the period of 1830-1850 to Americanize new immigrants. Horace Mann was an important leader in the movement which advocated compulsory education.

Common schools were designed to have a similar educational experience for all children regardless of class or locale.

Common schools were viewed as a vehicle to preserve rural values in new urban society.

Normal schools were established to train teachers. Mann

Compromise and Disunion

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Explain how the political events and issues that divided the nation led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the successes and failures of the abolitionist movement, the conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party and its win in 1860, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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• Although the

abolitionist movement

kept the issue of slavery at the forefront of national conversation abolitionists did not significantly impact the actions of the national government. – The numerous petitions that abolitionists sent to Congress fell victim to the ‘gag rule.’ – Abolitionist candidates running under the banner of the Liberty Party did not win office.

Congress enforces a ‘gag rule” to stifle anti-slavery discussion In May of 1836 the House passed a resolution which automatically "tabled," or postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery without hearing them. Stricter versions of this gag rule passed in succeeding Congresses. After years of protest in 1844, the House rescinded the gag rule on a motion made by John Quincy Adams.

The print relates to John Quincy Adams's opposition to passage of the resolution in 1838, or (more likely) to his continued frustration in attempting to force the slavery issue through presentation of northern constituents' petitions in 1839. In December 1839, a new "gag rule" was passed by the House forbidding debate, reading, printing of, or even reference to any petition on the subject of abolition.

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• However, abolitionists did impact the sentiments of the people in both the North and the South. – The publication of Garrison’s

The Liberator

was banned in the South and shows the fear that such publications struck in that region.

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• Most northerners were not abolitionists. – Indeed, abolitionists were not popular in the North.

Philadelphia’s newly built Pennsylvania Hall was the scene of an abolitionist convention in May of 1838. A large mob protesting against abolitionism burned the building to the ground,. The city was known for anti-black and anti-abolitionist violence. Much of this violence came from Philadelphia workers who feared that they would have to compete for jobs with freed slaves.

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• Abolitionists helped some slaves to escape to the North on the Underground Railroad. – However, the numbers of escaped slaves were relatively small, especially in the deep South because of distance to free land.

Map of the Underground Railroad

It wasn’t a railroad but a network of safe houses and sympathetic citizens who would aid runaway slaves.

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The Civil War and Reconstruction

Regional Characteristics

Northern Free States-1860

Railroad construction by region

Compromise and Disunion

Map of the Underground Railroad

Directory