2. Southern
Population-1820

3. Missouri Compromise, 1820

4. Growth of slavery

5. Growth of slavery

6. Characteristics of the
Antebellum South
1. Primarily agrarian.
2. Economic power shifted from the
“upper South” to the “lower South.”
3. “Cotton Is King!”
* 1860 5 mil. bales a yr.
(57% of total US exports).
4. Very slow development of industrialization.
5. Rudimentary financial system.
6. Inadequate transportation system.

7. Slaves Picking Cotton
on a Mississippi Plantation

8. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

9. Value of Cotton Exports
As % of All US Exports
How does this foreshadow the
Civil War?

11. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

12. Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

13. Slave Accoutrements
Slave Master
Brands
Slave muzzle
Slave
leg
irons
Slave
tag,
SC

14. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

16. Slave Resistance
2. Refusal to work hard.
3. Isolated acts of sabotage.
4. Escape via the Underground Railroad.

17. Quilt Patterns as Secret Messages
The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left,
alerted escapees to gather up tools and
prepare to flee; the Drunkard Path
design, on the right, warned escapees not
to follow a straight route.

18. Runaway Slave Ads

19. Slave Rebellions in Antebellum South:
Nat Turner, 1831
•Nat Turner
Rebellion
•lead by slave
preacher Nat
Turner, a group
of 50-60 slaves
systematically
revolted and
killed whites in
Virginia
•Fueled fears of
a slave uprising

20. The 2nd
Great Awakening

21. The Rise of Popular Religion
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
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22. Second Great Awakening
Revival Meeting

23. The Second Great Awakening
“Spiritual Reform From Within”
[Religious Revivalism]
Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal
of Equality
Temperance
Asylum &
Penal Reform
Education
Women’s
Rights
*Abolitionism*

24. Second Great Awakening
• As a result of the Second Great Awakening (a series
of revivals starting in the 1790s-early 1800s), the
dominant form of Christianity in America became
evangelical Protestantism
• Membership in the major Protestant churches—
Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist—
soared
• By 1840 an estimated half of the adult population was
connected to some church, with the Methodists emerging
as the largest denomination in both the North and the
South

26. •Anti-Alcohol movement
•American Temperance Society formed at Boston-----1826
• sign pledges, pamphlets, anti-alcohol tract
10 nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
•stressed temperance and individual will to resist

27. The Temperance
Movement
• During the next
decade
approximately 5000
local temperance
societies were
founded
• As the movement
gained momentum,
annual per capita
consumption of
alcohol dropped
sharply

28. The Drunkard’s Progress
From the first glass to the grave, 1846

29. Educational Reform
In 1800 Massachusetts
was the only state
requiring free public
schools supported by
community funds
Middle-class reformers called for tax-supported
education, arguing to business
leaders that the new economic order needed
educated workers
By 1860 every state offered free public
education to whites. *US had one of the
highest literacy rates*

30. Educational Reform
Under Horace Mann’s
leadership in the 1830s,
Massachusetts created a
state board of education
and adopted a minimum-length
school year.
“Father of
American Education”
Provided for training of teachers, and
expanded the curriculum to include
subjects such as history and geography

31. The Asylum
Movement
• Dorothea Dix, a Boston
schoolteacher, took the lead
in advocating state supported asylums
for the mentally ill
• She attracted much attention to the
movement by her report detailing the
horrors to which the mentally ill were
subjected
– being chained, kept in cages and closets,
and beaten with rods
• In response to her efforts, 28 states
maintained mental institutions by 1860

32. The Asylum Movement
(orphanages, jails, hospitals)
• Asylums isolated and
separated the criminal,
the insane, the ill, and
the dependent from
outside society
• “Rehabilitation”
– The goal of care in
asylums, which had
focused on confinement,
shifted to the reform of
personal character

33. Dorothea Dix Asylum - 1849

34. Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison,
publisher of the The
Liberator, first appeared in
1831 and sent shock waves
across the entire country
– He repudiated gradual
emancipation and embraced
immediate end to slavery at
once
– He advocated racial equality
and argued that slaveholders
should not be compensated for
freeing slaves.

35. The Liberator
Premiere issue  January 1, 1831

36. Abolitionism
• Free blacks, such as Frederick
Douglass, who had escaped from slavery
in Maryland, also joined the abolitionist
movement
• To abolitionists, slavery was a moral, not
an economic question
• But most of all, abolitionists denounced
slavery as contrary to Christian teaching
• 1845 --> The Narrative of the Life
Of Frederick Douglass
• 1847 --> “The North Star”

37. Sojourner Truth (1787-1883)
or Isabella Baumfree
1850 --> The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
a former slave who lived in Florence, MA in the
mid-1800′s, was a nationally known advocate for
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38. Harriet Tubman
(1820-1913)
• Helped over 300 slaves
to freedom.
• $40,000 bounty on her
head.
• Served as a Union spy
during the Civil War.
“Moses”
 “Conductor” ==== leader of the escape
 “Passengers” ==== escaping slaves
 “Tracks” ==== routes
 “Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting
the escaping slaves
 “Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep

39. Antebellum Women- early 1800s
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.

40. “Separate Spheres” Concept
Republican Motherhood evolved
into the “Cult of Domesticity”
• A woman’s “sphere” was in the home (it was a
refuge from the cruel world outside).
• Her role was to “civilize” her husband and
family.
• An 1830s MA minister:
The power of woman is her dependence. A woman
who gives up that dependence on man to become a
reformer yields the power God has given her for
her protection, and her character becomes
unnatural!

41. Cult of Domesticity = Slavery
The 2nd Great Awakening inspired women
to improve society.
Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké
 Southern Abolitionists who also
fought for women’s rights
Lucy Stone
 American Women’s
Suffrage Assoc.
 edited Woman’s Journal
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42. Women’s Rights Movement
When abolitionists divided over the issue
of female participation, women found it
easy to identify with the situation of the
slaves
1848: Feminist reform led to Seneca Falls
Convention
Significance: launched modern women’s
rights movement
Established the arguments and the
program for the women’s rights movement
for the remainder of the century

43. What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their
Own Way!
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44. Women’s Rights
Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1848 --> Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments

45. The first Woman’s rights
movement was in Seneca Falls,
New York in 1849……
•Educational and professional
opportunities
•Property rights
•Legal equality
•repeal of laws awarding the father
custody of the children in divorce.
•Suffrage rights

46. 1830’s to 1900’s
•Elizabeth Cady Stanton
•Susan B. Anthony
•Women’s rights reformers
•citizenship
•right to vote
•education
•Supported the abolition of
slavery
Picture/Anthony & Stanton

47. Possible DBQ/FR:
“Reform movements in the United States
sought to expand democratic ideals.”
Assess (evaluate, judge or appraise)
the validity (strength or soundness) of
this statement with specific reference to
the years 1825 to 1850.