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Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Video Notes

We watched a video in class. It covered almost everything Mr. G talked about in class. There were a few things the video did cover that Mr. G did not.

Extra Notes:
  • women felt as if they were the white slaves of the North
  • women, black, and poor men struggled to be included
  • industries destroyed nature
  • growing numbers of people in cities (urbanization)
  • in the cities there was a lot of poverty and children in the streets
  • one had to own property to vote which excluded women, blacks, and the poor

Demon Rum/Temperance Movement

  • rum and whiskey considered healthy
  • drank by everyone in large amounts
  • drunkenness connected to domestic violence
  • church leaders told members to stop drinking
  • many churches formed temperance groups which were joined by women who spoke out, although the men thought other wises

Votes for Women

  • could not vote
  • no voice in government
  • no right to property or kids
  • West-women worked beside men (among the first to win the right to vote)
  • South-men ruled and the women did not challenge the system
  • North-created the home (good morals and virtues)
  • Black women-defined in separate category and had the fewest rights of everyone
  • There was a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls; This was the first time women gathered to discus their rights

Mentally Ill/Orphanages/Prisons

  • The mentally ill were treated bad; lived in cages, closets,and pens and were naked in chains; the environment was smelly, damp and unclean
  • sanitation increase and education opportunities increased as well in all places
  • exercise replaced small rooms

Utopian Societies

  • people lived communally apart from society to perfect themselves where they shared everything
  • Robert Owen came to the US to set up a Utopia in Indiana but it didn't last very long
  • shakers built Utopians in New Lebanon into the Mid West; their rules were no sex. money, drugs, and private property
  • Transcendentalist were big on Utopians; Thoreau was one and believed in going to nature to fins ones soul and to connect with God and he believed in individualism; he thought the individual could disobey unjust laws

DON'T FORGET WE HAVE A TEST TOMORROW!!!!

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