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:
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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