Video Notes

Today in class, we watched a video that basically summarized the chapters we learned. It did cover things that Gottschalk did not talk about.

More Notes:

• Women were treated very unfairly.
• Women and African Americans struggled to be included and could not vote.

Temperance Movements

• Rum and whiskey were drunk in large amounts
• Many wives were beginning to be abused due to their husbands being too drunk
• These women then formed terperance groups with churches

Women during this period

• Could NOT vote >=(
• they had no voice in any form of government
• Western women were among the first to receive the right to vote
• Black women had the fewest rights of everyone
• The first time women came together to discuss their rights was held in Seneca Falls

Utopian Societies

• Robert Owen came to the US to set up a Untopia in Indiana.
• It did not last long; shakers built up Utopians in New Lebanon in to the Mid West
• Some of their rules included: no sex, money,drugs, and private property
• Thoreau was one of the transcendentalists and he though that individual could disobey unjust laws.

Tomorrow we have a test on chapters 9-12

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