APUSH Early Republic: Women and Immigrants

Ancient order of Hibernians

An Irish mens group promoting Catholic faith, and Irish heritagte

Immegration

Coming to a country to live

Emmigration

Leaving a country

Know-Nothing Party

Anti-immegrant, (members claim to “know nothing” about their secret organization.)

Nativism

the policy of protecting the interests of native born people.

Naturalization

the legal process of becoming an (American) citizen.

NINA

“No Irish May Apply” posted outside jobs to keep Irish from getting jobs

Order of the Star Spangled Banner

a New York Nativist group (against immigrants) eventually turned into the Know nothing party.

Bloomerism

Dress reform movement of 1850s. Wearing shorter dresses with bloomers showing. representing physical freedom

Coverture

when a woman married she surrendered her legal identity, which became “covered” by that of her husband. She could not own property or sign contracts in her own name, control her wages if she worked, write a separate will, or, except in the rarest of circumstances, go to court seeking a divorce.

Lowell Female Labor reform Asscosciation

An association that lobbied for 10 hour work days.

Patriarchic

Male dominated

Turning out

a form of striking. Lowell workers did not work in call for a 10 hr work day rather than a 13 hr work day.

Irish Immigration

these people moved to America because of a famine in their homeland. did manual labor.

German Immigration

these people got land. They were religiously discriminated.

Elizibeth Cady Stanton

proposed the declaration of sentiments. sparks annual feminist conventions. like the Seneca falls convention

Elizebeth Blackwell

First woman to earn a medical degree.

Lucy Stone

Kept her last name when married. Wasn't really a feminist but started a trend.

Thomas Cole

American artist. Started the Hudson River school.

Benjamin West

American Artist. painted “william Penns treaty with the Indians.” done to convince others that the Penns were good so they could swindle the Indians out of land.

Philedelphia Bible Riots(1844)

Roits over what Bible should be used in church and in schools. Catholics v protistents

Seneca Falls Convention(1848)

Feminest convention held to propose the declaration of sentiments.

Cult of Domesctisity

The idea that women belong in the home. That women should embody purity,submissiveness and domesticity.

Domestic Feminism

claimed that women should have more autonomy in the home and family.

Lowell System

A system of textile factories that employed young women. Gave housing and schooling. Hard work. there were debates abt wether it was good or bad. some say that at least it was better than British workhouses, others say it was too bad for women.

Republican Motherhood

the idea that women played the role of educating future American citezens with “national morality”

Seperate Spheres

The idea that the home and outside world where seperate spheres. Men could freely move between spheres but women needed to stay in the home.

Nascent Nationalism

an increase in nationalism.

Declaration of Sentiments

A declaration written by Cady Stanton. A list of grievences against men. In protest of womens lack of rights.

Romanticism

Emphasising the inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of the individual.

Hudson River School

a group of artists fascinated by the glory of nature. Made art that mirrored the republic. Art based on land.

The Oxbow

1836 painting by Thomas Cole. is an allegory of the American landscape, contrasting the wild, untamed wilderness on the left with the cultivated, settled farmland on the right. It represents the transformation of the American continent through the concept of Manifest Destiny.

George Washington

1st us president. President in 1789 made a speech abt not having foreign affairs. Federalist.

UVA

Founded and designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. As an “academic Village” University of Virginia. challanging history with slavery.

Monticello

plantation in Virginia

Penns treaty with the Indians

done to convince others that the Penns were good so they could swindle the Indians out of land.

Hartford convention

series of meetings from December 15, 1814, to January 5, 1815, in Hartford, Connecticut. drafted constitutional amendments strengthening state controls over commerce and militias.