APUSH Antebellum Era Society

Meaning of "The Era of Common Man"

-states adopted white male suffrage policies

-before, states had property requirements, meaning only rich white men could own houses

-states dropped the property requirements, meaning now the "common men" could own too

-Jackson was also known as the "common man", which is how he won lots of support

Slavery in the South

-it was called the "positive good", saying it helped everyone and boosted America's economy

-most southerners didn't own slaves but supported slavery because they were scared of Black peoples' anger/power once they were freed

Second Great Awakening effects

-temperance

-increased free will

-new religious denominations

Waltham-Lowell system

-first wage-earning women

-an effect of the market revolution

-caused sectionalism

-the South didn't like how much power it gave women, but also justified it as similar to slavery

Stereotypes

Black stereotypes:

-Nat= savage

-Tom= submissive, lazy

-Sambo= dependent on White people

-Jezebel= seductive

-Mammy= obese, loves her White family

Immigrants:

-Irish and Germans were seen as greedy foreigners who would largely affect polls and drink a lot

Paternalism🔴

P: slave owners claimed this was a caring connection between them and their slaves

Transcendentalism

-values intuition, individuality and nature

-communal societies like Brook Farm

-affected arts/literature

-caused Second Great Awakening

significance of founding fathers

They held the ideals of America, people bought portraits of them

Views on slavery during the antebellum period

-Gabriel and Nat Turner's rebellions scared people

-North wanted emancipation and legal and equality

-American Colonization Society wanted to send Black people to Liberia

-Garrison's "The Liberator" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were controversial antislavery pieces

significance of Weems biography

nationalism, loving founding fathers, gave people hope

Second Great Awakening causes

-emphasis on democracy and individuality

-religions reacting to each other

-market revolution made people greedy

-people moved around and looked for new places of worship

Public reforms in antebellum era

Temperance= American Temperance Society led a movement on no drinking

Asylum/Prison reforms= led by Dorothea Dix

Public education reforms= led by Horace Mann

-Abolition

-Suffragettes

Effects of War of 1812🔴

-US gained foreign respect

-Increase in slavery

-land expansion

-created military/political leadership

-no Federalists (Hartford Convention)

-strengthened Britain-native forces

-Increased nationalism

-showed Hamilton was right about manufacturing

-showed Constitution worked

Gabriel's Rebellion and Nat Turner's Revolt

G: was a slave's attempt to overthrow the Virginian gov.

NT: was a large slave revolt in which 55 white people were killed. Its effect was a frightened south

"Peculiar institution" vs. "Positive good"

previously slavery was referred to as the "peculiar institution" but was altered by the South to "positive good" because slavery helped the American economy

Suffragette Movement

Seneca Falls convention (started by Elizabeth Stanton) created list of grievances toward men (similar to Declaration of Independence) called the Declaration of Sentiments

Women's roles

-Cult of Domesticity

-Informal power by influencing husbands

-gained power by joining reform movements

Frederick Douglass

former slave turned writer, most famous Black abolitionist

Grimke sisters🔴

born in South Carolina, came north and became abolitionists

Susan B. Anthony

another leader of the Suffragettes

Charles Finney🔴

"father of the Second Great Awakening", urged people to abandon sin and lead a good life

Denmark Vesey🔴

led a failed slave revolt

Effects of market/transportation revolution

-new middle class

-more privacy in the homes

-more gender roles

-factory towns

-working class grew

-Cult of Domesticity

-industrialization

-stratification

Rush-Bagot and Adams-Onis Treaties

Rush-Bagot set the Canadian border with Britain

Adams-Onis set the southern border with Spain

effect: showed that European nations respected US enough to negotiate