Lesson D8
Aim-Was abolitionism a success or a failure during the 1830s?
Questions and Notes
How did the southerners react to the Nat Turner slave revolt in 1831?
How did each of the following contribute to the abolition movement?
1. William Lloyd Garrison
founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society
2. Theodore Weld
Garrison, Theodore Weld, and sixty other religious abolitionists, black and white, established the
American Anti-Slavery Society.
3. The Grimke Sisters
The Grimkés had left their father’s plantation in South Carolina, converted to Quakerism, and taken up
the abolitionist cause in Philadelphia.
What were three strategies of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
1.To spread their message, the abolitionists turned to mass communication.
2.The abolitionists’ second tactic was to aid fugitive slaves
3.A political campaign was the final element of the abolitionists’ program.
What percent of northern whites were abolitionist?
10 percent
How were abolitionist attacked ?
In the North:
White workers in northern towns laid waste to taverns and brothels where blacks and whites mixed, and
they vandalized “respectable” African American churches, temperance halls, and orphanages.
In the South:
Racial solidarity was especially strong in the South, where whites banned abolitionists.
, vigilantes whipped a northern college student for distributing abolitionist pamphlets; in Charleston, a
mob attacked the post office and destroyed sacks of abolitionist mail.
In congress
Why didn't abolitionist succeed in the 1830s?
Assailed by racists from the outside, evangelical abolitionists fought among themselves over gender
issues.
III. Summary
If abolition failed, why don't we have slavery today?
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Lesson D9
Aim-Why did a women’s rights movement develop in the mid 19th century?
Questions and Notes
Note: I rarely tell you to memorize things, but the 1st part of the section is a great summary of women
from 1775-1840
What did republican motherhood mean?
"Republican Motherhood" is an 18th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the
emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution.
What did “separate spheres” mean?
The patriarchal ideology of separate spheres, based primarily on notions of biologically determined
gender roles and/or patriarchal religious doctrine, claims that women should avoid the public sphere – the
domain of politics, paid work, commerce and law.
What were the main reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s?
Female Moral Reform Society
What were the main points of the Grimke sisters? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
What was Dorothea Dix’s contribution to American life?
Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the
treatment of the mentally ill. She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that
challenged the idea that people with mental disturbances could not be cured or helped.
What were the results of the Seneca Falls convention of 1848? (KNOW THIS WELL)
Out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,which demanded
equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.
Who were:
Susan B Anthony
American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage
movement.
Elizabeth Candy Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement.
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