UNIT 5 PLAN: Antebellum US (1789-1860)
TIME FRAME: (2.5weeks- 3 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date for Binder,
Terms, AP PARTS documents DECEMBER 19th (Period 3) December 20th (Period 4)
PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE
STRICTLY REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and pessimistic
views of human nature and society. In what ways did development in transportation bring about
economic and social change in the US in the period 1820-1860?
Themes:
American identity, culture, economic transformations, slavery and its legacies, reform, religion
Required Readings:
Chapters 9 (p. 224-227), 11, 12, 13 (320-328)
A History of Women in America: “On the Loom: The First Factory Woman” (Just like Zinn)
Due December 5th for ALL classes
A History of Women in America: “Black Bondage/White Pedestal” (Just like Zinn)
Due December 13th for ALL classes
Primary Sources:
ALL MATERIALS AND APPARTS WORKSHEETS SHOULD BE PRINTED OFF BY
DECEMBER 2nd. NO EXCEPTIONS!
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Beecher Sisters
Douglass
Fitzhugh
Hammond
Lincoln
Revival
Seneca Falls
Thoreau
Special Activities:
FRQs:
1) American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and
pessimistic views of human nature and society" Assess the validity of this statement in
reference to reform movements in THREE of the following areas.
 Education
 Temperance
 Women's rights
 Utopian experiments
 Penal institutions
2) In what ways did the early nineteenth-century reform movements for abolition
and women's rights illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of democracy in the early
American republic?
3) In what ways did developments in transportation bring about economic and
social change in the United States in the period 1820 to 1860?
Content:
Beginnings of Second Great Awakening
Republican Motherhood and education for women
The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
Immigration and nativist reaction
Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South
Evangelical Protestant revivalism
Social reforms
deals of domesticity
Transcendentalism and utopian communities
American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions
Describe how social, political, economic and technical changes affect the institutions of family,
education, government, economy and religion
Explain the relationship between immigrants and the rise of intolerance toward various ethnic
groups
1) Market Revolution
2) Irish Immigration
3) Irish Potato Famine
TERMS TO KNOW
4) Tammany Hall
5) German immigration
6) Kindergarten
7) Beer
8) Nativism
9) “Know-Nothing” Party
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Industrial Revolution
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Samuel Slater
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spinning jenny
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Eli Whitney
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cotton gin
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interchangeable parts
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sewing machine, Elias Howe & Isaac Singer
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telegraph, Samuel F.B. Morse
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Waltham, Massachusetts
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Boston Associates
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“Lowell girls”
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general incorporation laws
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limited liability
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Charles River Bridge case
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steel plow, John Deere
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mechanical mower reaper, Cyrus McCormick
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Transportation Revolution
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Turnpikes
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National Road
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Conestoga
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Pony Express
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steamboat, Robert Fulton
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Erie Canal
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Railroad regional specialization
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Deism
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Unitarianism
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Second Great Awakening
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camp meetings
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“circuit riders”
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Peter Cartwright
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Charles Grandison Finney
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“Burnt-Over District”
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Adventists
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Mormons
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Joseph Smith
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Brigham Young
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Perfectionism
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Abolitionism
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temperance movement
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Maine Law of 1851, Neal Dow
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Republican Motherhood
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Lucretia Mott
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Susan B. Anthony
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Angelina Grimké
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Sarah Grimké
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Lucy Stone
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Amelia Bloomer
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Margaret Fuller
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Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
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Dorothea Dix
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Horace Mann
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Noah Webster
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William H. McGuffey wilderness utopias
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New Harmony, Indiana
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Brook Farm, Massachusetts
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Oneida colony
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Shakers
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Amana Community
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cult of domesticity
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Godey’s Ladiesbook
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Catherine Beecher
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Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America
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Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in U.S.
History”
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“King Cotton”
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cotton gin, Eli Whitney
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Border South
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Middle South
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Lower South
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“cotton belt” or “black belt”
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“Peculiar Institution”
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Stono Rebellion, 1739
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Gabriel Prosser Revolt
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Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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“Mountain Whites”
Abolitionism
American Colonization Society Liberia
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Theodore Weld, American Slavery as It Is
Wendell Phillips
Angelina and Sara Grimké
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Elijah Lovejoy
Martin Delaney
Frederick Douglass
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
George Fitzhugh
“northern wage slaves”
Gag Resolution