Antebellum Era Task #3
Primary Source 1:
Analysis: African American gathering in Negro Methodist Meeting in Philadelphia.
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● Religious and Social
● African American Baptists Church
● Second Great Awakening
● African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
● Peculiar Institution
● Nat Turner’s Rebellion
● The significance is that religion offered a sense of hope for free blacks and that they begin to show a
type of resistance.
Primary Source 2:
The women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may
no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their
ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Analysis: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is for women’s rights.
● Social
● Seneca Falls Convention
● Declaration of Sentiments
● Charles Finney
● Second Great Awakening---->.temperance movement
● Dorthea Dix
● The significance is the increase women rights and how are starting to gather to discuss important
matters. This is due to the Second Great Awakening because they were able to have bigger voice.
Primary Source 3:
Analysis:
● Social/Political
● Says it is “impracticable” for South Carolina to nullify a federal law successfully.
● S.C. does not intend to secede.
● John C. Calhoun
● Henry Clay
● Andrew Jackson
● Tariff of Abominations
● nullification
● The significance of the event is how Andrew JAckson was able to forcefully make South Carolina follow
the law. It also shows how the U.S. is beginning to split.
Primary Source 4:
Analysis:
● Social/religious
● Oregon Trail
● Mormons
● Joseph Smith
● Brigham Young
● Manifest Destiny
● Mormons searching for religious freedom
● Second Great Awakening---->Charles Finney
● This is significant because it one of the first times other than the Gold Rush where people start to move
west not only having fulfilled Manifest Destiny but also actually living in the land.
Primary Source 5:
Assenting to the "self-evident truth" maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men
are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights -- among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness," I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our
slave population.
William Lloyd Garrison “The Liberator”
Analysis:
● Social
● William Lloyd Garrison
● The Liberator
● Slavery
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Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
Declaration of Independence---> all men are created equal
inalienable rights
The significance is that many people especially in the North start to see slavery as something immoral
because slaves are being treated awful even though the D.O.I. said “all men are created equal”.
Primary Source 6:
Analysis:
● Social/ Political
● Trail Of Tears
● Andrew Jackson
● Cherokee
● Seminole Indians
● Indian Removal Act of 1830
● Worcestor v. Georgia
● This is significant because this is a first time where the executive branch overpowers the Judicial
branch. Because of that Andrew Jackson was seen as a tyrant.
Primary Source 7:
The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any
European powers
James Monroe “The Monroe Doctrine”
Analysis:
● Political/ Foreign Affairs
● James Monroe
● The Monroe Doctrine
● Colonization
● John Quincy Adams
● Foreign Affairs---->George Washington’s Farewell Address
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The significance is that it is the first time that the U.S. officially states to foreign countries that they can
no longer colonize in the western hemisphere making the U.S. the “leader” of the western hemisphere.
Primary Source 8:
But in each of these movements emerged a good result, a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods, and
an assertion of the sufficiency of the private man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self Reliance”
Analysis:
● Social/Ideologies
● Ralph Waldo Emerson--->Self Reliance
● transcendentalism
● Henry David Thoreau----> other authors
● This is significant because it is Emerson was the prophet of transcendentalism, a literary philosophical
movement, and he avoided involvement for organized movements because he believed that it stopped
people from their own individuality.
Primary Source 9:
I would have her as pure as the snow on the mountAs true as the smile that to infancy’s givenAs pure as the wave of the crystalline fount,
Yet as warm in the heart as the sunlight of heaven.
“Female Charms” Cult of True Womanhood 1846
Analysis: Show the masculine view of true woman.
● Social
● Cult of Domesticity
● middle class women
● North----> Factories
● “Separate Spheres”
● Lowell System
● Catherine E. Beecher
● women rights
● The significance is that it created an image that women at home are the ones who control the
household and that that role is very important in a home especially for children.
Primary Source 10:
Analysis: Slavery increased in the South as slavery decreased in the North.
● Social
● King Cotton
● Cotton gin/Eli Whitney
● Manifest Destiny/Expansion/Louisiana Purchase
● Missouri Compromise
● North against slavery
● Abolitionist/William Lloyd Garrison/Frederick Douglass
● Slaves escaping to north
● South for slavery
● This is significant because you are able to see the division that is being formed eventually leading to
sectionalism.