Please sit in your assigned seats and quietly follow
the directions below:
Answer the following question in your bell ringer
notebook:
Which of the following was added to the
Constitution after its ratification for the purpose of
protecting individual rights?
a. the Articles of Confederation
b. writs of assistance
c. the Bill of Rights
d. the Great Compromise
1. Define “antebellum period”.
2. When we talk about the antebellum period, we’re talking
about the time period before which war?
3. Why did social and culture differences emerge in each
region?
4. Increased regional pride led to _______________________.
5. What worsened the tensions between the North and South
regions?
6. Name two ways the culture in the North was affected by the
people who settled and lived there.
7. Why was education established in New England?
8. Why was education expanded in the antebellum period in
the North?
9. What type of political issues did Northerners support?
10. How did the privileged class in the South develop?
11. True or False: Most southerners lived on family farms and
did NOT own slaves during the antebellum period.
12. Describe education in the South.
13. Why were immigrants not attracted to the
Southern region?
14. What type of political issues did
Southerners support?
15. Which part of the West reflected the
cultural values of New England?
16. Which part of the West reflected the
cultural values of the Southern region?
17. How did Manifest Destiny affect the West?
18. What type of political issues did the West
support?
USHC Standard 2: The
student will demonstrate
an understanding of how
economic developments
and the westward
movement impacted
regional differences and
democracy in the early
nineteenth century.
USHC 2.4: Compare the
social and cultural
characteristics of the
North, the South, and
the West during the
antebellum period,
including the lives of
African Americans and
social reform movements
such as abolition and
women’s rights.
What was life like for African Americans in the
North?
• Although the Northern states had begun to
emancipate their slaves right after the
Declaration of Independence, some Northern
states continued to have slaves in the 1830s
• Slavery was prohibited in the old Northwest by
the Northwest Ordinance
• Free blacks lived in the North, but could not
exercise the same rights as whites, except to
legally marry
• In the North, African Americans were
purposefully disenfranchised by law at the same
time the universal manhood suffrage was
established
• Disenfranchise: to deprive (a person) of the
right to vote or other rights of citizenship
• Suffrage: the right to vote
• African Americans were often the last hired
and the first fired and did the jobs that were
least attractive
• Segregation was practiced throughout the
North
What was life like for African Americans in the
South?
• Most African Americans living in the South
were slaves
• The conditions of slaves’ lives depended in
large part on where they lived and the kindness
of their masters
• The freedmen that lived in the South lived
mostly in cities where they could find work as
artisans
• The job opportunities for freedmen in the
South were better than in the North because
many of them had skills that were in high
demand
• Freedmen in the South were not granted civil
or political rights, and were not even considered
American citizens
REFORM: to form again
Why did reform movements begin to develop
in the United States during the antebellum
period?
The religious revival movement [the Great
Awakening] of the early 1800s was national in
scope and contributed to the development of
reform movements that further divided the
nation
ABOLITION
The Abolitionist Movement:
• Abolition: the legal prohibition and ending of
slavery, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
• The abolitionist movement first developed
among Quakers who believed that everyone,
even slaves, had an inner light
• Abolitionists included African Americans such
as Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass and Harriet
Tubman, and whites such as William Lloyd
Garrison, the Grimke sisters, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and John Brown who engaged in a
variety of different protest activities
• Abolitionists
published
newspapers and
organized antislavery conventions,
wrote books and
helped slaves escape
the through the
Underground
Railroad
• Abolitionists also
led rebellions
Weaknesses of the Abolitionist Movement:
• The activities of abolitionists led to the
strengthening of the resolve of slave owners to
justify their culture, which further divided the
nation
• Southerners argued that slavery was a
“positive good” because slaves were better off
than industrial workers in the North
• Most northerners were NOT abolitionists
• Some abolitionists did not believe that freed
slaves should have equal rights
• The abolitionist movement split over the issue
of whether or not to engage in the political
process
• They also had internal disagreements about
whether or not to recognize the rights of women
to speak in public against slavery
• Abolition was not effective until the
controversy over western expansion led to
political intervention (Abraham Lincoln and the
Republican Party)
Women’s Rights
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Lucretia Mott
What about women’s rights?
• The women’s rights movement was active in
the North and tied to the abolitionist movement
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott met
and were determined to advocate for women’s
rights when they were denied the right to
participate at an abolitionist convention
• Stanton and Mott organized the Seneca Falls
(New York) Convention in 1848, which called for
women’s rights
• Women were protesting second class
citizenship for many reasons:
1. Limited access to education
2. Limited rights to own and control property
3. Limited rights to obtain a divorce
• The women’s rights movement was not
successful in the antebellum period in securing
additional rights for women