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Great Famine of 1845-1850

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  • potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation and immigration to the US
  • causes→ rapid growth of poor ppl; policies that made most ppl dependent on a single crop (potatoes)
  • plant fungus
  • starvation
  • British policies that forced the Irish Catholics to labor for Protestant landowners
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Know Nothing Party

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  • Anti-immigrant group called the Native American Association was founded in 1837→ by 1845 became a political party known as the Know Nothing Party
  • due to the fact when members asked about the party, they were told to say “I know nothing.”
  • was formed from the wreckage of the Whig Party and some disaffected Northern democrats in 1854
  • anti catholic; anti immigrant
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Chinese immigration

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  • due to the lure of work and opportunity
  • Anti-Chinese sentiments in the 1850s
  • Chinese labored to build the nation’s first transcontinental railroad
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Irish immigration

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  • “Irish Potato Famine” 2 million came
  • Work in urban communities(NYC & Boston)
  • Growth of the Catholic Church in America
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Slavery

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  • outcries form northern abolitionists
  • justification of slavery in creative ways
  • increased criticism of northern industrial wage labor system
  • Rising importance of slavery led to better care of slaves due to their being a valuable investment: improved living conditions, dietary rations, and working hours
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“The Cruelty of Slavery”

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  • Family(nuclear or extended) was vital as a means for a slave’s emotional well-being
  • The role of the Underground Railroad and “conductors”
  • Notable runaways: Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman
  • fear of slave revolts
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Seneca Falls Convention

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  • the start of the Women’s Rights Movement in the US in 1848
  • Sarah Grimke; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Lucretia Mott
  • held in upstate NY
  • The convention generated more attention-mostly negative but some positive- than expected
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Women’s rights

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  • higher education
  • right of women to control property and right to obtain divorce
  • Black women were reluctant to join various integrated societies since white women tended to dominate them.
  • Abigail Adams; Sarah Grimke
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Committees of Vigilance

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  • Also known as vigilantes, groups of people who took on extra legal means to assert law and order
  • members of the groups delivered public whippings and lynched ppl they didn’t like, whether or not a crime had been committed.
  • Kangaroo courts (unauthorized and biased courts) and lynchings were all too common within and across all ethnic lines as traditional community relationships were destroyed by distance and greed
  • CA= El Monte Boys
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The Liberator

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-a newspaper dedicated to the antislavery cause launched by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, he said he would not back down to slavery

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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  • Founded in Boston in 1833, the society was dedicated to the abolition of slavery
    -William Lloyd Garrison
    He contrasted Northern free labor to Southern slavery
    -Oberlin abolitionism
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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

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  • The resolutions passed at the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 calling for full equality, including the right to vote, for women
  • This document is seen as the opening statement of the women’s rights movement in the U.S.