Quiz 3

Expansion of public sphere during the revolution gave women political, newspaper and voting rightsMost accomplished American womanWrote plays, novels, poetry, public issues and journalsWasn't allowed to attend college but studied alongside her brotherShe demanded equality for women; specifically duties within the family

400,000 American settlers lived west of Appalachian mountains, outnumbering the remaining IndiansSome Indians resisted further white settlersMost militant were two Shawnee brothersTecumseh, a chief who refused the Treaty of GreenvilleTenskwata, a religious prophet calling for separation from whitesTecumseh met with William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana. He predicted war if whites continued coming and chiefs continuing to sell land to the govt

Early industrial revolution factories made cotton textiles with water-powered spinning and weaving machineryA group of merchants made a new factory town near Boston (the city of Lowell)A young unmarried woman from Yankee farm families dominated while tending spinning machinesCompetition in mills lead to a decline in working conditionsThis lead to protests for less working hoursthe Lowell Female Labor Reform Association exposed conditions

Westward migration to the wilderness (Indian lands) was important in America's mythologyReality on the frontier was not appealing for pioneer womenThe end of the war broke the power of Indian tribesMigration from eastern state from NY to MichiganHarriet L. Noble describes her families migration and ends by stating again the opportunities of westward mirgration

Emerson's neighbor in Concord, MassachusettsThoreau was persuaded that men were stuck in frustrating jobs by obsession of wealthBelieved Americans were too occupied with material things than the beauty of natureTo escape this fate, Thoreau went a cabin on Walden Pond in Concord in isolationWrote 'Walden' in his experiencesBelieved Americans should adopt life like the rhythms of nature

Early 19th century the Second Great Awakening cameReverend Charles Grandison Finney held month-long revival meetings in NY NYHis sermons spoke of hell and promised salvation to converts who abandoned their sinful waysRejected idea that man is a sinful creature with a determined fateSaid man must chose between a Christian/sinful lifeThe Second Great Awakening democratized American Christianity

Spain's Latin American colonies rose in rebellions and established independent nationsRebellions inspired sympathy in the USMonroe admin. became first govt to extend diplomatic recognition to new Latin American republicsPres James Monroe's message, written by John Quincy Adams outlined principles that the Western Hemisphere wouldn't open to European colonization's and US would remain uninvolved in wars in Europe

Many Indians arrived in Washington to meet Pres James MonroeSharitarish, chief of the Great Pawnees (a hunting tribe of the Great Plains)Sharitarish gave a speech about the lives of his people and the way they've changed since contacts been made with whitesSharitarish understood that the days of his peoples traditions were numbered

One early law of Andrew Jackson's admin was the Indian Removal Act to remove the Cherokee and four other tribes living in the Southeast.

(around 60,000)Cherokees adopted the US/white mans ways, but Jackson still saw them as savagesCherokee leaders petitioned congress with the guaranteeded treaties with the Fed Govt