Antebellum America

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Antebellum America
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John Quincy Adams 1767-1848
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Henry Clay 1797-1852
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Daniel Webster 1782-1852
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• Andrew Jackson 1767-1845

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• Rachel Jackson 1767-1828

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• Jacksons Inauguration 1829

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• Peggy ONeale John Eaton

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• John C. Calhoun 1782-1850

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Theodore Frelinghuysen 1787-1862
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• Trail of Tears

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• Martin Van Buren 1782-1862

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• William Henry Harrison 1773-1841

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• John Tyler -- 1790-1862

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The Peculiar Institution
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• Slave Music African Origins

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• Slave Instruments

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• Slave Instruments

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• 19th-Century Banjo and Guitar

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• One form of Resistance

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Nat Turner 1800-1831
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Nat Turners Rebellion, August 1831
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Antebellum Reform
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• Charles Grandison Finney 1792-1875

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• Joseph Smith -- 1805-1844

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• William Miller 1782-1849

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Proudhon

• Pierre Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865

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Fourier

• Charles Fourier, 1772-1837

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New Harmony

• New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1828

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Oneida

• The Oneida Community, 1848-1878

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Transcendentalism
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

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• Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

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• Unjust laws exist shall we be content to obey
  them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and
  obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we
  transgress them at once?

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• I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put
  into a jail once on this account, for one night
  and, as I stood considering the walls of solid
  stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood
  and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating
  which strained the light, I could not help being
  struck with the foolishness of that institution
  which treated me as if I were mere flesh and
  blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that
  it should have concluded at length that this was
  the best use it could put me to, and had never
  thought to avail itself of my services in some
  way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone
  between me and my townsmen, there was a still
  more difficult one to climb or break through
  before they could get to be as free as I was. I
  did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls
  seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.They
  plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved
  like persons who are underbred. In every threat
  and in every compliment there was a blunder for
  they thought that my chief desire was to stand
  the other side of that stone wall. I could not
  but smile to see how industriously they locked
  the door on my meditations, which followed them
  out again without let or hindrance, and they were
  really all that was dangerous. As they could not
  reach me, they had resolved to punish my body
  just as boys, if they cannot come at some person
  against whom they have a spite, will abuse his
  dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that
  it was timid as a lone woman with her silver
  spoons, and that it did not know its friends from
  its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for
  it, and pitied it.

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment, that
  if one advances confidently in the direction of
  his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which
  he has imagined, he will meet with a success
  unexpected in common hours.

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Abolitionism
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Walkers Appeal, 1830
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William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879
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Frederick Douglass1818-1895
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Wendell Phillips 1811-1884
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Harriet Tubman 1821-1913
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Feminism

• Feminism is the radical notion that women are
  people

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• Margaret Fuller -- 1810-1850

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Angelina Sarah Grimké
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Sojourner Truth 1797-1883
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Lucretia Mott 1793-1880Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815-1902Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
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Other Reforms
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• Lowell Mill Weavers

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• Dorothea Dix 1802-1887

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• Sylvester Graham 1794-1851)

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• Horace Mann, 1796-1859

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Manifest Destiny
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• The Alamo, March 6, 1836

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• James Knox Polk 1795-1849

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• Fifty-four Forty or Fight!

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• Siege of Veracruz

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• General Winfield Scott

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• Zachary Taylor 1784-1850

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The Impending Crisis
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• Debating the Compromise of 1850

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• Millard Fillmore 1800-1874

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• Franklin Pierce 1804-1869

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896

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• John Brown 1800-1859

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• Bleeding Kansas - 1856

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• Brooks vs. Sumner July 1856

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• James Buchanan 1791-1868

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• Roger B. Taney Dred Scott

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• Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858

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• Harpers Ferry, 1859

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• John Brown the Harbinger of the Civil War