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* '''abolition/ abolitionism / emancipation''' = movement to end slavery | * '''abolition/ abolitionism / emancipation''' = movement to end slavery | ||
** the 13th amendment "abolished" slavery (1865) | ** the 13th amendment "abolished" slavery (1865) | ||
* '''civil rights''' | * '''civil rights, Jim Crow, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement''' | ||
** the 13th, 14th & 15th amendments, which followed the Civil War, abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship for freed slaves, and guaranteed the right to vote by former male slaves, respectively | |||
** those protections were only as good as the laws were implemented | |||
*** "Reconstruction" = the period from 1865-1877, during which Union armies occupied the South and enforced "reconstruction" era protections of the rights of the former slaves | |||
*** Reconstruction failed to fully implement those laws, and "segregation" | |||
* '''imperialism''' | * '''imperialism''' | ||
* '''"Manifest destiny"''' = movement for U.S. westward expansion across the continent (term coined in 1845) | * '''"Manifest destiny"''' = movement for U.S. westward expansion across the continent (term coined in 1845) | ||
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* '''suffrage''' = "the vote" or the right to vote | * '''suffrage''' = "the vote" or the right to vote | ||
** the 15th amendment guaranteed the right to vote for male former slaves (1869) | ** the 15th amendment guaranteed the right to vote for male former slaves (1869) | ||
* '''temperance''' or '''temperance movement = | ** women who championed or protested for the vote between the Civil War and 1919 were known as "'''Suffragettes'''" | ||
* '''temperance''' or '''temperance movement''' = anti-alcohol / prohibition of alcohol movements | |||
* '''women's suffrage''' = right to vote for women | * '''women's suffrage''' = right to vote for women | ||
** in U.S. the 19th Amendment guaranteed the right of women to vote (1919) | |||
* women's rights = | |||
**the 19th Amendment guaranteed <u>political equality</u> for women, but not equality in economics, education, etc. | |||
** so passages on women's rights after 1919 will focus on those aspects of equality, not suffrage | |||
* '''"republican motherhood"''' | * '''"republican motherhood"''' | ||
* '''states rights''' | * '''states rights''' | ||
** '''suffragette''' = a woman who advocated, often in public protest, for women's suffrage | ** '''suffragette''' = a woman who advocated, often in public protest, for women's suffrage | ||
* '''tariff''' | * '''tariff''' | ||
== Historical actors to know == | |||
* '''Susan B. Anthony''' | |||
** women's suffrage | |||
* William Jennings Bryan | |||
* '''Edmund Burke''', 1729-1797 | |||
** Conservative British politician and critic of the French Revolution | |||
*** Burke argued against radicalism and destruction of institutions | |||
** supported U.S. colonies against British suppression of colonial dissent | |||
*** articulated theory of "salutary neglect" which argued that direct British control of the American colonies was undesirable, whereas when British policies towards the colonies were hands-off, it constituted "salutary" or healthy, neglect | |||
* '''Frederick Douglas''' | |||
** former slave, abolitionist | |||
* '''Stephen Douglas''' | |||
** Illinois Democratic Senator who championed ""Popular Sovereignty" as a solution to the pre-Civil War problem of the spread of slavery across the continent and for entry of new states | |||
** Douglas famously debated Lincoln during the Illinois Senate race of 1858 | |||
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* '''Abraham Lincoln''' | |||
* '''John Stuart Mill''' | |||
** British politician, philosopher; supported women's suffrage; proponent of utilitarianism ( | |||
* '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' | |||
** women's suffrage | |||
* '''Henry David Thoreau''', 1817-1862 | |||
** mid-19th century essayist, abolitionist; championed civil rights and dissent in "Civil Disobedience" | |||
* '''Alexis de Tocqueville''', 1805-1859 | |||
** French aristocrat who authored a study of the nature of American democracy, "Democracy in America" | |||
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== Themes & events timelines == | == Themes & events timelines == | ||