US History

Chapter 16: Reconstruction and Resistance, 1865-1877 Chapter Lead-in: Katie Rowe, former slave, informed of emancipation, June 4, 1865, near Washington, Arkansas ? plantation owner Dr. Isaac Jones Emancipation in June 1865 was era of transition for former slaves ? Rowe?s plantation was split into fields and they were assigned where to work, but charged large portion of crops, food, use of mules ? plantation was sold and Rowe with mother left to Little Rock to work Rowe marries Cherokee Billy Rowe and moved to OK End of war was time of uncharted possibilities and unresolved conflicts ? former slaves exulted, ex-Confederates were grim and many moved ? the union had wanted to reunite the nation so there were questions that are not normal as result of the war

Ch. 14: From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861, pg 401-429 Chapter Lead-In, pg 401 Edmund Ruffin ? southerner champion of succession, noted agriculturalist, hated Yankees and the north, committed suicide February 1861-led by South Carolina seven states than the lower south had already seceded April 1861 ? Ft Sumter, Charleston Bay South Carolina Mid 1850s ?formation of a purely northern republican party ? dedicated to stopping the extension of slavery October 1859 ?john brown ?abolitionist, lead people to seize a Federal arsenal and harpers ferry, Virginia in hopes of igniting a slave insurrection ? failure THE COMPROMISE OF 1850, pg 402 Mexican ? American war victory ended with 15 each free and slave states however the acquired territory threatened to upset that balance

Chapter 12: The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860, pg 341-371 CHAPTER LEAD-IN, pg 341 Nat Turner (literate preacher and prophet) uprising: August 22, 1831, South Hampton County, Virginia Led six other slaves to slaughter Joseph Travis, his wife, an infant and two other whites in the house with axes Moved into the countryside in gathered more followers killing whites as they went White militia & vigilantes responded by overpowering Turner?s Group and other blacks not involved, those not kill the sight were arrested and hanged Before execution Turner stated he was not personally mistreated by owners but his religious conviction that all slavery was evil in an offense to god Gabriel Prosser ?one other slave that had plotted rebellion but was caught before happening

Chapter 10: Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840 pg 281-311 CHAPTER LEAD-IN Dorothea Dix ? 19th century New England reformer, daughter to a Methodist preacher and born into poverty in Maine she was forced to do family work as a child As a teenager ? moved to Boston what her grandmother and educated herself and embraced Unitarian religion, taught school, wrote devotional manuals and children?s stories March 1841 ? began her career as an advocate for humanitarian treatment of the mentally ill when she was teaching a religious class for women prisoners at the house of corrections in east Cambridge, Massachusetts and saw insane inmates shivering in unheated jail cells. She petitioned the courts to have stoves brought in to provide heat and won.

Chapter Eight: America at War and Peace, 1801-1824, pg 223-249 Chapter Lead-in, pg 223 After winning the 1800 election, Jefferson tried to ease tensions in America, putting the French Revolution behind them and recognized they agreed that all Americans were either federalists or republicans. But foreign affairs were to continue as Tripoli (one of 4 islamic states in North Africa) declared war on US. US merchant ships in Mediterranean Sea were being seized by ?Barbary pirates?. To stop this, in 1796 the US paid Algiers nearly $1 million.