WGSS 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Emancipation Proclamation

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1124
• Professor: Penny Brandt

Document Summary

Privilege: a right or advantage gained by birth, social position, effort, or concession. Civil rights: refers to the positive acts governments take to protect against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government or individuals. Missouri compromise (1820: allowed the admission of missouri s slave state with the admission of maine as a free state, balance of power was preserved but the conflict raged on. The abolitionist movement: the american anti-slavery society was founded by william lloyd. Garrison in 1833: northern interest in emancipation pushed by abolitionists eroded relations between north and south. Heightened tensions (1850s: 1852 harriet beecher stowe published uncle toms cabin anti- slavery novel by ct native, scott vs. sanford (1857) the supreme court rules that slaves were not citizens by the united states. Why a civil war: conflict over slavery, north"s increasing strength in congress & industry, southern conservative culture vs. northern progressive ideas.