HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Seneca Falls Convention

• School: Chico State University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 130
• Professor: Tom Neary

Document Summary

Three interrelated social reform developments: abolition, temperance, women"s rights, Prominent abolitionists: william lloyd garrison the liberator. Temperance movement alcoholism in 19th c. first temperance organizations. Start of the women"s movement seneca falls convention -1848 (lucretia mott, eliz. Annexation of texas central issue in the presidential election of 1844. Dark horse candidate, james k. polk, an expansionist. Kansas- nebraska act stephen a. douglas bleeding kansas. Collapse of the whigs & rise of the republicans. North and south close to the breaking point. Uncle tom"s cabin (1852) harriet beecher stowe. Emergence of lincoln his election in 1860.