Susan B. Anthony - Feminism

      Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15th in 1820. Her parents were Daniel Anthony, a Quaker and abolitionist, and Lucy Read, a Baptist. Susan was the second oldest child in her family and one of her siblings was Daniel Read Anthony. Today she is commemorated for having been a crucially important civil rights leader and feminist. During the nineteenth century Woman's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony fought for approximately 50 years only to achieve her ambitious goal: to introduce Woman's suffrage to the United States. in 1826, at age six, Susan's family moved to New York. At age sixteen, Susan began to attend a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia named Debora Moulson's Female Seminary. She strongly disliked her school but luckily for her she didn't stay there for long due to her family's financial issues. Before 1849, when Susan agreed to run her family's farm, she was a teacher, but soon came to dislike her occupation. in 1848, she was a supporter of the Temperance movement, a movement designed to restrain the use of alcohol, she even joined the Daughters of Temperance that year. During a temperance rally in Albany, Susan encountered an obstacle that would influence her later life. She was not allowed to speak at the rally and later initiated the Woman's New York State Temperance Society. In 1850 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Senaca Falls, which is when she became significantly interested in women's rights. As she fought for and supported the education, labor and temperance movements, Susan B. Anthony made sure to always incorporate the women's rights.

Woman's Rights to the Suffrage

http://www.nationalcenter.org/AnthonySuffrage.html

A: Susan B. Anthony
P: 1873
P: In 1872, Susan B. Anthony was tried for voting in the presidential election. She was fined $100 for her action.
A: Susan's intended audience was woman which she was hoping to encourage to speak out for themselves. However, she spoke to the United States as a whole, making sure to address them as "friends and fellow citizens".
R: The reason for which she delivered her speech was to address the issue that women were not allowed to vote in the united States.
T: The main idea of her speech was that if the preamble of the Federal Constitution stated, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, esrablish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America", then she had just as much of a right to vote as any white man did.
S: Susan B. Anthony's speech was of great importance because it made her audience realize that women were never denied the right to vote in the consitution and should therefore be allowed to do so. this meant that she had be tried and fined for no reason. It also made them question whether women were considered human at all.

Horace Mann - Education

      Horace Mann was born on May 4th in 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts. His parents were Thomas Mannn and Rebecca Stanley Mann. His brother was Stephen man and Louise Mann was his sister. When he was twenty year old, Horace Mann attended Brown University and graduated in only three years. He was even valedictorian for his class. He was elected to the legislature in 1827. Horace was interested greatly in education, charities and laws regarding the elimination of intemperance. He was chosen as he secretary of the board of education of Massachusetts in 1837. He held conventions for teachers, delivered copious lectures, and even physically inspected each school in the state himself. Horace Mann was a man determined to provide his people with school with proper equipment, longer school years and higher paying wages for teachers. in 1843 he went to visit schools in Europe and when he returned he decided to establish the Prussian education system in Massachussetts. This education system was a mandatory schooling system.

The Common School Journal

http://goo.gl/Q6qcYG

A: Horace Mann

P: Massachusetts, 1838

P: Horace Man was elected as the secretary of the board of education of Massachusetts in 1837. He introduced an established the normal school system in Massachusetts. He held conventions for teachers, delivered copious lectures, and even physically inspected each school in the state himself. 

A: Horace's targeted audience was Massachusetts

R: Man wanted to underscore the issues with public schools and their education system. 

T: He developed six main principles that delineated the issues with public education.

     1. citizens can't maintain ignorance and freedom simultaneously

     2. education should be paid for, controlled, and maintained by the public 

     3. education should be provided in schools that have students from differing backrounds
     4. education must be multicultural
     5. education must be taught using faith of a free society
     6. education must be provided by well trained teachers

S: Horace Mann's Common School Journal was of great significance because not only did it highlight the issues with the public education system but it also resulted in his ranking as one of the best American educationalists. 

Mexican American War Characters

Mexican American War Characters

US Army Officer

                                                                         Description:

    I thought the war was going to be a lot of fun.

  How could the Mexicans put up much of a fight when 

they were up against the powerful United States? But

   soon enough the reality of war set in. As we moved

up the Rio Grande, it was incredibly hot, hotter than

I’d ever experienced. The water was bad and many of

my men got diarrhea, dysentery, and other diseases.

It was awful. We lost a thousand men just from sickness.

I watched some men do horrible things. As I

wrote in my diary: “We reached Burrita about 5 p.m.,

many of the Louisiana volunteers were there, a lawless

drunken rabble. They had driven away the inhabitants,

taken possession of their houses, and were

emulating [copying] each other in making beasts of

themselves.” They raped many women there.

PRIMARY SOURCE LINK:

http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ga_jcf.htm

           PRIMARY SOURCE DESCRIPTION:

John Charles Freemont was born on January 31st, 1831 in Georgia. At a young age he attended Charlestown Colllege and later became an explorer traveler, and map maker. He also became and was a teacher in 1833. in 1837 he surveyed the Cherokee lands in Georgia and by 1838 he was commissioned as the US Topographical Corps. He satisfied his yearn to explore when he did so at the Rockies. He explored western of the United States in 1842 as well as land not yet part of the US. 

     

Dona Francesca Vallejo

Description:

   I live in California, a part of Mexico. I am a wealthy woman, a wealthy Mexican woman.

With my husband, I own 175,000 acres. I have numerous servants. I have two for my own personal

service. Four or five servants grind corn for tortillas, for we entertain so many guests that three servants could not feed them all. About six or seven work in the kitchen. Five or six are continually occupied       washing the clothes of my 16 children and the rest are employed in the house; and finally, nearly a dozen attend to the sewing and spinning. This is where my children were born. I have always been very friendly to visitorswho come from the United States, and some even say that I am famous for the hospitality I show my guests. And now there is a war. The United States will try to take California away from Mexico, but they have no right, and we won’t let them.

PRIMARY SOURCE LINK:

http://www.sfmuseum.net/bio/vallejo.html

PRIMARY SOURCE DESCRIPTION:

The man married to Dona Francescca Vallejo was General Mariano G. Vallego (1808-1890). He was born in Monterrey, died in Sonoma, and married in San Diego on March of 1832. He was a military cadet for the Monterrey company in 1824 and in 1838 he was assigned as comandante-general of California. In 1831 he was assigned to be comandante-general yet again after being assigned to the San Fransisco company in 1830. Even though Mariano was from Spain, he served as an officer of Mexico and a California military commander. 

The Chesapeake Leopard Incident

The Chesapeake Leopard Incident

       From 1775-1783 the Americans fought in unison for their independence from Britain. The United States was born when it's independence was officially granted by the Treaty of Paris, which was signed on September 3rd, 1783. However, in 1807, twenty-four years later, The Chesapeake Leopard Incident took place. In short: the HMS Leopard ( a British warship ), fired 3 broadsides at the USS Chesapeake ( a US warship ) because they claimed that four of their men had ran off to the American ship. Consequently, eighteen Americans were wounded and three were killed. 

      The Chesapeake definitely made the right choice in having been determined o fight because, first of all, the British had absolutely no business right off the coast of Virginia. If the Americans had been free of British rule for nearly twenty-five years, with what intentions would Britain send a WARship to the United States? They should not have given up four sailors because, even if it had been to avoid any fight with Britain, it had not been the Americans' fault that BRITISH sailors decided to abandon the BRISTISH warship. It would have made a great difference had the incident occurred farther our at sea because then it would not be easily implied that the British had malicious intentions; however, having it occurred only 10 miles off the coast of Virginia, implies that the British only wanted one thing: war. This incident could and could not have been a significant cause for war. Yes, it could have been a reasonable cause for war simply because Britain implied that they wanted war by bringing a warship so close to the US. However, by going to war with Britain yet again, the US would be putting it's newly-gained independence at stake. If the Chesapeake ship had been more militarily prepare then maybe they should have been the first to fire broadsides an hopefully prevent the 18 casualties and 3 deaths. If the US had been more economically stable and ha decided to declare war with Britain then money would be less of an issue and they would not have been left with a debt ( or as great of a debt ). 

      If the British had been impressing or kidnapping American sailors up and down the eastern sea board since the end of the revolution then that would be a justifiable enough cause for the US to have declared war. If Britain was convinced to fight the US for FOUR sailors, then it would be reasonable for the US to fight for copious sailors. It would make a huge difference if the British had still not abandoned the forts they occupied on the Mississippi Rover since the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763! Having gained independence from the British 25 years earlier, it was far beyond the time in which the British should have abandoned the US. The British DID NOT have the right to demand the return of their sailors if they had abandoned ships and joined the American navy, this is true for 3 reasons. 1) the British were not in an area to have any rights (since the Treaty of Paris defined borders and the United State's independance. 2) life aboard British ships was so miserable that it became known as a floating hell. 3) if the sailors CHOSE to run off to an American ship, then it had been their own decision. If the sailors decided to return to the British ships then it should be their own decision whether or not they wanted to actually go back with Britain. Since it was up to the fugitives as to what they did on any ship they were aboard, then the American navy captain should not be held responsible for harboring fugitives. Overall, this incident was not worth going to war for. However, it was worth some fighting simply because the British had absolutely no reason to send a warship to the US.