UNITED STATES HISTORY I
LECTURE OUTLINE SEVEN
- THE WHIGS VERSUS ANDREW JACKSON
- The Whig Censure of 1834
- AJ's defense--his "Protest" of the Censure of 1834
- the "Protest" as another manifestation of presidential power
- THE JACKSONIANS' ACTIONS AFTER THE BANK WAR
- continuation of hard-money agrarianism
- continuation of the fear of commercial "wheeling and dealing"
- removal of the Bank deposits
- Deposit Act of 1836
- Specie Circular of 1836
- SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW OF THE JACKSONIAN ADMINISTRATION
- "Looking to Yesterday"
- new concept of the presidency
- ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY AND THE SLAVEHOLDING SOUTH
- Historians and American Slavery
- U.B. Phillips
- Herbert Aptheker
- Kenneth Stampp
- Stanley Elkins and the "Sambo" personality type
- John Blassingame--his methodology and his attack upon the Elkins thesis
- Selected statistics about slavery
- SLAVE CULTURE--AUTONOMY, SELF-ESTEEM AND A SENSE OF CONTROL
- African culture and the slaves
- African-American culture and the slaves
- recreational activities
- importance of the conjurer
- importance of folk songs and folk tales
- Religion and the slaves
- religion, like culture, provided a sphere apart from the masters
- Negro spirituals
- Religion and the slaves' experiences
- Family and the slaves
- the family as a survival mechanism
- impediments to the slave family
- THE SLAVES' DAILY LIFE (AN OVERVIEW)
- slaves and the work routine
- discipline and slave resistance
- slaves' diets
- ANALYSIS OF THE SLAVES' PERSONALITY TYPES
- "Sambo" personality type
- "Nat" personality type
- roots of the "Sambo" personality type
- the planters, not the slaves, determined the "Sambo" personality type
- the relationship between the "Sambo" and "Nat" personality types
- THE SLAVE CODES
- characteristics of the slave codes
- slavery as a legal and social control system
- WAS SLAVERY PROFITABLE?
- "TO WORK IN GOD'S VINEYARD"--AMERICAN ANTEBELLUM REFORM
- Factors and events that contributed to the origins and development of reform
- broad ferment in society and culture
- personal benefits for those involved in reform
- Evangelical Protestantism
- DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTISM
- millenialism
- perfectionism and an "ultraist" mentality
- disinterested benevolence and Charles G. Finney's positive Protestantism
- other branches of Protestantism and their impact upon reform
- William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism
- Transcendentalism
- THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT--PRIOR TO 1831
- early antislavery and gradualism
- private manumission
- American Colonization Society
- motives of the colonizationists
- Were the colonizationists racist?
- THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT--AFTER 1831 (ABOLITIONISM)
- beliefs and opinions of abolitionists
- discussion of the term "immediatism"
- factors that "made" an abolitionist