Chapter 11 Responses

1. The Whigs support mostly came from the North while the Southern states were equally divided between the Whigs and the Democrats. The center of Market Revolution had the most loyal Whigs supporters. Factory owners, Yankee commercial farms and the new urban classes supported the democrats. Neighborhoods with Yeoman farmers with very few slaves and were affected very little by the Market Revolution. The Whigs support in the South mostly came form plantation counties.

2.The Whigs wanted to use the market Society and government to create a republic while the democrats wanted to limit the power of the government because they were suspicious of the Market society. The Whigs believed that the job of the government was to foster social harmony and economic development. Whig believed that the market Revolution allowed each individual to prosper regardless of their class and increased social mobility. Democrats believed that the government was dangerous to economic development and believed that the only safe thing to do was to limit the governments power. Th Whigs viewed the bank as an institution of inequality, controlled by greedy people. Whigs believed that internal improvements would farther progress the market society.

3. The Whigs believed in the concept of Domesticity while the Democrats believed in the patrarchy system. Under the patrarchy system the democrats believed that men were responsible for everything and they were the head of the household. The Whigs believed that Females had the most important roles in the family.

4. In the north, schools were established to teach young student to respect authority, property, hard work and social order. They believed that proper school would create a "homogeneous" culture. In the north schools were centralized at the a state level. Everything from school texts to the member of the Board of Education were decided by the state. Prisons also differed between the north and the south. The north favored institution of rehabilitation over isolation. Auburn prison were a compromise between the two. During that time period, the Market Revolution increased the number of insane people. This led to the creation of Asylums. The north favored a more gentle way of treating insane people. The South believed in the patriarchal system and opposed government involvement in social reforms. Like the north, the southern states established school but the southern school were controlled locally. So, the school did not enforce a common culture like the northern schools did. Southern states did not like the idea of rehabilitation in prisons because it would change the social rules established in the bible they believed that the cruel punishments sanctioned in the bible were more effective.

5. Drinking had always been a part of the society but the drinking consumption increased during the Market Revolution. This increase led to the Temperance movement. The Whigs made the temperance movement a political issue. The Whigs attempted to decrease the drunkenness by cancelling the licences of grocery stores and taverns. They also passed the 15 gallon law, which stated that taverns and stores could only sell 15 gallon of alcohol. the democrats were against the Whigs prohibition laws. They believed that the choice to drink should be left up to the individual and believed that Whigs involvement in private choice violated republican liberties. Temperance societies developed and one of the societies was the Washington Temperance Society. The Washingtonians didn't use politics instead they used persuasion ot convert drinkers. They also did not involve religion in their movement to convert drinkers. Washington Temperance movement was completely opposite form the Whigs Temperance movement. Whigs Temperance movement accompned evangelicalism and the meetinwere organized by clergymen. Washingtonian meeting wer fun, filled with singing, plays and experience speechs. The Whigs Temperance regualars convinced men to accept middle-class domesticity, while the Washingtonian speechs reminded men of the responsibilities of traditional fatherhood.

6. Neither Whigs or Democrats encourage slavery of free blacks, but it was the Democrats who openly showed their dislike towards blacks, Whigs and reformers. Democrats were the reason for the increase in anti-black violence. Democrat mobs were developing in blac neighborhoods. These mobs saw blacks, reformers and whigs as a threat. These mob members burned African Prebysterian Chruch, terrorized black families and killed many black americans.

7. The Reforms of the Whigs evangelicals emphazied the idea of domesticity, personal life and the character of individuals . Charles Finney was a famouse evagelical preacher. He preached aganist fashionable clthing, money, leisure, and luxuary. The evangelical preachers et limits to the amount of material comforta person could have. They also believed that excessive of anything was bad. They believed people should follow a strict diet and be disciplined.

8. Women were greatly involoved in the reform movement. In the Temperance movement they fought for their husbands. They also fought for their own civil rights.