HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I. The Gettysburg AddressII. ConsumptionIII. Post-Civil War Consumption Outline of Current Lecture I. ConsequencesII. The Gettysburg AddressCurrent LectureI. Consequencesa. Dieti. Tin cans, refrigeration technology1. Safer and healthier, less prone to foodborne illness2. Added variety, first time eating different things3. Eat stuff that isn’t in season, all-year-round, from anywhereb. Women’s Labori. Before – Women and men engaged in home: income-productive labor1. Women became consumers instead of producersii. Some moved into paid wage-labor force1. Young women, of all classes2. Temporary bridge3. Immigrant women, poor women, former slaves and daughters iii. A lot of new jobs1. Service-oriented – waitresses, secretaries, clerks2. Moved in easily b/v enforced gender – ideologiesa. Clean, not physical, safe3. Radical changes to women’s livesa. Frequency of living outside the home4. Enforced the role of women in societyc. Origins of Thingsi. Industrial Revolution connected Americans were to people and places far away1. Create connections and make invisible all at once2. Shift in consciousness 1865-1900These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.ii. By end of 19th century, everything well-connected, but those connections are invisibleiii. Became less and less the more you became a consumer and less of a produceriv. Increasingly obscure1. More and more dependent on people and processes that you don’t understandII. The Gettysburg Addressa. November 1863b. Lincoln came to dedicate cemetery of fallen soldiersc. Edward Everett also spokei. Oratorii. Spoke before Lincoln, spoke for 2 hoursd. Lincoln spoke for 3 minutesi. People thought it rudee. New Birth of Freedom, redefined iti. Symbol of national purpose, pride, and idealsii. Reinterpreted the Declaration of Independencef. Declaration of Independence (DI) vs. the Constitution (C)i. Constitution legal documentii. DI has no legal standing, expression of ideals1. No different from Patrick Henry, Martin Luther King, Jr.iii. Lincoln transferred from “an” to “THE”iv. Civil War not fought about DI fought about Constitution1. Not over equality or liberty2. States rights3. Whether or not slavery could be extendedv. Lincoln made it about American ideals, not laws1. Shifting ideals of the war2. Implication that blacks and whites are equalvi. Gave the nation a new birth of freedomg. Breaking it downi. Four Score and 7 years ago . . . 1. DI, brought forth a new nation2. Declared independence3. Doesn’t say anything about creating a new nation4. Cooperation against enemy5. Treaty system, bound common entitiesa. Like EU6. US area. Collection of individual principalitiesb. Changes to being referred to as a united entity - the US isii. Constitution said nothing about liberty or equalityiii. Lincoln fused the DI and C1. The nation created by C was to live up to DI idealsh. Redefining Wari. Rearticulates warii. A test of principles US “founded” upon can endurei. Rededicated the Nationi. Living’s main purpose is to carry on for the things and cause they foughtii. Piling one fiction after anotherj. Open-ended Claimi. Struggle for equality can be taken up by anybody, anytime, anywhereii. What does equality mean?k. When do liberty and equality come into conflictl. Opened up the possibility for them to argue about it, opened up for discussionm. Living up to vision of taking carrying on ideals of founding
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