The Antebellum Period occurred from 1820-1860. It was a period in history where abolition was using and separation between abolitionists and supporters of slavery became apparent. While the abolitionist movement is one of the well known social reforms to have occurred‚ there was also the Horace Mann and the Public School Movement which fought for the equality in education. There was also the Temperance Movement which called for the prohibition of alcohol. The Abolitionist Movement was formed during
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Territorial Expansion Between 1800 and 1850‚ the United States was a nation extending in all possible ways. America experienced a amount change in national unity. Territorial expansion destroyed national unity. Between 1819 and 1824 is when the unified nation of America began to divide and depart from one another. Triggered by the concept of Manifest Destiny‚ people believed that America should extend from “sea to shining sea”. It was the issues of the expansion of slavery into the new territories
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The westward expansion‚ which started in the 1820s‚ was one of the biggest steps forward our country has ever taken. It nearly tripled the size of our country and increased the population by monstrous amounts. It also improved the economy greatly though agricultural means‚ prompted political leaders to sent people to explore (Lewis and Clark)‚ started a civil war‚ motivated huge amounts of people to move west‚ and almost destroyed our country. The expansion was magnified greatly by the
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The main revolutionary event of 1789 Answer the both sub- questions: (a) Study sources B‚ C. Compare these sources as evidence for the unrest in French provinces in the summer of 1789 (b) Study all the sources. Use your own knowledge to assess how far the sources support the interpretation that the main motive for revolutionary activity in 1789 was economic. Source A: A leading politician of the Third Estate responds to the instruction of Louis XVI for the representatives in the Estates General
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westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent‚ virtuous citizenry for its survival‚ and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership‚ especially the ownership of small farms. (“Those who labor in the earth‚” he wrote‚ “are the chosen people of God.”) In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen‚ the United States would have to continue to expand.The westward expansion of the
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American Romanticism (1820-1900) Background: Romanticism‚ a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness‚ and in critical usage is contrasted with classicism‚ which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period‚ but as a historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries in reaction to more rational literary‚ philosophic‚ artistic‚ religious‚ and economic standards. Since it gathered force gradually
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Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Westward Expansion of the United States To what extent is it accurate to claim that the ideal of manifest destiny was a motivating factor in the western expansions of the United States? The 1840s was a time of great territorial expansion during which the United States fought to annex Texas‚ acquire the Oregon territory‚ and conquer California and New Mexico from Mexico
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During the years between 1789–1792‚ the French revolution would change the country‚ through new development in its society‚ government and philosophy. Source A‚ a visual source‚ “1789 – Burden of the Third Estate”‚ depicts the three estates and the vast differences putting pressure on the struggling French society. The smallest and highest estate titled the ‘first estate’ is represented by a man dressed in a Mitre hat‚ Crosier and cross motifs to represent the church‚ like clergy and bishops‚ who
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railroads linked the most important Mid-West cities with the Atlantic coast. Railroads eventually opened the west and connected raw materials to factories and markets. A transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 in Promontory‚ Utah. On March 3‚ 1820‚ The Missouri Compromise bill‚ written by Henry Clay‚ is passed by the United States Congress. This legislation allowed slavery in the Missouri territory‚ but not in any other location west of the Mississippi River‚ the current southern line of the
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I have recently finished the book "Fever 1789" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was filled with a roller coaster of emotion leaving the reader on the edge before every chapter. The description in the book fills my mind of how it was back in the 1700’s. This book demostrats a good understanding of the environment and tone in the book. At the end of the book it shows real life sections of how Anderson used history into a fictional story. The other book i’m reading is "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. It shows a
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