The expansion of America from the thirteen colonies across the entire continent was known as westward expansion. In 1845‚ John O’Sullivan‚ a newspaper editor that was writing about the possible annexation of Texas‚ coined the term Manifest Destiny. “Manifest Destiny…to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions” (Wexler 96). Manifest Destiny inspired a 29-year old named Stephen F. Austin to talk grandly of colonizing the Mexican province
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Tyler Miler APUSH 1/15/13 From the 1815-1860‚ two events changed the role of woman in society forever. From a social‚ political and cultural standpoints The antebellum market revolution and the second great awakening both played key roles in changing the woman’s role in the family‚ workplace and society. The antebellum market revolution was a key event in changing woman’s roles. Before the revolution blacks and women were not accompanied to the same rights as a white male‚ But white and white
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Andrew Johnson‚ popularly seemed unfit for the task of reconstruction of the country. Congress‚ Constitutional amendments‚ racism‚ and hateful terror groups would develop the civil rights movement‚ that would be a national transformation. Between 1860-1877 constitutional and social developments extensively amounted to a revolution‚ by ways of a public and congressional push for a
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Cotton Diplomacy During the 1850’s‚ the vast differences between the North and the South brought about the impending notion of war between the two. The South knew that the North had them beat on every level. The North had manufacturing capabilities with factories that could produce supplies necessary for outfitting an army. Also‚ the North’s population of 22 million was nearly three times the population of the South. The South only had nine million people‚ four million of whom were black slaves
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Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following influenced the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. Jacksonian economic policy Changes in electoral politics The Second Great Awakening The Westward movement Background information/Intro: Thesis: Both Jacksonian economic policy and westward movement in America were indicative of the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. It was in this antebellum era that the United States‚ with economic and sectional changes
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Cumnor in the 1860s: How Far Did Dependence on Agriculture Shape its Social Structure? ‘We stood in Cumnor ..A straggling line of scattered cottages with mud or rough stone walls uncemented and rude and low overhanging thatched roofs with here and there the bee hives on a bench by the gate in the low stone wall or a few brown faced urchins who peeped slily at the unaccustomed stranger….(Anon 1850) .. ‘We turned our back upon the line of cottages or huts perhaps they might be called’ the writer
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The problem of slavery in the territories created tensions that contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1860-61. The main explanation for the origins of the American Civil War is slavery‚ especially when it came to Southern anger. The Southern anger was based on the Northern attempts to avoid further slave expansion‚ which lead to numerous acts‚ and essentially caused the war against Mexico. The United States was a nation divided into two different regions separated by the Mason-Dixon Line
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Even before the nineteenth century‚ slavery was a controversial issue. It was so controversial in fact that politicians sought to suppressed the subject altogether hoping that it would just fade away‚ but as suppressed subjects tend to do‚ slavery became an even more of an impertinence‚ increasing in the Southern economy. Though efforts to save the union were ever present‚ they were out weighed by the sectionalist sentiments brought upon by divisions among societies in the North and South‚ societal
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A large variety of changes were happening for the United States. Between 1800 and 1825 the U.S. population doubled in size and public opinion was more important than ever. The United States was becoming more modern. New developments in industry‚ transportation‚ and communication began to unitize advanced industrial countries and the U.S. Trading was made easier with improved roadways. In the south‚ cotton became a profitable crop with the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin. Industry began flourishing
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During the 1800’s‚ Americans in the North and South often had conflict but could no longer resolve their political disputes through compromise by the year 1860. In this time period‚ compromise was not an option because slavery and states rights’ caused political disputes between the north and south.The two political parties in the north and south lost their ability to cooperate and by the mid 1800’s increased the issue of the division of the states. The political view on slavery and states rights
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