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    Martha Vasquez November 23‚ 2013 E Block Identification of Terms- Unit 3 1 (4) Shakers Who: A group of religious people who derived their name from a unique ritual in which they would “shake” themselves free of sin. They were most well known for their celibacy‚ which meant that most Shakers entered the religion on their own. Also‚ they embraced the idea of sexual equality and believed God was not clearly male or female. When: Founded in the 1770s Significance or Impact: The Shakers made a redefinition

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    History 11 12/17/2006 The root causes and precipitating events that led to the Civil War (1861-1865) The Civil War between northern and southern states was a consequence of contradictions of two social systems inside the country. At the basis of these contradictions was a question of slavery‚ completely determining economic and political interests of South. North strived to enforce Federal government power to protect their own economic stability. As a result the South wanted a separation

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    APUSH 21 Nov 2013 Ch. 10 & 11 #2 Essay Question American Reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and pessimistic views of human and society. Assess the validity of this statement in reference to reform movements in THREE of the following: education‚ temperance‚ women’s rights‚ utopian experiments‚ penal institutions. (1988) The United States has seen change come and go over time. From the Great Awakening in the 1730s to the Technological revolution of the 20th century

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    in the benefits. Others believed that the church was going to quickly and greatly fall‚ and that it would cease to have an influence on the government and on everyday life. Those people were proven wrong. Organized Protestantism was at its peak by 1820‚ with reported 38‚183 church buildings in America‚ which was one for every 608 people. The total of all these churches is valued at over $87‚000‚000. In 1832‚ while the population of Roman Catholics rose by 88%‚ the population of evangelic clergymen

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    Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of two of the following: With the upset in balance of the Mexican War‚ antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty. The acquisitions of the Mexican War triggered an upset in the balance of free and slave states. The solution of extending the Missouri Compromise

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    government and foreign policy that supported France rather than England. The Federalists were in existance only a short time because of disagreement of the leaders‚ John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. The United States was a one party nation from 1800 to 1820. In 1828 the Jeffersonain (Democratic Republican) Party split into the Democrats and the Whigs. The Democrats wanted the states to have more power and the Whigs wanted stronger federal government. When Andrew Jackson was elected President in 1828

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    procreation 48. Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom that adorns the Capitol dome 49. The number of people who had braved the western trails and emigrated to Oregon and California 50. Mormons 51. Brigham Young 52. Joseph Smith 53. Texas in the 1820s 54. “Fifty-four forty or fight” 55. James Polk 56. The Mexican-American War 57. Manifest destiny 58. “Race” in the mid-nineteenth century 59. Freedom

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    power struggle between the old and the new. The new‚ just as it had done in the previous generations‚ was replacing the old and was using so called “justice” as its spearhead. This division‚ based upon several distinct factors‚ led to conflict and sectionalism within the country and ultimately started a war. The Southern states eventually seceded from the Union because of differences in cultural expansion‚ political beliefs‚ and authority. Culturally‚ the South and the North were almost always at odds

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    Faust‚ Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University Press of North Carolina‚ 1996. Oxford University Press‚ 1998. Fordham‚ Monroe. Major Themes in Northern Black Religious Thought‚ 1800-1860. Hicksville‚ New York: Exposition Press‚ 1975. Foster‚ Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat‚ the Lost Cause‚ and the Emergence of the New South‚ 1865-1913 229-249. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1998.

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    Antebellum Period Your Name here A research study on slavery of African American during Antebellum Era African American Studies 15 November‚ 2013 Antebellum (in Latin is pre-war) period (1781-1860) is an era of great upheaval and turbulence. The American Revolution concluded at the siege of Yorktown (1871)‚ and southern States of America became major source of political and economic force in the building of American Union and Nation. However‚ Southern States‚ cotton states

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