and expanded. Nationalistic Americans worked hard to promote the idea of democracy and human rights. Reform movements had a major impact in expanding democratic ideals. It promoted democracy effectively throughout the nation. Between the years 1825-1850‚ reform movements sought to expand and emphasize democratic ideals in order to maintain a more equal society for all. The Second Great Awakening‚ led by Charles G. Finney‚ played an important role in the reform movements that expanded the idea
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Andrew Jackson Jackson was born on March 15‚ 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson‚ Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier. Jackson’s father was born in Carrickfergus‚ County Antrim‚ in current-day Northern Ireland‚ around 1738. Jackson’s parents lived in the village of Boneybefore‚ also in County Antrim. When they immigrated to America in 1765‚ Jackson’s parents probably landed in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. They would have
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responsibility. Inherited English tradition‚ required towns to take care of their poor. Industrialization and immigration brought poverty of a new kind and on a new scale to American cities in the 1820s‚ intensifying in the economic crises of the late 1830s and the 1850s. The number of people needing help increased dramatically‚ in part from the isolated nature of all industrial jobs and in part from recurring financial panics.
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and coincided with the Monroe Doctrine—both assertions of political nationalism (Doc H). The presidential elections of 1820 and 1824 illuminated the change over time in nationalism and sectionalism in American politics. In 1820‚ an overwhelming majority elected James Monroe‚ president‚ showing an absence of sectionalism; however‚
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different lives‚ relying more on factory work rather than plantations‚ and separation over the matter of slavery would exist in America from this time through the Civil War‚ dividing the country into slave states and free states. As a result of sectionalism‚ new policies were issued in order to keep a positive atmosphere in the country‚ one of which being the Missouri Compromise. Tensions between the north and the south came to a head after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave
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beautification implements‚ toothbrushes‚ toys‚ writing materials‚ and coins. Archaeologists have performed comparative analysis of artefacts types across select sites (including whaling stations‚ 1830s–1840s; Cumberland/Gloucester Streets‚ pre-1833/post-1833; Casselden Place‚ 1860s-1870s; Paradise‚ 1890s; and Viewbank‚ 1850s-1870s)‚ to understand differences in people’s diet‚ health‚ class and status. This provides archaeologists a rare glimpse into the private lives of Australian families. Crook hypothesises
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It can be debated that financial prominence is the most important aspect of a person’s place in society‚ more so than race‚ gender‚ or religion. This paper reconnoiters the effects of growing up in poverty and the economic‚ social‚ and psychological effects of being raised in such an environment. In today’s world‚ the word poverty is well known throughout most societies. Poverty may have the definition of anyone who lives pay check to pay check. Or for some poverty may be as extreme as one who lives
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Unit 4: Jackson and Antebellum Era Chapters 13-19 The chart must be typed following the format of the example (including numbering items). All definitions and examples must relate to this time period. Follow the format of the example; relevance must be numbered and separated by a line space. Historical Relevance means how an event it connected to other events that occur at the same time or how one event impacted or led to another event. How do events in history relate to one another
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Sectionalism was the principal cause of the American Civil War‚ a reality acknowledged in Allan Nevins’ observation that the North and South ‘were rapidly becoming separate peoples’. The financial differences between the north and south due to increasing social‚ economical and political differentiation resulted in the prominence of slavery as an issue‚ further dividing the North and South. This sectionalism caused the emergence of the Republican Party with its anti-slavery platform‚ causing the
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the British government. However‚ less than one century‚ the United States became a strong and powerful country: its territory was expanded; its economic condition was increased; its spirit was created. What led to this transformation from 1770s to 1850s? A lot of essential events took place in the 1770s‚ such as the Boston Massacre occurred on March 5‚ 1770‚ followed by the Townshend Act‚ Quartering Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Sugar Act‚ and etc. These events let the United States get rid of the Britain. It was
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