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US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions
US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum (view source)
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'''BIG IDEAS''' | '''BIG IDEAS''' | ||
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<big>'''Manifest Destiny & western expansion'''</big> | |||
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<big>'''Expansion of Slavery (Texas)'''</big> | |||
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<big>''' | <big>'''Gold Rush of 1849'''</big> | ||
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<big>''' | <big>'''Aboltion, Women's suffrage & other reform movements'''</big> | ||
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<big>'''Transcendentalism'''</big> | |||
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Western expansion leads to Mexican-American war | |||
Manifest Destiny | |||
> Manifest -= plain, easy to see, clear + Destiny = going to happen | |||
>> to move westward | |||
Justifies western expansion, settlement | |||
>> v. Indians and Spain / Mexico | |||
= notion that the nation will expand and it is good and right | |||
also: | |||
Gold Rush of 1849 | |||
Effects: transportation, movement, banking (also slavery tensions) | |||
> political activism, especially in response to Compromise of 1850 | |||
> American anti-slavery society | |||
>> William Lloyd Garrison< abolitionist leader, publisher | |||
>> inspired by David Walker, a free black in Boston in 1820s | |||
> Frederic Douglass | |||
> Harriett Tubman | |||
> Sojourner Truth | |||
> underground railroad | |||
Reform Movements | |||
>> combined activism: suffrage, abolitions, temperance, education | |||
Transcendentalism | |||
= belief that god exists in humans, man & society can be perfected | |||
> Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
> Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlett Letter) | |||
> David Thoreau | |||
- Sectional dispute over where to build transcontinental railroad | |||
> northern or southern route? | |||
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