...From 1776 to 1852, the United States began to have a growth of the abolitionist movement and increasing anti-slavery notions. The reason for the growing movement that opposed slavery was mainly caused by the Second Great Awakening and religious notions that stemmed from it, the growing notions of Sectionalism and the consequences of the early abolition of slavery in most New England states, and Racial Paternalism as a justification for slavery and the consequences of such. One reason slavery began to have growing opposition to it is due to the Second Great Awakening. Historically, the increase in religious fervor from the Second Great Awakening brought about reform movements such as the women’s suffrage movement, movements for the reform...
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...Summerize the Issues and Events of the War of 1812 Around the time of the War with 1812 the U.S was capitalizing from the war between Britain and France by trading goods to both, but swearing support for neither country. We got rich off of both nations, our trade expanded and the economy grew while we were able to stay free of foreign entanglement. A number of things though caused the War of 1812 1) Violations of the American Sovereignty by Great Britain.. a) Impressments Imprisonment or kidnapping of U.S. citizens and merchant marines on the open sea b) Interference with American shipping and trade c) Britain's refusal to turn over western forts promised to them at the end of the American Revolution, thus supporting the Native-American resistance. 2) American expansionism. Conquering of Great Britain's Canadian colonies to get them off of North America for good. 3) Growing Presence in U.S. politics of War Hawks a) War Hawks led by Henry Clay b) Asked for a declaration of war against Great Britain as a response to the grievances listed above and for the chance to take over the British Canadian colonies. There were four theatres of operation during the war. 1) The Atlantic Ocean 2) The Great Lakes and the Canadian frontier 3) The coast of the United States 4) The Southern states With the British ships outnumbering the United States vessels, the goal of the British was to protect their own merchant ships to and from Canada while cutting off the American...
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...As Nationalism seemed to emerge triumphant after the War against on 1812 , stronger sectional rivalries developed between North and South . Sectionalism developed because of the North and South diverse. Such as various lifestyles, social arrangement, and political difference and especially Slaves. The North used their slave for manufacturer and grow their factors. While the south was focusing on the agriculture without any help of slaves. These two differences created that which part should allow the slaves. This caused the sectionalism develop. The debate over Missouri reflected these differences led to accommodation Maine should be free, and Missouri should be slave. The nationalism reflected off foreign policy on the Adams-Onis Treaty through...
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...The decades of 19th century in American history are witness to the rival, contending forces of nationalism and sectionalism. Nationalism, a devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation, played a major role is shaping our economy. The idea of expanding America had triggered a major movement to go west. The Monroe Doctrine, which was introduced to Congress by President Monroe himself, was an outcome of this great idea of expanding the nation. The Missouri Compromise had divided the slave states and the free states once and for all. Sectionalism, placing the interests of one region ahead of the welfare of the nation as a whole, offers two great examples in which the country was split. The National Bank, which was proposed by Alexander Hamilton, brought up a lot of controversy in the south, as well as in the west. Not only did the National Bank disgruntle the southerners, but the Tariff of 1816, proposed by James Madison, did as well. Sectionalism challenged nationalism, but the latter remained strong among the American people. On December 2, 1823, President Monroe addressed a message to congress. In his message, James Monroe was informing the powers of the Old World that the American continents were no longer open to European colonization. He also stated that the outside powers shall not try to overthrow the newly independent republics in the Western Hemisphere. Any effort to extend European political influence into the New World would be considered by the United States...
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...During the Era of Good Feelings, the number of cotton plantations was increasing in the South. This increased the South’s dependence on slave labor. The Missouri compromise was a law devised to regulate slavery in the western territories. However, it failed to pass leaving the the issue of slavery still an unsolved issue. After the Missouri compromise sectionalism began to arise between the Southern and Northern states. The topic of slavery would be one of the major issues that eventually lead to the Civil...
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...movements in the mid-1800s? 9. Identify the major reform movements of the mid-1800s. 10. What effect did the women’s rights movement have? 11. Identify significant figures in the abolitionist movement and describe their efforts to end slavery. 12. How did territorial expansion into Texas lead to conflict and change? 13. Explain how “Manifest Destiny” resulted in westward expansion. 14. Describe how the Mexican War resulted in increased sectionalism. 15. Which territorial acquisitions were a result of the Mexican War? Flashcards: http://www.quia.com/jg/2615676.html Words to know 1. nationalism 2. protective tariff 3. internal improvement 4. sectionalism 5. doctrine 6. suffrage 7. patronage 8. nullification 9. reform 10. temperance 11. abolitionism 12. manifest destiny U.S. History ©2014 Unit 3 Facts to Know 1. What term refers to the patriotism and national unity expressed during the Era of Good Feelings? 2. What invention increased the dependence on slavery in the South during the early 1800s? 3. What were the three main...
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...Many people believe that the major cause of the Civil War was because of slavery. In reality there were several factors that including about regional diversity, differing interpretation of the constitution, slavery, state's right, sectionalism, especial territorial expansion, led to the Civil War. States’ right is one of the most symbols of the American Civil War. States’ Right refers to the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. Since the time of the Revolution, two camps emerged: those arguing for greater states’ rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to have more control. At the Constitutional Convention and create, in secret, the US Constitution, many felt that the new constitution ignored the rights of states to continue to act independently. They felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. And this resulted in the idea of nullification, whereby the states would have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. When nullification would not work and states felt that they were no longer respected, they moved towards secession. The Northern and Southern sections of the United States developed along different lines. The South was mostly rural and agricultural. With invention (sang che’) of the cotton gin in 1793,cotton farming becoming the most profitable (loi nhuan) business in the South....
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...African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, which people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies. Slaves were auctioned openly in the Market House of Philadelphia; in the shadow of Congregational churches in Rhode Island; in Boston taverns and warehouses; and weekly, sometimes daily, in Merchant's Coffee House of New York. Such Northern heroes of the American Revolution as John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin bought, sold, and owned black people. William Henry Seward, Lincoln's anti-slavery Secretary of State during the Civil War, born in 1801, grew up in Orange County, New York, in a slave-owning family and amid neighbors who owned slaves if they could afford them, Abraham Lincoln himself and his family, when he lived in Pennsylvania in colonial times, owned slaves as well. African American life in the United States has been framed by migrations, forced and free. A forced migration from Africa—the transatlantic slave trade—carried black people to the Americas. A second forced migration—the internal slave trade—transported them from the Atlantic coast to the interior of the American South. A third migration—this time initiated largely, but not always, by black Americans—carried black people from the rural South to the urban North. At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, African American life is again being transformed by another migration, this time a global one, as peoples...
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...people and goods from one end of the United States to the other. The railroad was another invention that promoted unity. Railroads provided a rapid and reliable link between regions, and eventually transformed small western towns into booming commercial centers. However, these attempts at unifying the expansive nation failed against the stronger power of sectionalism. The facade of unity masked a divided nation. Although some may promote westward expansion, the havoc it wreaked on America far outweighed the benefits it awarded the American individual. Beginning in the colonial era, westward movement was a significant part of American history. Even before the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory, Americans were planning movement westward in the Land Ordinance of 1785 which divided up the western frontier. Then, in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Congress provided a method for admitted new states into the union. Once Native Americans were forced to relinquish their lands after the victories of William Harrison and Andrew Jackson, American dreams of westward migration came to fruition. With a growing population and increased economic pressures after the embargo in the Northeast, many fled to the west looking for a better life. Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas provided fertile new land for southern farmers who had long-since exhausted their land’s soil. The promise of cheap, fertile land drew droves of Americans to the west. This mass migration created many more problems...
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...In the years following the War of 1812, the first evidence emerged of sectionalism which would ultimately lead to the Civil War. Ironically, in the years preceding that time the nation grew significantly overall and was heralded by a sentiment of nationalism throughout the country. Economic and territorial growth both contributed to the postwar expansion. These were also factors in the resurgence of nationalism along with several others. This positive movement was not without some turbulence. Several factors led to the postwar expansion. Most of these factors were the consequences of lessons learned during the War of 1812. It effectively exposed the inadequacy of the current transportation and financial systems. Following the closing...
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...Due to this, many people led themselves to believe that the insurrection wouldn’t have been so successful if Nat Turner hadn’t been educated. Hence, many whites became fearful of educating blacks after the rebellion as they feared they would challenge white supremacy. Whites rationalised slavery by telling each other that the blacks were intrinsically less intelligent and civilized than they were and by allowing education to black slaves this would be exposed as a lie. Very few blacks received any education at all and black schools obtained far less financial support than white schools. Shortly after the uprising, it became a crime to teach either free blacks or blacks in slavery as anxiety increased amidst the white community. 1831 was seen as a significant year to desist the education of blacks in order to prevent any future slave revolts. Hence, The Southampton Insurrection significantly impacted the southern populace’s opinion on the education of blacks because Nat Turner had learnt to read at a young age. However, The Southampton Insurrection arguably strengthened anti-slavery...
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...greatly impacted how Americans lived was Howe’s sewing machine, which was later improved upon by Isaac Singer. Because of Singer’s sewing machine, it not only “revolutionized” women’s work, but also allowed women to have more leisure time to themselves. Another invention that influenced how people of the 18th century worked was McCormick’s reaper. Instead of harvesting less than a half of an acre a day, McCormick’s reaper now enabled farmers to harvest more than twelve acres a day. Because of the various inventions, it eventually allowed the displaced workers to work on other jobs within places such as the shoe factories, iron foundries, and textile mills. During the nine years between 1845 and 1854, the population of America dramatically increased due to the large influx of Irish and Germans immigrants. After more than a million people died from the deadly potato epidemic, more than two million Irish people immigrated to the United States in search for high-paying jobs and the American Dream. Though the Irish hoped for a successful future in America, they were instead, greeted resistance, as they were unskilled laborers who often fought for low-paying jobs. By the 1850s, many of the Irish were seen equal with the African Americans. On contrary to the Irish, the Germans were welcomed more open-heartedly. Since the Germans were cultured, professional people, their status granted them with a variety of different jobs. However, not all Germans were professional people. Most Germans were...
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...During the Era of Good Feelings, the United States was swept up in a newfound nationalist movement as citizens finally considered themselves as Americans rather than residing in a specific state. The crusade against the division amongst states lasted well into the 19th century, during which the rise of nationalism heavily correlated to both the War of 1812 and cultural and economic shifts. While the outcome of the War of 1812 played a significant role in emergence of nationalism, economic and cultural relevancy must not be dismissed as both are major contributing factors. It is impossible to argue that the War of 1812 was anything less than majorly significant in the role of introducing nationalism into America. Due to the war, nationalism...
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...but it did influence the contradicting beliefs of the Northern and Southern states. The Dred Scott v. Sandford case was a supreme court case about a slave named Dred Scott who traveled with his owner into a free state and spent time there, but then moved to Missouri with his owner which was a slave state. His argument was that since he spent enough time in a free state, he should be awarded his freedom and not have to work in Missouri as a slave. The southern dominated court disagreed and said that the constitution does not apply to any male or female from Africa or any descendents of that male or female. The court ruled that since Dred Scott is not considered an American, he had no right to sue in a court of law. This case increased tensions and sectionalism between the Northerners and Southerners. The Southerner’s breaking point was when Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Even though Lincoln said that he was willing to protect slavery where it already existed, the Southerners feared that he would rescind this promise. Southerners saw him as a threat because he was a Republican and did not want slavery to expand. Starting with South Carolina, southern states started to secede from the Union and create a Confederacy. The argument that southerners needed slaves for agriculture and the economy was disagreed upon by northerners, which actuated the civil war. ...
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