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Women’s Right
gender equality and ensure that all women and girls are able to lead lives of dignity, free from violence and discrimination, including discrimination based on gender stereotypes. This means an America where all women and girls have equal access to quality education, employment, housing, and health, irrespective of race, class, income, immigration status or involvement with the criminal justice system. -
Discovery of the Asyllum
In the 1820’s through the 1830’s reforms started to be made about the division of the mentally ill and the disabled from criminals. Before this movement children, murders, people with learning and physical disability were all put in one big prison. -
Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion
Led by Nat Turner killed 50 - 55 people, which of its time, was the the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. -
Manifest Destiny
1845, Referred to a doctrine in support of territorial expansion based on beliefs that population growth demanded territorial expansion, that God supported American expansion, and national expansion equaled the expansion of freedom. -
women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls.
The first womens right movement orgnized by lucreca mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Declaration of Sentiments was also drafted at this convention, and 68 women and 32 men signed this declaration. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was one of the major that started the civil war. The compromise was between the north and the south, over California becoming a free state. The south was very mad about this because it gave more power to the north so as a compromise the government made the fugitive law to make the south happy. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
January 1854, the senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill, that would divide the land west of the Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Douglas said that popular sovereignty would decide if slavery would be legal there or not. Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 slavery should be outlawed in both territories -
Election of 1860
Four candidates went against each other the republican democratic and constitutional union. Republican had Abraham Lincoln. The Democratic was split into 2 groups, Southern democratic had John C. Breckinridge, Northern democratic had Stephen A. Douglas. Constitutional Union had John Bell. Lincoln won the election but only received 40% of the popular vote.