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The Second great awakening began in the 1800's but in 1850 women became involved and many became saved and started to do big things for women's rights.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected in 1801 after 36 ballots. He became the 3rd U.S. president
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from the France which included 15 states that are part of the U.S. today.
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This was the naval war between Great Britain and the United States
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McCulloch v. Maryland was when Maryland wanted to impose taxes on the bank. McCulloch refused to pay it and there was a battle between this in which McCulloch won.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed as a thing that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state
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Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 after losing in 1824 and became the first person to be a democratic president
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The Liberator began publication in 1831 and was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp.
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. ... Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of the United States would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.
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This was a conflict between South Carolina and the Federal Gov't.
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Dorothea Dix visited her first jail with insane inmates and saw mentally ill women being treated horribly right alongside bad criminals. This was when she knew there had to be a change and she sparked it from this.
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This was the first women's rights convention ever and it helped women know that they can do big things.
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This was the thing that if any slaves ran away, they were to be returned to their masters.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this to help the slaves get understood and many did. It was a story about slavery and slave hunters.
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Walden publishes his book in 1854 talking about how he lived in a cabin for a while trying to get away from the advancements in the world
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Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas.
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He published this and talked about his life as a slave and many felt bad and started to want to put an end in slavery.
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Whitman published this and it was a very unique poetry collection in 1855, in which it was very transcendentalist.
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He ran away North and thought he was safe, but then became a slave. He went to court as the first black person and won, but no black person was ever to do that again.
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this was the attempted attack on the Harper's Ferry by John Brown and 22 others, in which he failed and was defeated.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president after facing a very divided democrat party in 1860.
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The Civil War beginning was the fight in America between the South and the North and started when the Southerners attacked the Northerners at Fort Sumter.
