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Social Reform-Education
Protestants swept the United States in the 20's and 30's, and church memberships rose. The sale of liquor was outlawed. The reformers started to work for womens rights, better education, and the abolition of slavery. Additional expensive private schools were opened, that offered better education; while poor children attended "pauper/charity" schools or didnt' attend school at all. During the 30's it was demended that everyone gets and equally good education, rich or poor. -
Cultural Changes
The wilderness stated to seem less and less hostile. American philosophers praised nature as a source of beauty and truth for all. A new printing poress that enabled artists to produce many copies of theri work cheaply. The cost of newspapers went down; faster printing presses and cheaper paper were mad. Poor people could now afford newspapers, when publishers lowered the cost of a cent. Theater audiences grew, wiht Black-Face minstred shows becoming popular. -
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Expansion
The United States grew in wealth, population, and land. The British, Irish, German, and Scandinavian immagrants started settling westward and into the Eastern cities. The cotton industry grew, and big industries stated getting built. -
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Social Reform-Women's Rights and Slavery
Women didn't have many rights until after 1820. The first coed college was not opened until 1833, and women only got to own there own property while married after 1848. Abolitionists wanted to end slavery. They demanded that slavery was stoppped in the South. Nat Tunrner led the biggest slavery rebellion where over 180 people were killed, atleast 100 were African-American's who hadn't even participated in the rebellion. -
The Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, which was warning Europeahn contries not to interfere with the nations in the western hemisphere. Also the united States maintained peaceful relations with many foriegn countries. -
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Andrew Jackson's Presidence
The Era of Good Feeling ended with the election of 1824. John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and two other Demorcratic-Repulicans competed to becomwe hte next president (after James Monroe). andrew Jackson won the election, was known as the most influencial leader of the time, and became a man you either loved or despised. Jackson began the rotation in office and the second National Bank. During his presidency Congress placed a tariff of imported goods, which created a small crisis. -
Indian Removal
As settlers moved west they needed more land, so they began taking land from the Indians, President Jackson urged the Removal Act of 1830 which stated that if Native Maericans gave up their land in the east for land int the west, they could keep that western land "forever". The cherokee's, howere, decided to fight back. the Cherokee nation forbade members of the tribe to sell land to white people. the Supreme Court determained that Cherokee law would be followed on cheokee land. -
Panic of 1837
A depression economically terrorized the United States after van Buren became president. van Buren's political views and ways of enforcing them, was blamed for the depression. -
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Immigration
About 100,000 people immigrated to the united States. the economy flourished during these years of immigration;with canals, railroads, docks, and new factories, The immigration made the untied States a mizing pot of cultures with lare populations of Irish and German people. ( later on people aslo came from China to the West Coast) -
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Mexican War
President James K. Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to accompany land near the Rio Grande that both the United States and Mexico claimed. Fighting broke out. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed was signed to end the war. the treaty gave the United States a lot of land from Texas to the Pacific and north of Oregon. -
Transportation
Advances in transportation and communication changed America. Lines of railroad had increased to 9,000 miles worth of operating trak. Steam boats, canal boats, and steam powered trains (along with roads) also made it easier to get to the western half of the United States.
