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Conflict- Slavery
the practice or system of owning slaves. Slavery was very significant to conflict because it was the main cause of the Civil war. There was also a moral value included with slavery. Some people thought it morally corrupt to own slaves and others didn't care, either because they did not have a moral fiber or they did not care and thought about the money aspect of slavery. -
Reform- Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. This was significance to reform because it was the religious motivation needed to make change. -
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Reform- Horace Mann
A legislator and educational reformer of the nineteenth century. In his home state of Massachusetts, Mann worked to increase the availability and quality of free, nondenominational public schools. Mann has been called the father of the American public school. -
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Reform- Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. The significance of Dorothea Dix was that she fought for change for the Mentally ill while others were not thinking of such things and her movement was overshadowed by an issue bigger than mental illness. Slavery. But we will always remember what she did. -
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Expansion- The Oregon Trail
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California. The Oregon Trail passed through what is now Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho. The significance of the Oregon Trail helped the expansion move west to spread America to the states that are here today. -
Reform- Abolitionism
The belief that slavery should be abolished. In the early nineteenth century, increasing numbers of people in the northern United States held that the nation's slaves should be freed immediately, without compensation to slave owners. -
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Reform- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. -
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Conflict- The Alamo
a Franciscan mission in San Antonio, Texas, besieged by Mexicans on February 23, 1836, during the Texan war for independence and taken on March 6, 1836, with its entire garrison killed. The significance of The events at the Alamo -
Conflict- Webster Ashburton treaty
an agreement between the U.S. and England (1842) defining the boundary between British and American territory from Maine to present-day Minnesota. -
Expansion- Manifest Destiny
The 19th-Century doctrine or belief was the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. The significance of the manifest destiny was people believed that America was expanding west and they had a right to do so. -
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Conflict- The Mexican-American War
A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion. -
Expansion- Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. -
Expansion- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary. The Significance of the treaty ended a war in favor of the US and made peace. -
Conflict- Civil Disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. This was also the premise of Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience". The significance of the term "Civil Disobedience" was when people were learning to speak for themselves and if necessary defy the government against whatever law or setting the government is responsible for. -
Expansion- Gadsden Purchase
An area in extreme southern New Mexico and Arizona south of the Gila River. It was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853 to ensure territorial rights for a practicable southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast. The significance of the Gadsden Purchase showed America expanding to greater heights and occupying land, it also pushed people who previously lived there to vacate for the American people.