expand across the continent‚ from Atlantic coast to Pacific Coast. Americans wanted to own all the land across the continent because that is why they believed God had created the land like that. In addition‚ there were economic depressions in 1818 and 1839 that lead many people searching for land in frontier areas. In many cases frontier land was much more inexpensive or even free so they wanted to take advantage of the land. Americans also saw this as a good opportunity to promote and expand commerce
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American Antislavery 1820-1860 The antebellum American antislavery movement began in the 1820s and was sustained over 4 decades by organizations‚ publications‚ and small acts of resistance that challenged the legally protected and powerful institution of slavery and the more insidious enemy of black equality‚ racism. Abolitionists were always a radical minority even in the free states of the North‚ and the movement was never comprised of a single group of people with unified motivations‚ goals
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There are many things that an American student must do to contribute to American culture. American culture today is a melting pot of the best and worst parts of every other culture. In order to have the culture be the best it can be the young in American society must have good values. Though society helps shape the values found in American culture‚ three values remain constant for the young American: a person must be a good listener‚ have respect‚ and be a hard worker. Respect is one of the many
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American Romanticism (1820-1900) Background: Romanticism‚ a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness‚ and in critical usage is contrasted with classicism‚ which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period‚ but as a historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries in reaction to more rational literary‚ philosophic‚ artistic‚ religious‚ and economic standards. Since it gathered force gradually
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fabric by bringing spinning and weaving tools together into one factory. In 1846‚ Elias Howe created the sewing machine which revolutionized the manufacture of clothing. All of a sudden‚ clothing began to be made in factories as opposed to at home. Rising industries and factories led people to move from farms to cities. This led to other overcrowding and disease. However‚ agriculture got better including machines and cultivators. For example‚ Cyrus McCormick created the reaper which allowed for quick
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American Expansion American Expansion from 1800 to 1848 benefitted the nation but at great cost. Nineteenth century was a time of remarkable growth and expansion in America. It was the century when America had grown with the addition of Texas‚ Louisiana and the land added through the war with Mexico. It was the century marked by the migration of settlers to the West of the continent because of the gold rush and desire for novelties. The idea of Manifest Destiny spread quickly throughout the
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Douglas Okwu 12-1-2012 Period: 7th Analyze the effects of political compromise in reducing sectional tension in the period 1820-1861. During the period of 1820-1861 the north and south debated on issues that dealt with slavery and unbalance power‚ in order to reduce sectional tension between these two states‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were proposed. The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery‚ The South favored slavery because
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In his review of a new book called "Brief candle in the dark"‚Steven Shapin of The Guardian seems to evenhandedly evaluate Richard Dawkins‚one of the top thinkers of current world. As a professor of "public understanding of science" at Oxford‚ evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins shifted his intellectual emphasis to more of a preacher of "Reasons" that‚according to Dawkins‚are almost exclusively yields of science than clarifying the biological way of understanding the world around us. As a self-professed
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south‚ were located in the same country but were very different from each other. The North and the South made it very clear that they live different lifestyles. Their terrain was different along with their tariffs. These sectional differences in way of life led to the American Civil War. The daily lifestyle of a southern was very different from the lifestyle of a northerner. In the south many were farmers. They grew cash crops such as cotton and tobacco. These crops were a way of life for many
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The two most important components in the development of the American West that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century were the expansion of the West and the decline of Native Americans. In the middle of the Civil War‚ Congressional Northerners were looking to populate the West with free labor and they developed the Homestead Act of 1862. This Act would promise settlers 160 acres of land to populate and develop and after five years‚ the land would become theirs. Almost 400‚000 farms
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