Between the period of 1850 and 1900‚ the nation was faced with a developing industrialized economy. As the factories started to expand‚ the American workers moved with the change. For many‚ the old ideals of America began to fade away as well. The American dream to prosperity was to invest in land which meant a safe haven for their family. It is necessary to examine fully what kind of people they were at the beginning of the process and to take account of continuities and traditions as well as new
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The Compromise of 1850 was effective for the southern states even though California was a slave free state in 1849 when California joined the union. (1) Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois managed to push this agreement for California to enter the Union as a free state but there were concessions made to slave owners about other acquisitions. (1)With this result the people in the southern states felt a relief of tension and a cause for celebration. This gave the southerners the right to retain
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Chapter 32 1. How did territorial expansion affect Native Americans in North America? The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion. 2. How were the contradictions of economic expansion expressed by American artists? Walt Whitman linked the romantic‚ transcendental‚ and realist movements together to revolutionize literature. The American
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The society in the North increased do to immigration between 1800 and 1860. The population in the North started at 5 million and went up to about 31 million do with massive immigration. The immigration affects the economy do to all the jobs open. The economy has big cities from the immigration witch is good for the trade and manufacturing. Water from rivers and streams are used to make water power. Water power was used to run the factories . To the economy going up in the North the harbors and streets
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EXPANSION IN THE 1840’S AND 1850’S 1. As our nation expanded from 1845-1860 political leaders could not solve‚ evade or escape the question as to whether or not to allow the expansion of slavery into the territories. MANIFEST DESTINY- had overtaken American justification for expansion- The US had the right and the obligation to expand to the Pacific. 1846- Americans fought an 18 month war against Mexico that resulted in the acquisition of more than half of Mexico--- one third of the current
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Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was made in 1850‚ to help the problem of California being turned into a free or slave state. In order to please the North‚ it proposed California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. In order to please the South it proposed that Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico‚ and Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
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Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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transportation revolution was between 1800 and 1840 and it was basically the time when roads and canals were built to transport different things like people or goods. Next came the Market Revolution this revolution it replaced the hand made products with different power machines that could do more. In the early 19th century the putting out system came about this is when raw goods were made in homes. During the Commercial Agriculture in the old northwest by the 1850 the northwest was the nation’s
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 A little after the Manifest Destiny‚ the U.S. faced a series of troubles of sectional balances over whether or not the land acquired should be free or slavery states. The Compromise of 1850‚ proposed by Senator Henry Clay‚ included measures that dealt with the land acquired specifically from the Mexican War. Until 1845‚ it had seemed likely that slavery would be confined to the areas where it already existed. It had been given limits by the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and
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1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800 1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt
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