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Nationalism: pride / love for one’s country Nationalism fueled by pride in rapid settlement
> some controversy Missouri Compromise (1820)
Missouri: Slave state Maine: Free state *Balance between free & slave states No slavery in northern part of Louisiana Territory
Sectionalism: one’s section / region is more important than the whole
Second Great Awakening Religious revival in 1820s & 30s Similar to First Great Awakening (1700s)
Reform Era Temperance: no alcohol Education: needed to make citizens Prison: Dix wanted standard care
Religion Allowed women to participate Worked to improve society
Seneca Falls Convention (1848) *1st women’s rights convention in U.S. Women not allowed to vote; restricted rights Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton *Marked beginning of modern women’s
movement
Abolition Movement to end slavery
Antislavery Efforts Revolts (Nat Turner) Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman)
Frederick Douglass Leading abolitionist Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass Supported women’s equality
•Manifest Destiny- America’s
belief that it was their God-given right to settle land in North America
- From Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
Bear Flag Revolt CA citizens revolted against Mexico in
Mexican-American War Republic of CA 1846
1848 Gold rush
1849 Thousands migrate to CA (Forty-niners)
1850 Population boom > 31st state
UTAH OREGON
Mormon Trail Utah territory (Great Salt
Lake) 1846 - 1857
Joseph Smith Founder of Later Day Saints Murdered
Brigham Young Looking for peace to
practice religion Led both gov’t & church
Pres. James Polk Wanted Oregon; pro
expansion Disputed 54 40’
Oregon Treaty British gain control of fur
ports in War of 1812 49 parallel = boundary Wars in Texas & Mexico
Oregon Trail
Stephen Austin 1823 established colony 1830: 30,000 settlers
Included enslaved African Americans & 4,000 Tejanos Texas Revolution
Texans want independence from Mexico Mexican demands not enforced > Mexican gov’t
decrease independence of Texans New Pres. of Mexico Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
suspended some powers March 2, 1836 Texas declared independence
*Most famous battle of Texas Revolution
187 Texans v. 5,000 Mexicans
General Santa Ana bombarded Texans for 12 days
All 187 died
To Santa Ana… Alamo = symbol of
Texas defiance To Texans…
Alamo = symbol of independence & liberty
“Remember the Alamo” April 21, 1836 Battle of
San Jacinto Gen. Santa Ana
captured & forced to sign treaty recognizing Texan independence
Not recognized by Mexico because signed under distress
Sam Houston President of Republic of
Texas Wanted to join Union U.S. reactions mixed
(debt, slavery, manifest destiny)
Pres. Polk Texas annexation issue
in election of 1844 Pro-annexation Texas became a state
Dec. 29, 1845
CAUSES EFFECTS
Annexation of Texas Mexico broke diplomatic
relations Boundary dispute
Rio Grande river + $30 million = proposal but Mexicans refused to meet
Manifest destiny & expansion
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
Mexican Cession Mexico no claim to Texas Gave up New Mexico, CA,
Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
Gadsen Purchase (1853) US paid $15 million for
land