Reform, the South and Manifest Destiny

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Reform, the South and Manifest Destiny
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Culture and reform

• Religion
• Deism and the Unitarians.
• Second Great Awakening.
• Mormons.
• Public Education
• goals.
• Leaders.

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• Reform
• end of debtors prisons.
• Insanity
• Temperance Movement
• Womens reform movement
• links.
• Leaders
• Seneca Falls Conference.

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Literary gains

• The main players.
• Irving, Cooper, William Cullen Bryant,
  Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Whittier,
  Lowell, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poe, Hawthorne
  and Melville.

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Slavery

• Plantation life.
• The Necessity?
• Distribution.
• Radical Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth
• Northern and Southern opinions

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Tyler too!!!

• First accidental president.
• Political woes.
• Maine, Texas, and Oregon.
• Manifest Destiny
• Election of 1844 Polk v. Clay

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Polks goals

• Lower the tariff.
• Restoration of an independent treasury.
• Acquisition of California.
• Settlement of the Oregon dispute.

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War with Mexico 1846

• Why?
• Manifest destiny.
• Ill feeling over the Texas annexation.
• Southern boundary of Texas (Nueces v. Rio Grande)
• ???? Was the war fought for financial gains?????

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More War

• Significance.
• Size increased by 1/3.
• Increased belief in Manifest Destiny.
• Civil War testing ground.
• Increased military image worldwide.
• Re-ignited the slavery issue.