Changes in USReforms and Moving West

Texas, Mexican War, and Slavery

Economy&

Regional Differences

routine - long hours - strict

Lowell Textile Mills dominated New England

country girls moving to work in mills and make $

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Social Movts

Independent Thinkers

RalphWaldo Emerson

founder of the Transcendental Mov’t

Independent Thinkers

Henry David Thoreau

founder of the Transcendental Mov’t

Independent Thinkers

Henry David Thoreau

Martin LutherKing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2nd Great AwakeningReligious Revivals- each person should seek their own salvation

People should change themselves and society

Religious Revivals- each person should seek their own salvation

People should change themselves and society Abolitionists

become a strong movt. They seek to abolish or end slavery

William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass

Former slave. Brilliant speaker. Very smart. No one could believe he had been a slave... he becomes leading black spokesman for abolition of slavery

Publisher of major abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. Pushed for immediate end to slavery

Women’s Changing Role in

Society

1848 Declaration of Sentiments

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott Women meet at Seneca Falls, NY and declare they should have the same rights as men....it doesn’t go anywhere but it is the 1st organized effort to make women’s voices heard

TEXAS

1. Americans move to the Mexican land called Tejas (Texas)2. 1836 Eventually the American’s will want independence from the Mexican gov’t3. Texas will become its own country for 9 years4. 1846-1848 We fight a war with Mexico

Why Settlers Moved to Mexico and the Mexican territory of Texas

1836 Eventually the American’s will want independence from the Mexican gov’t

1836 Texas becomes it’s own country for 9 years

slavery...

Mexican American War

1846-1848 We fight a war with Mexico and then we allow Texas to enter the Union as a state

Mexican American War

America wins the Mexican American War 1846-1848

Americans Move West

1862 Homestead Act: 160 acres- free! if you live on it for 5 years and improve it. The race was on!

Let’s Review All The Territory Gained By The US In The 1800s

Adams -Onis Treaty

That Brings the Slavery Issue To Light