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Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments

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Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments

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The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women, The Seneca Falls Convention.
Importance:
-first women's rights convention held in the United States
-'Declaration of Sentiments,' demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote
- Led to the19th Amendment(August 1920) which gave women the right to vote

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an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.
Importance:
-it connected to many other reform movements that sprang up in the country between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
-it was fundamental to the concept of individual choice and responsibility
-Transcendentalism

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Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.
Importance:
-ideas of abolitionism occurred during the Second Great Awakening
-United States prohibited the importation of slaves in 1807
-American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–70)/William Lloyd Garrison
-Lead to the Civil War

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Communities with impossibly ideal conditions, especially of social organization, ideologies, and politics.
Examples of Utopias in the 19th Century:
-Brook Farm (1841-1846): Boston/George Ripley
-Fruitlands (1843-1844):
Massachusetts/Charles Lane and Bronson Alcott
-Oneida (1848−1881):
New York
Importance:
-the idea of a perfect society intertwined with communalism
-Mormons(Latter Day Saints) was the most famous and longest lasting Utopia

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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States beginning around 1790 and peaking around 1800.
Importance:
-revived the emotional side of religion
-created divisions within the church leading to more diversity
-influenced social reform

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Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century (1800 to 1850.)
Importance:
-Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
-appealed to the revolutionary spirit of America as well as to those longing to break free of the strict religious traditions of early settlement
-American Romanticism embraced the individual

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A war (1846-1848) between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the cession by Mexico of lands now constituting all or most of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
Importance:
-Treaty of Guadalupe(Mexican Cession)
-Further chased the ideals of Manifest Destiny
- issue of slavery in the new territories was raised
-Helped create conditions for the Civil War

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A United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay that regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
Importance:
-Help maintain balance in the House of Representatives.
- Effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries
-established the principle that Congress could make laws regarding slavery
-Power was debated, however the Union remained intact.

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a principle of US policy,  by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by European Powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
Importance:
-Paved the way for Manifest Destiny
-Influenced the Mexican American War

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19th century belief in the United States , that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Importance:
- Louisiana Purchase, Annexation of Texas, Mexican Cession, Oregon Territory, etc.
-Influenced  the progression of liberty and individual economic opportunity
-Lead to conflicts with Native Americans and other foreign territorial claims.

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a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection
- Invented by Samuel Morse
-Morse Code
-vastly improved communications throughout the world changing how people perceived time and distance

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(1800-1848) During this time period, the United States was no longer concerned with colonization, but with the development of their new country. The 1800's became a time of socialism, expansion, and development. Ideological movements such as Manifest Destiny, The Second Great Awakening, The American System, and the Market Revolution all had the goal to expand the borders of the United States as well as develop sectional characteristics that not only establish the independence of the U.S, but also helped form American Identity.

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The Cotton Gin and the System of Interchangeable part were two very important inventions created by American Inventor Eli Whitney that had a great impact on the Market Revolution.
Importance:
-The cotton gin increased cotton production in the Southern economy and made it cheaper to trade.
-The Interchangeable Parts benefited the factories of the North by improving the production and making products cheaper to repair and replace.

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The development of railroads was one of the most important factors Industrial Revolution. They helped bring about social, economic and political change to a country
Importance:
-Fastest mode of transportation
-Lead to the Transcontinental Railroad
-Transferred small western towns into boomtowns.

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A new mode of river transportation invented by Robert Fulton, an American engineer, whose  first successful steamboat was called Clermont.
Importance:
-made transportation easier
-Made a trip upriver from New York to Albany in 62 hours
-Transformed the Market Revolution

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economic transformation that occurred in America during the first half of the nineteenth century that caused dramatic expansion of the market through the construction of roads and canals.
Importance:
- Eli Whitney and the cotton gin and the interchangeable parts
-Samuel Slater and the factory system
-Robert Fulton and the steamboat
-Prosperity for the North and West; South remained isolated.

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The American System, as proposed by Henry Clay and the Whigs, was designed to protect the interests of US industry and agriculture.(Influence by Alexander Hamilton)
Importance:
-proved to be good for the farmers of the West, and the Northeast, but not the South.
-Panic of 1837
- Consisted of the National Bank, Internal Improvements, and Tarrifs

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Nativism is a political position of supporting a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. Developed during the great migrations of the 1800's.
Importance:
-impacted politics during the mid-19th century
- Know Nothing Party
-(No Irish Need Apply-NINA)

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Forty-Eighters were Europeans(Particularly Germans) who supported the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. In the German states, the Forty-Eighters favored unification of the German people, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights
Importance:
- Forty- Eighters assumed positions of ethnic leadership, especially with German- American organizations and in the German-American press
-founded new organizations, such as the Turners
- ideals of humanitarianism, cosmopolitanism, liberty, justice, and education for all by means of active involvement in the political process

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A great migration of Irish to the United States during 1845-1852, caused by The Potato Famine in Ireland.
Importance:
- Irish immigrants quickly became the nation’s second-largest ethnic group
- Irish was discriminated against for many factors(Religion)(No Irish Need Apply-NINA)
-Irish labor helped fuel the Industrialization Revolution

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The Indian Removal Act, passed by Congress in 1830, was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. It advocated  the removal of Indians, primarily the Cherokee, and other members of the Five Civilized Nations from lands in Georgia and other areas
Importance:
-Resulted in the Trail of Tears
-set the precedent for the fate of all Native American culture in the United States
-Was another attempt to achieve Manifest Destiny.

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A political party created in 1834 in opposition to Jacksonian Democrats.
Importance:
-the party demonstrated the growing divide between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans
-Lead by Henry Clay
-managed to get two men elected president(William Henry Harrison and Zachary Tyler)
-supported Congressional power over executive power, and strove to limit the power of the president

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A bank chartered in 1816 as a second attempt to support of The American System which was originally influence by Alexander Hamilton's First National Bank.
Importance:
- located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- regulate the public credit and to establish a sound and stable national currency
- Was a key factor in the Panic of 1819

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The Democratic-Republican Party was the American political party in the 1790s that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison formed in opposition to the centralizing policies of the Federalist party. It came to power in 1800 and dominated national and state affairs until the 1820s, when it faded away.
Importance:
-opposed the adoption of the United States Constitution and insisted on the Bill of Rights.
-Thomas Jefferson became the first Democratic-Republican President
-oldest political party in the United States

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Purchase of land made by President Jefferson from France in 1803.
Importance:
-Doubled the size of the U. S
-Gave us Control of the Mississippi River
- Helped achieve the goal of Manifest Destiny