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Reform & Westward Expansion

Explore the democratization and reform trends in the US by 1850, including voting rights expansion, religious revivals, abolitionist movements, women's rights struggles, and westward expansion conflicts. Discover key figures and events shaping American society at the time.

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Reform & Westward Expansion

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  1. Reform & Westward Expansion Chapter 2 Section 1

  2. Focus Question • What trends in democratization and reform were taking shape in the US by 1850?

  3. More Americans can vote Property restrictions removed Race/Gender restrictions still apply Andrew Jackson becomes President Trail of Tears Democracy & The Age of Jackson

  4. Religious Revivals 1820s Second Great Awakening: religious movement that swept America People could and should work to achieve moral perfection Religion and Social Reform

  5. Anyone could be saved Baptists, Methodists, Latter-day Saints Religion and Social Reform

  6. Dorothea Dix Prison reform Horace Mann Improvement in public schools Transcendentalism: taught the importance of following one’s conscience “wall of separation” between church and state Thomas Jefferson Govt’s job to encourage public morality? Minority religions persecuted Mormons fled to Utah Improvements and Conflicts

  7. The Antislavery Movement • Abolitionists: sought gradual or immediate end to slavery on the grounds that it was morally wrong • Conflict → most Americans believed prosperity rested on slavery • Slave revolts • 200 significant revolts (ex: Nat Turner) • Led to harsher treatment of slaves

  8. Frederick Douglass Escaped slave and active abolotionist Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad: network of abolitionists who led enslaved people to freedom William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator Call for Freedom

  9. Women’s Rights • Women could not • Hold office • Serve on a jury • Own property in their own name • Gain custody of kids after divorce • Earn same wages as men • Earn a college degree in most schools • Vote

  10. Fight for temperance Fight for abolitionism Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Seneca Falls Convention 1848 Declaration of Sentiments Ultimate Goal: women’s suffrage Women Organize

  11. Conflicts with Mexico Mexican-American War→ annexation of Texas Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo set boundaries for Texas Manifest Destiny Continues

  12. The Golden State Gold discovered in CA Forty-niners and the gold rush Western expansionism inflames conflict over slavery New territories = free or slaveholding? Manifest Destiny Continues

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