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Changes in US Reforms and Moving West Texas, Mexican War, and Slavery.

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1 Changes in US Reforms and Moving West Texas, Mexican War, and Slavery

2 Economy & Regional Differences

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10 routine - long hours - strict

11 Lowell Textile Mills dominated New England

12 country girls moving to work in mills and make $

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21 Social Movts

22 Independent Thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson founder of the Transcendental Mov’t

23 Independent Thinkers Henry David Thoreau founder of the Transcendental Mov’t

24 Independent Thinkers Henry David Thoreau Martin Luther King Ralph Waldo Emerson + =

25 2nd Great Awakening Religious Revivals- each person should seek their own salvation People should change themselves and society

26 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

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28 William Lloyd GarrisonFrederick 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

29 Women’s Changing Role in Society

30 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

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32 1. Americans move to the Mexican land called Tejas (Texas) 2. 1836 Eventually the American’s will want independence from the Mexican gov’t 3. Texas will become its own country for 9 years 4. 1846-1848 We fight a war with Mexico

33 Why Settlers Moved to Mexico and the Mexican territory of Texas

34 1836 Eventually the American’s will want independence from the Mexican gov’t

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37 1836 Texas becomes it’s own country for 9 years

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40 1846-1848 We fight a war with Mexico and then we allow Texas to enter the Union as a state Mexican American War

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45 America wins the Mexican American War 1846-1848

46 Americans Move West

47 1862 Homestead Act: 160 acres- free! if you live on it for 5 years and improve it. The race was on!

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

49 Adams -Onis Treaty

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51 That Brings the Slavery Issue To Light

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