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| 1829 discovery of Gold brought people wanting to go toward it. Jackson wanted ot move the indians out of the way Importnat? |
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| Written by Fredrick Turner, it was a thought that the frontier helped America become "American". It was the thought that the frontier was not "Dead" and pushing further west was a good thing "important"? |
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| Paternalism is a thought that the father is the highest heirarchy in the family. This is a thought that has made a significant impact on the way that we run our country today and in the past. Woman take their husbands names, and woman used to be unable to vote or own their own land. Today, woman still make less money then men on average as the aftermath of this thought. |
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| Democratization of Politics |
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| during the early 1800s, appointed offices started to become elected and our country slowly started to become more like how we know it today. Fredrick Turner also gives credit to this change (from what people used to do in England) to moving further west and becoming our own people |
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| Basically these are "gender roles". They are the idea that woman's only place in the world is in the kitchen or with the children. This is significant because (read cult of true womanhood) |
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| these are people who believed in freeing the slaves. Many were northeners who had no economic reason to keep slavery around. This marked a period of a new train of thought. Many up north were more concerned with industrial things rather than |
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| the thought that immigration into the united states is bad. It was a thought in the 1800s that catholics immigrating would cause the pope to override American government and that the Irish and German drinking was too heavy. This was significant because it is an idea that has lasted into modern day. Still, we make it very difficult for people to immigrate here. |
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| This was the man that took homeless street children in New York (children such as ragged dick) and found them foster homes or adoptive parents out west. |
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| The mexican war happened from 1846 to 1848, because of this America aquired new territory. This upset the balance between slave states and non-slave states. The compromise was that California would be free, Utah and New Mexico would be popular sovergnty and Washington would have no slaves, but there would be tougher fugitive laws. |
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| John Brown was a very extreme, white, abolitionist. he lead a 1859 raid on the federal armory at harpes ferry, VA and killed over 10 people. He was tried for treason and hung. what he did was important because it helped along the American Civil war. |
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