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The Louisiana Purchase
Territory to the east of the U.S.A, the Mississippi River and Missouri rivers flowed through the territory making the land very valuable. During Jefferson's presidency the increased demand for a railroad and the want to increase sales through the land, led Jefferson to seek New Orleans and a strip of land leading to Florida's port. Ministers were sent with $10 million to negotiate with France, in search of war funds the French offered all of the Louisiana Territory for $15 million. -
The Missouri Compromise
Northern states held slight majority in the house, but 11 free states and 11 slave states kept balanced between he two groups. North attempt to pass the Tallmadge Amendment would lead to the decline of slavery in Missouri. The Missouri Compromise would admit Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and prevent the creation of slaves states north of the latitude line 36° 30' in the rest of the Louisiana territory. -
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The Temperance Movement
An example of one of the ideas created during The Second Great Awakening. In the movement Protestant's and recovering alcoholics argued that alcohol was a diseases that caused social ills. By 1840, the Temperance Societies had a total of more than a million members, showing a successful community created during the the Second Great Awakening. -
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The Second Great Awakening
The ideas of the Awakening were a reaction against the rationalism that had been the fashion during the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. Calvinist teachings of original sin and predestination had been rejected by believers in more liberal and forgiving doctrines. The Second Great Awakening began among educated people such as Reverend Dwight, president of Yale College in Connecticut. Dwight's campus revivals motivated a generation of young men to become evangelical preachers. -
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Politics of the Common Man
Politics began to shift from the wealthy minority to the middle and lower class majority. This was caused by by new suffrage laws, changes in political parties, improved education, and increases in newspaper circulation. The newly admitted states of 1824 would begin to allow white men to vote and run for office, ignoring their religious and social standings. -
The Indian Removal Act
Jackson sympathized with the land hungry citizens who wanted to take the land from the Native Americans. He believed the most humane way to go about this was to force the Natives out of their land. In 1838, after Jackson's Presidency, the U.S army forced 15,000 Cherokee, with the trail of tears killing 4,000 of them.