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Second Great Awakening
This was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. -
Utopian Communities
These were imagined communites or societies that possessed highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. -
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Slavery
There was less slavery during this time period. The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
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Dorothea Dix
She was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who created the first generation of American mental asylums. -
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
He was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. -
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Edgar Allen Poe
He was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. His writings were about the American Dream. -
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Oregon Trail
This trail could only be traveled by horseback or on foot. -
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Manifest Destiny
This was the belief that God gave the United States the right to territorial expansion. -
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Frederick Douglass
He was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. -
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Walt Whitman
He was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He incorporated the American Dream and transcendentalism into his writings. -
Temperance
This was a time period when total abstinence from alcohol was practiced. -
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Santa Fe Trail
This was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. -
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Harriet Tubman
She was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. -
Abolitionism
This was the act of trying to eradicate slavery. -
Transcendentalism
This was an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. -
Annexation of Texas
This was the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, and was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. -
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The Mexican American War
This was armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. -
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Gold Rush
This began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
Mexican Cession
Two countries signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land, about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic, to the United States for the cost of $15 million. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War.