Romanticism. Utopian experiments. Reform movements. Abolitionism. Westward expansion. Mexican War. Sectional conflict.
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Brook Farm (1841), New Harmony (1825), Oneida Community (1848), Shakerism (1774)
Mormons
Reform movements: temperance, public education, penitentiaries and asylums, Indian reservations
Feminism, Seneca Falls Declaration, Quakers
Abolitionism: American Colonization Society (1817), Liberia, William Lloyd Garrison, American Antislavery Society (1833), Frederick Douglass, moral suasion, underground railroad, personal liberty laws, Liberty party (1840), free soil, John Brown
Manifest Destiny
Texas Revolution, joint occupation of Oregon, annexation of Texas (1845), Oregon Trail, compromise over Oregon (1846)
New Mexico and California: Mexican War (1845-1846), Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso (1846), popular sovereignty, Free-Soil party (1846), gold rush (1848), compromise of 1850, Stephen A. Douglas, Ostend Manifesto (1854), Gadsen Purchase (1853), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Republican party (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1856), Charles Sumner, Dred Scott decision (1857), Lecompton constitution (1857), Freeport Doctrine (1858), John Brown
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