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Manifest Destiny
Southern Rural Life
Positives:
- Cotton gin = more cotton
- 50% value of all American exports
- Better soil than North
cont.
-Oregon Trail (1840)
-Wilmot Proviso (1846)
-Compromise of 1850
-Homestead Act of 1862
- Steel Plow
-Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Negatives:
- Plantation owners overspeculated
- Unstable economy
- Cotton production ruined land
Public Education:
- Better tax supported education system
- Horace Mann "Children are the future"
Women's Rights
- Stay at home and subordinate to husband
- Could not vote or retain property when married
- Seneca Falls 1848
cont.
Expansion to Abolition
Negatives
-overpopulation
-large corporations
- low wages
-patronage in gov
-child labor
Urban North
cont.
California
Positives
-more job opportunities
- industrial
-canals
-railroads
-modern conveniences
-Gold Rush
- Chinese immigrants
- 1850s
Oregon
- Oregon Trail
- 50,000 completed the journey
- many hardships
- Polk's slogan
- "Fifty-four Forty or Fight"
Economic Differences
West:
- Fur trappers
- Provided North with foodstuffs
- Farming and fields
- Irish and German immigrants
- Mines
South:
- Fertile soil
- Dependent on cotton
- Slaves
- low tariffs on imported goods
North:
- Diverse industries
- Against slavery
- Mass production
- Factories
- Transportation
Brooklyn James
Anna Rodriguez
P.A
Texas, California, Oregon
and Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
- the idea that...
- superior race
- our duty to civilize the savages
Texas
- american migration after war w/ Spain
- 1821
-Mexico encouraged it
- Annexation
- south favored/ north against
- Polk's immediate annexation triggers Mexico
Social Reforms
Temperance
- Drinking:
1. decreased worker efficiency
2. threatened family structure
- Neal S. Dow "Father of Prohibition"
Successful Expansion
- Oregon Treaty
- Independent Treasury Tariff of 1846
- Iowa & Wisconsin
-Louisiana Purchase (1803)
-War of 1812
-Missouri Compromise (1820)
-Erie Canal (1825)
-Indian Removale Act (1830)
-Trail of Tears (1838)
Asylums & Prisons
- Abolished debtor's prison
- Criminal codes softened
- Capital offenses reduced
- Dorothy Dix
Abolitionist's Strategies
-William Garrison
-The Liberator
-New England Anti Slavery Society
- constitution- pro slavery
-Harriet Stowe
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
Polk's Presidency
- Rio Grande
- Mexican American War
- Texas
cont.
-Fredrick Douglas
-escaped slavery
- The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick douglass
-John Brown
-Harper's Ferry (1859)