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Manifest Destiny was the belief of American settlers to expand across the continent and settle to create their own societies. Interchangeable parts, the Lowell System, nativism, the American Colonization Society, the Second Great Awakening, and Romanticism all were possible because of American settlers exploring west of the Mississippi. The Dred Scott Decision shaped the lives of many African Americans. Popular Sovereignty, the Know Nothing Party, the Mormons, Lincoln Douglas Debates, and John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry, resulted in some kind of political movement to help shape America.
Sectionalism was very popular in the United States. It is when people support their region or area of a country rather than the country as a whole. The Slave Power Conspiracy was where a small group of rich white southerners gained control of the local government and ruled. Texas Independence and Stephen Austin had major impacts on the sate of Texas. The Mexican American War was associated with sectionalism. The Erie Canal contributed to the local economy. Eli Whitney, John Brown, Stephen Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, James Fennimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth C. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Jospeh Smith, all had major contributions and impacts on American society. Laws like the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Fugitive Slave Law all affected the South because of the constant issue in slavery.