Manifest Destiny Timeline

1. Manifest Destiny Timeline • On the back of your Manifest Destiny map worksheet, create a mini-timeline of the major events that took place during our expansion • There should be 4 major events with smaller events that should be mentioned with these.

2. Chap. 3, Sec. 4 MARKET REVOLUTION

3. Market Revolution —citizens buying and selling goods rather than making them for themselves • Free enterprise system-freedom of business to operate competitively for profit without gov,t interference • Promoted huge economic growth • Entrepreneurs-businessmen using own money to invest in new businesses; risky

4. Inventions and Improvements • New forms of communication and transpor- tation made new products more available and affordable to all Americans • Made America’s different regions more dependent on one another. • Northeast became industrialized center of the United States; farmers moved west to farm the fertile soil of Midwest using new technology

5. Steam engine-James Watt 1763 Railroads -1830’s Steamboats-1830’s

6. Beginnings of Trade Unions • As industry grew, working conditions worsened • Employees strike-(work stoppage to force employers to meet demands-better wages, shorter working hours, etc.) • National Trades’ Union -1834, several trade unions joined together to expand power

7. Writing a List of Demands • After reading the section on page 142, “The Lowell Textile Mills” you will put together a list of demands. • Lists should be from the point of view from women mill workers in the 1830s. • Demands should be reasonable and written in a professional tone. Lists will be read to class.

8. Chapter 3, Sec. 5-Reforming American Society • Abolition-movement to abolish slavery became most important of 19th century • Origins: • Second Great Awakening -1790’s-1830,s; widespread Christian movement to awaken religious sentiments; revival meeting was at the center of this movement • Unitarianism-belief in revitalizing individual’s faith but through reason as path to perfection, not emotion

9. Trancendentalism • Philosophy emphasizing truth could be discovered by observing nature and relating it to one’s own emotions and spiritual experiences Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Women and Reform • Women active in all the important reform movements of the 19th century-abolition, temperance (prohibit drinking of alchohol), treatment for the mentally ill, and prison reform • Significance: encouraged growth of women’s movement because so many opportunities exposed women to the world outside the home

11. Seneca Falls Convention Former slave, she spoke at the convention: “I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no Man could head me…I Coud work as much and eat As much as a man-when I Could get it-and bear the Lash as well. Ain’t I a woman? I have born 13 children and seen most all sold off to slavery, And when I cried out With my mother’s grief None but Jesus heard me. Ain’t I a Woman?” Ardent abolitionist who set up the convention-called for a woman’s right to vote (1848)

12. Abolition-answer to life under slavery • By 1830, most slaves spoke English and were born in America • Most were laborers (few were house ser- vants) who worked very hard and were oppressed • Turner’s Rebellion -1831, house slave Nat Turner led a slave rebellion; killed 60 whites before captured and hung

13. Garrison and Douglas-abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison-published The “Liberator” ; an anti-slavery Newspaper ; should use all means, Even violence, to end slavery imme- diately Frederick Douglass-wanted to End slavery peacefully, published Own newspaper, “The North Star”