At the end of the 1820s and into the 1830s, The Second Great Awakening, a religious movement based off evangelism, changed the approach of expansionism. ... Therefore, this Second Great Awakening inclined American Protestants to view Catholic nations south and west of their country as "a distinct challenge to their religion and security " (Greenberg 14). ...
Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
A nation born from the chains of British control, America faced a continuing problem; to preserve and develop a strong united nation. The country was divided in many aspects of life during the early to mid-1800s (pre-civil war era). The struggle for the equality between races, especially blacks and ...
The era of 1800 is marked as a turning point in The US history as many important events took place in that time. The role played by the President Abraham Lincoln in that era is phenomenal and the changes brought by the dynamics of that era were cardinal. From the first peaceful transfer of power in ...
The Right to be Free Freedom. Webster's dictionary defines freedom as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action as well as liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. American history has been, in essence, a huge struggle for those very principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Qtd. In Sime and McCambridge, 225). ...
