MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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New political party wanting to spread Democracy. Most of the exponents of expansion included people who were a part of this party.
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women’s rights, temperance, education, vision & hearing impairments, prisons & mental institutions, transcendentalism, abolition
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Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke Sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Prepared a detailed report of firsthand information about the terrible prison system and gave it to the Mass. State Legislature. She campaigned and helped to get the mentally ill their own asylums. She also was able to get the government to stop putting debtors in prison and gave children their own prisons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A complex mix of political, social, and economic factors fueled American expansionist sentiment in the 1840s. Many Americans subscribed to the concept of “Manifest Destiny, ” the belief that Providence preordained the United States to occupy as much land on the continent as possible.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Democrats and Whigs gradually adopted the first party-based customs in the Senate. In the 1830s, for example, members of the two parties began sitting on opposite sides of the Senate Chamber, with the Democrats gathering to the right of the presiding officer and the Whigs to the left.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jacksonian democracy was a 19th century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Political factions or parties began to form during the struggle over ratification of the federal Constitution of 1787. Friction between them increased as attention shifted from the creation of a new federal government to the question of how powerful that federal government would be.