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The 2nd Great Awakening
The religious movement when membership rose rapidly between Baptist and Methodist Congregations. -
Market Revolution
The expansion of the marketplace including the construction of roads, rails, and canals. -
Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. -
Lewis & Clark and the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark traveled from 1803 to 1804 to discover the new land from the Louisiana Purchase. -
War of 1812
Military Conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
Era of Good Feelings
Reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire of unity among Americans after the Napoleonic Wars. -
Missouri Compromise
Granted Missouri statehood as a slave state with the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. -
Andrew Jackson's Presidency
Andrew Jackson won in a recount; removed Indians onto reservations during his presidency. -
The Abolitionist Movement
They attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and end racial segregation and discrimination. -
Westward Expansion
Thomas Jefferson believed that the nation's future depended on the expansion. -
Women's Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention was the first convention to discuss the rights women should have. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations between the "Border Ruffian" (pro-slavery), "Free-Staters" (anti-slavery), and "Southern Yankees". -
Election of 1860
Lincoln defeated southern democrat John C. Breckinridge.