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Whaling Industry New Bedford
During the industrial revolution, hunting and killing whales were critical in supplying products for oil lamps, candle wax, detergents, and meat.
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More land
Europeans had the idea that they had the right to claim as many countries and land that they could find.
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Settlers
As more and more immigrants arrived in the United States, there was a need to expand.
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Factories in the North
The industrial revolution began in England and then expanded to the New England states around 1812.
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Southern Plantations
The industrial revolution began in England and then expanded to the New England states around 1812.
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Seaman
During the 1800s, the life of those at sea was harsh and difficult. Many of the sailors lived on ships that had cramped quarters, bad food, low pay, and was filled with disease.
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Meriwether Lewis
Most famously known as part of the two-man team, including William Clark and the Native Indian Sacagawea that was assigned by Thomas Jefferson
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William Clark
William Clark is most noted for being part of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition of the 1800s.
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York
York, Pennsylvania, was named after the city of York, England, and was a little known participant in American history that was an important one.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is considered to be one of the most prolific of American poets and writers.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and writer. His works talked about many subjects, including overcoming hardships and life in America before and after the Civil War.
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is considered to be one of the most influential American poets.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott is an American writer that created works of fiction for young people. Alcott focused on the issues of her time and was an advocate for a women’s right to vote.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American author and poet who was heavily influenced by his family’s history in the clergy of the Unitarian Church.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a successful American author who was known for both his short stories and novels.
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner became known as the leader of the Southampton County, Virginia, slave rebellions in 1831.
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Joseph Smith
One of the most unusual stories in American history is that of Joseph Smith. He was a religious leader that was called an American prophet.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain is the pseudonym for writer Samuel Clemens. He is a noted adventurer and writer in America that conveyed wit, humor, and moral lessons in his works.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author that was most well-known for her social activism and anti-slavery book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a chemist and a microbiologist who developed a process of pasteurization that we use today in many of our foods.
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The Transcendentalists
The Transcendentalists also referred to as American Transcendentalism
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The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening in the United States took place from the later decade of the 18th century
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Nature Writing and Learning
Nature writing and learning went hand-in-hand in the United States from 1800 to 1850.
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Gospel Music
Gospel music in the United States from 1800 to 1850 flourished because of the Second Great Awakening.
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Folk Music
Folk music in the United States from 1800 to 1850 had a unique sound.
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The Romantic Period
The Romantic Period in the United States was from 1800 to 1850.
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Europe’s influence
Europe’s influence in the United States from 1800 to 1850 has many faces and attitudes.
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Cultural clashes
There were numerous cultural clashes in the United States from 1800 to 1850.
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Socioeconomic classes
Socioeconomic classes in the United States during 1800 to 1850 are best understood…
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Education
Several movements began in the United States from 1800 to 1850 including education.
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Religious interest
The founders of the United States made clear statements in the separation of church and state.
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The Mormons
The history of the Mormons is one of the most unusual in the American saga.
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Andrew Jackson’s War Against the Indians
As Europeans set out on explorations and discovered new worlds they maintained that any of the people that they came into contact were barbarians.
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Choctaw Exile
The Choctaw were one of many Native Indian tribes that were affected by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Cherokee Trail of Tears
There are many events in American history that are the cause for shame.
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The Plains Indians and the Railroad
The invention and expansion of the railroad changed the American landscape and economy in revolutionary ways.
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The Question of Slavery
Slavery in America was accepted as part of life as colonists made their way from many European countries.
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Freedom in the North?
During the 1800s, slavery was widely accepted in the southern states of America.
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Public Education
Education in the thirteen colonies was completely dependent upon where you lived, gender, race, and social class.
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Slave Children
It’s estimated that between the 16th and 18th centuries slave traders brought around twelve million Africans to the New World that we now know as America.
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Asian Immigrants in California
A majority of the Asian immigrants that arrived in San Francisco, California in the 1800s were Chinese.
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Manifest Destiny
The idea of Manifest Destiny was carried forward from early European explorers.
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New lands/Thomas Jefferson
The Europeans that set out to explore new worlds believed that they were preordained or given instructions by God.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the size of the United States and included in the east.
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition is considered to be one of the most important exploration events in U.S. history
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The Beginning
President Jefferson gave Meriwether Lewis and William Clark the power to recruit people for their “Corps of Volunteers” to head out.
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Setting Out
Unlike today, all of the supplies and equipment that Lewis and Clark needed wasn’t conveniently located in one location.
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Fort Mandan
The Lewis and Clark expedition started looking for a place to build a winter shelter.
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Headed West
During the time that the Lewis and Clark expedition spent at Fort Mandan, they came across a French trapper named Touissant Charbonneau
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Crossing the Rocky Mountains
When the Lewis and Clark expedition came across the Rocky Mountains, they realized that this was going to be one of the most difficult parts of their journey.
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On to Oregon
Even with the help of the Clatsop Native Indian tribe, the expedition found themselves fairly exhausted and bedraggled
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Going Home
After a long and horrible winter at Clatsop, the Lewis and Clark expedition gathered everything that they would need and began their return trek home on March 23, 1806.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 is often called the Forgotten War or the “Second War of Independence.”
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Oregon Trail
As settlers migrated to the west, they established specific routes that would allow them the best course to travel.
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Goldrush!
If there is anything that changed the course of the population of the western United States, it was the Gold Rush of 1848 to 1855.
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Mexican American War
The southwestern area of the United States was once owned by Spain.
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Battle of the Alamo
Fights broke out as Texas tried to declare its independence from Mexico. One of the most famous was the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
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Transportation: the Great Railways
The earliest known rail transport began with horses or mules pulling carts and carriages along rails.
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Advances in food and medicine
In the 1800s, there were more people to feed and look after.
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