What Helped Shape America
Published on Nov 26, 2015
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THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
- The United States acquired the Louisiana purchase by buying the territory from France.
- Jefferson did this in hopes to build a strong nation.
- The territory was also on sale.
- Who doesn't like a deal?
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LEWIS AND CLARK
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark both specialized in surviving skills.
- To collect information about the area west of the Mississippi.
- A Native American woman named Sacagawea joined their group as a guide.
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AMERICAN CULTURE
- The second great awakening was a period of religious, artistic, and musical revival
- During this time people had the determination to better their lives and to improve society all together.
- William Cullen Bryant, an American writer from Massachusetts wrote poetry that revolved around the love
- for natural beauty.
- Thomas doughy, was the first successful landscape artist. Doughy also was a leader of the Hudson River school.
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AMERICAN CULTURE
- Stephen C.Foster, was one of the most successful American song writers.
- Architecture was based on the classical styles of ancient Greece and Rome.
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LIFE IN AMERICA
- Southerners lived on small farms that were spread apart.
- Due to the production of cotton a major cash crop the producer grew wealthy and
- Became the south's economic and social leader.
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LIFE AS A SLAVE
- Life as a Slave was difficult.
- A slave usually worked on a plantation or in a house
- The slave works from sunup to sundown.
- While they are closely monitored.
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LIFE IN THE NORTHERN CITIES AND THE WEST
- The bustling cities in the north were made up of the poor and the rich
- Each group developed a wide gap between each other.
- Life in the west was unpredictable due to the
- uncertain climate,limited supplies, and the possible failure in crop production
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