HIS271Y1 Lecture : American Society and Culture in the 19th Century
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nullification and missouri compromise illuminate the sectional divides in american society. Figuring out whether us was going to be based on slave vs. wage labour. Idea that the us can"t be both, incompatible. second party system: van buren believed it would help soften the sectionalism in society. as americans became more politically active, an urgency emerged to define america. one of the central currents was a greater attempt on the part of americans in determining who they were and what they wanted to become. Three events that help shape the assumptions about the united states: massive growth in this period. Population, technology, communications networks: birth of industrialization and urbanization, religious and reform movements. rise in birth rate and decline in death rate. massive influx of immigrants in the 1840s and 50s. This first wave of immigration was predominately i rish and german www. notesolution. com.
