HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Utopia, Expansionism, Internal Improvements

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 105
• Professor: William Francis Collopy

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Lecture 3: oberlin college (oh) yankee state, bastion of abolitionist (want to ge rid of slavery immediately)- they accept men, women, blacks and whites, women and men, blacks and whites. Women and men, fredrick too (cid:862)repeated i(cid:374)juries a(cid:374)d usurpatio(cid:374)s(cid:863) Reform: utopian communities, transcendentalist movement- a philosophy humanity can transcend own humanity and improve sociall(cid:455), etc , ralph waldo emerson- spokesman most closely associated with transcendentalism, most of these communities in the north. Democrats (like republicans: state power (thomas jefferson, choose privilege. Whigs (like federalists: national power, support u. s. bank, high tariffs- usually a rich guy with a mill, Spain was no longer able to manage empire, so places like mexico, columbia gained independence. Land speculators: merchants, professionals, evangelists- mostly catholics, to convert local people. Europeans in trans-mississippi west: britain (canada, oregan, spain (1819 adams-onis treaty, texas- spain : first owned by spain and then mexico, florida- u. s, mexico. Independence (1821: anglos settles in new mexico, anglo settles in texas.