Why not make your goals a part of your life so you can start achieving them with daily habits. Matthew Lewis Browne, Better Habits: How to Build Good Habits and Make Them Stick The Importance of Relationships 1.Relationships fulfill your most important need of all love and acceptance 2.Relationships are the place where your greatest joy comes from giving 3.Only through relationships can you give lasting impact to others what they say matters and we actually listen 4.Through relationships you have the people to support you in times of trouble they provide guidance and encouragement. 5.Eventually, relationships are the only things that matter as we grow older people have more regrets regarding people then things. The Expansion of Democracy Essential Question: What issues did Americans debate in the early years of the nation before the Civil War? CSS Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana from Napoleon for $15 million (3 an acre) It doubled the size of the US and added a lot of resources to the nation. It led to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and further expansion across the continent. War of 1812 First official War as a nation Fought against British, Canadians and Indians Causes British attempts to restrict trade Incitement of Indian Attacks Impressment of American sailors 1814 British burned down the White House Ended with Treaty of Ghent CSS Monroe Doctrine, 1823 James Monroe insisted that European nations not interfere in the western hemisphere. No more colonies. No more wars. CSS Extension of Voting Rights Jacksonian Democracy In the early colonies only wealthy white men who went to church could vote. Jacksonian Democracy: early s voting rights were given to all white men regardless of religion or wealth. Power shifted from the super wealthy to a more dynamic process. It changed who got elected. Politics was to this time what sports, tv, movies, and music are today. CSS CSS Indian Removal Act, 1830 called for the voluntary removal of all Indians living on the east side of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) the Supreme Court ruled it illegal but President Jackson did it anyway Trail of Tears, ,000 Indians moved and 4,000 died on the way A Bureau of Indian Affairs was created protect Indian rights and Indian land Draw in Mississippi River, trails used to move natives, shade in the ceded lands and dates of cession, and the new Indian Reservations CSS Manifest Destiny, 1840s A belief that the United States had a divinely-inspired mission to expand, across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. It leads to expansion into Oregon, Texas, and to war with Mexico. The phrase was coined by New York journalist, John Sullivan, in "it was the nation's manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self- government entrusted to us." CSS CSS Second Great Awakening, early 1800s A movement by Charles Finney that re- emphasized personal conversion, especially highly visible signs. Led to social reforms in abolition, temperance, womens suffrage, and more humane treatment of criminals and the insane. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the... most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other... Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. --Thomas Jefferson, 1782 Slavery 1619 First slaves brought to VA st anti-slavery group formed 1808 slave trade banned 1822 Denmark Vesey rebellion 1830 Garrisons Liberator published 1831 Nat Turners Rebellion 1834 attacked Tappan house in NY 1835 Garrison dragged through streets 1837 Rev. Lovejoy killed by mob 1847 Wilmot Proviso 1850 Fugitive Slave Act 1854 Uncle Toms Cabin 1856 John Brown at Pottawatomie 1857 Dred Scot decision 1859 Harpers Ferry th Amendment th Amendment th Amendment 1965 Civil Rights Act CSS Abolitionism, 1830s 1860s This movement tried to end slavery in the United States. They pushed for legal, financial, and social reform. Hardcore members like William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips burned the Constitution in protest. Most early vocal abolitionists were seen as freaks and were beaten, threatened or even killed. CSS Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 This meeting was the beginning of the womens rights movement in America. The leaders were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They wrote a document called the Declaration of Sentiments to explain why women should be equal to men. They borrowed heavily from Jeffersons Declaration of Independence.