... intelligent, inspired idealists. The optimistic promises of the Second Great Awakening inspired many people to fight against evils. Women's Roles and Rights Starting the nineteenth century, the U.S. was still a man's world. A wife was supposed to immerse herself in her home and subordinate herself to her husband. Women could note vote, could be legally beaten, and could not retain property titles when ... in the United States were young, restless, and energetic. By 1840, the demographic center of the American population map had crossed the Alleghenies. Frontier life was tough and crude ...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated ... links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the continental expa...

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