The
Westerns Frontier
Mythology
1803-1853 expanded to present boundaries
Frontier defined – a zone of cultural competition
Motives
Escape
civilization and debt
Profit
Fur
trade
Squatters
Proponents
of statehood
Most
radical Jeffersonians
Settlements
Recreate
the east
Ohio Company
Empire
of System
Frontier Culture
Transplanting
of traditions
Boxing
Gouging and
plucking
Rough and
tumble
Maximum
disfigurement
Second Great Awakening
Protestant
Women
Kentucky
Western NY
Charles Finney
“Father
of modern revivalism”
“God
has made man a moral free agent.”
Female Charitable
Society of Salem, MA – helped orphans
Moral Reform
Society - against prostitution
Temperance
Renewed Sectionalism
Compromise of
1820
Missouri
- 1819
LA
territory
Slavery?
Senator
Rufus King, NY
Henry Clay,
The Great Compromiser
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