HISTORY EXAM STUDY REVIEW

History Exam Study Review

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History Exam Study Review

Introduction

In the American studies, westward expansion is essential because United States has been constituted by territorial expansion and westward migration successive processes. American Studies rhetoric has been founded in migration histories. There are a number of significant events in the US history that are discussed below.

Discussion

The conflict between religious conscience and secular social goals has impacted both the democratic and religious US experience. It underlay the anguished conscience of New England principles and concern for the way of God with man in the evil and good that characterized the Second Great Awakening Movement in the beginning of the nineteenth century (Cavanaugh, 2009).

Major factors in the increase of religious tolerance and freedom are; there was no division between two or more opposing religious groups, but a fragmented diversity of many small sects. Therefore, group solidarity and spread the conflict cannot be massive, not a religious group had the opportunity to take a dominant political position, due to the circumstances of the settlement, there was no church before settling common to all colonies, and, thus, not created ex-ecclesiastical interests in office, property and institutional prestige; in the nineteenth century, other than intense religious orthodoxy, there was also public apathy to organized religion. Furthermore, the expansion of social and economic opportunities tend to sidetrack the men from religion; The varieties of Protestant dissenters had at first incipient tolerance principle because the believer has direct access to divine truth through the Bible teaching, divergent paths could approach valid religious experience; Settlers were required to provide labor to assist military security, and increase capital gains, and the colonies to accept immigrants of different religions could provide economic benefits tangible. These factors are enough to signify how power considerations, religious organizations, economic interests, and faiths converged in producing religious freedom in U.S.

Reformed spirituality is "worldly' but does not mean to focus on the world rather than God and emphasize on maintaining a balance between the two. In the 16th century, Martin Luther and others started the Protestant Reformation was a schism in Western Christianity. The self-styled efforts "reformers" who protested the rituals, doctrines, and Roman Catholic Church ecclesiastical structure resulted in the creation of new national Protestant churches. The Reformation was impetuous by earlier events in Europe such as the Western Schism, in which, three men asserted to be the Pope and which eroded the faith of people in the Papacy Church governed and the Catholic Church.

Manifest Destiny was the belief of American during 19th century that the America (often in specific ethnic form of "Anglo-Saxon race") was intended to expand across the continent. In the 1840, it was used by Democrats to justify the war with Mexico; the concept was criticized by the Whigs, and fell into abandonment after the second half of the 19th Century (Robinson, 2010).

The geographic location of the West had expanded continuously. Territorial expansion in the name of democracy prescribed an "exceptional" nation destined to occupy the continent from east to west, and this expansion referred "Manifest Destiny". John L. O'Sullivan refers to "our manifest destiny to expand ...