The document discusses two major topics in early 19th century United States history: U.S. expansion and the Age of Reforms. For U.S. expansion, it describes the territorial acquisitions of Oregon Country, Spanish Florida, and Texas through various means, as well as Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy and the economic and political factors behind Manifest Destiny that led to the Mexican-American War. For the Age of Reforms, it outlines some of the major reform movements of the time period and how moral and social reformers advocated for abolitionism, women's rights, and other causes, with key figures like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton playing important roles and conventions

1. 6-7 paragraphs each
A. U.S. Expansion: Analyze the Monroe Doctrine and American
policymakers’ attempt to exert greater U.S. influence overseas.
Discuss the following U.S. territorial acquisitions through
diplomacy, annexation, and war: Oregon Country, Spanish
Florida, and Texas. Analyze Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal
Policy and the emergence of Cotton Kingdom. What were the
economic, political, and religious factors behind Manifest
Destiny? What were the major causes of the U.S.-Mexican War?
How did the war end? What were the consequences of U.S.
expansionism?
B. Age of Reforms: Discuss some of the major reform
movements in early 19th century America. What did moral and
social reformers advocate? How did the impulse to reform
society result in the rise of abolitionism and the women’s rights
movement? How did these two movements become intertwine?
Explain the influences of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,
William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Angelina
and Sarah Grimké. Discuss the Seneca Falls Convention of
1848. In what ways did these reforms transform U.S. society?