Be prepared to describe each of the following and to analyze the ways in which each of the following was significant:

• Transportation Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Pro-business legislation & court decisions
• Workingmen’s Parties
• Inventions
• Second Great Awakening
• Liberal religion: unitarianism, deism, transcendentalism
• Denominational diversity
• Women’s rights movement; women reformers
• Utopian societies
• Alcohol reform
• Education reform
• Immigration/nativism
• Abolitionism (most important reform)
• Manifest Destiny and land acquisitions in the 1840s
• Polk’s four point plan
• The Mexican War (causes and effects)