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Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

• the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America

Question 2

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 2

• The Cult of True Womanhood
• a system of cultural beliefs governing gender roles of upper- and middle-class Americans in the 19th century
• “women at setting a table picture”
  also: “domestic scene in a home”

Question 3

Yeoman Farmer

Answer 3

• 18th and 19th centuries non-slaveholding, small landowning, family farmers