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| 7449259218 | neomercantilism | a system of government that assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation, especially in the Northeast. This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange Instead of mother country and country, it's government/big company and little company. | 0 | |
| 7449259219 | Panic of 1819 | first major economic crisis of the United States. Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agriculture prices, and as farmers' income declined, they could not pay debts owned to stores and banks, many of which went bankrupt | 1 | |
| 7449259220 | Commonwealth System | the republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820, whereby states funneled aid to provide businesses whose projects would improve the genera welfare | 2 | |
| 7449259221 | sentimentalism | a way of experiencing the world that emphasized emotions and a sensuous appreciation of God, nature, and people. Part of the romantic movement, it spread to the United States from Europe in the late 18th century young men and women chose to marry based on feeling rather than if interest | 3 | |
| 7449259222 | companionate marriage | a marriage based on the republican values of equality and mutual respect. Although husbands in these marriages retained significant legal power, they increasingly came to see their wives as loving partners rather than as inferiors or dependents | 4 | |
| 7449259223 | republican motherhood | the idea that the primary political role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty and republican virtue in their children and mild them into exemplary republican citizens and they shouldn't be concerned with voting and whatnot | 5 | |
| 7449259224 | manumission | Allowed owners to free slaves A law enacted by the VA assembly in 1782 that allowed individual owners to free their slaves (who had remained loyal during the revolutionary war and who had fought for the cause). Within the decade planters had released tens of thousands of slaves (C) | 6 | |
| 7449259225 | American Colonization Society | a society founded by Henry Clay and other prominent citizens in 1817. The society argued that slaves had to be freed and then resettled, in Africa or elsewhere Freed slaves, then shipped them to Africa | 7 | |
| 7449259226 | Missouri Compromise | Henry clay's series of political agreements to preserve the balance between the north and the south Created by Henry Clay. Allowed for the line of slavery to be set, with all states south of Missouri to be slave states, while northern states could ban slavery. Admitted Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. | 8 | |
| 7449259227 | established church | a church given privileged legal status by the government. Historically, such established churches in Europe and America were supported by public taxes and were often the only legally permitted religious institution | 9 | |
| 7449259228 | voluntarism | the funding of churches by their members. It allowed the laity to control the clergy, while also supporting the republican principle of self government | 10 | |
| 7449259229 | "unchurched" | irreligious americans, who probably constituted a majority of the population in 1800. evangelical methodist and baptist churches were by far the most successful institutions in attracting new members from the unchurched a term describing those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious and who often adopt aspects of various religious traditions | 11 | |
| 7449259230 | Second Great Awakening | unprecedented religious revival that swept the nation between 1790 and 1850; it also proved to be a major impetus for the reform movements of the era A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. | 12 | |
| 7449259231 | John Jacob Astor | American fur trader and financier, he founded the fur-trading post of Astoria and the American fur company |  | 13 |
| 7449259232 | Benjamin Rush | A pioneering Philadelphia physician that warned that lack of adequate sanitation programs was the cause of the frequent disease and epidemics of the time period. He advocated for the new "scientific" techniques of bleeding and purging which led to the death of many of his patients |  | 14 |
| 7449259233 | Henry Clay | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) Senator from Kentucky called the Great Compromiser because he was credited the Missouri Compromise and other major political compromises between 1820 - 1850. |  | 15 |
| 7449259234 | Richard Allen | an african american preacher who helped start the free african society and the african methodist episcopal church |  | 16 |
| 7449259235 | Lyman Beecher | American clergyman, he disapproved of the style of preaching of the Great Awakening ministers. He served as president of the Lane Theological Seminary and supported female higher education. Beecher believed people did have national tendancy to sin, however, he did not believe in predestination. |  | 17 |
| 7449259236 | Emma Willard | first American female advocate of higher education for women. Willard opened the Middlebury Female Seminary. She also founded schools in New York for girls designed to prepare women for college.. |  | 18 |
| 7449267294 | demographic transition | the sharp decline in birthrate in the United States beginning in the 1790's that was caused by changes in cultural behavior, including the use of birth control. the migration of thousands of young men to the trans-Appalachian west was also a factor in this decline. | 19 | |
| 7449353813 | herrenvolk republic | a republic based on the principle of rule by a master race. to preserve their privileged social position, southern leaders restricted individual liberty and legal equality to whites | 20 |
