4930367067 | Capitalism | They wanted to use the power of republican government to solidify capitalist cultural values and create a dynamic market economy. | 0 | |
4930374843 | Panic of 1819 | This was the first widespread economic crisis in the United States which brought deflation, depression, bank failures, and unemployment. This set back nationalism to more sectionalism and hurt the poorer class, which gave way to Jacksonian Democracy. | 1 | |
4930376185 | Business Cycle | Recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline. | 2 | |
4930387321 | The Market Economy | The expansion of household production and the market economy reflected innovations in the organization of production and in marketing rather than in technology. | 3 | |
4930384983 | Outwork system | Before factories, Division of labor completed outside of work, where one completes a part of a product at home. | 4 | |
4946713074 | Transportation | Water transportation was the quickest, but most settlements were not near streams. Between 1793 and 1812, the Massachusetts legislature granted charters to more than one hundred private turnpike companies. The erie canal was a huge deal for America, because it opened up many more options for people in the area, and made trading easier. | 5 | |
4946715059 | Commonwealth System | By 1820, state governments had created this republican political economy which funneled state aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare of the state. | 6 | |
4946718081 | Manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. | 7 | |
4946725919 | John Woolman | He was a Quaker preacher and an early abolitionist in the colonial era. He wrote "the color of a man means nothing in matters of right and equality." | 8 | |
4946733942 | Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion | A literate black slave that lived in the Richmond area launched a large scale slave revolt. Governor Monroe quickly crushed the rebellion. | 9 | |
4946737235 | American Colonization Society | A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country. | 10 | |
4946739974 | Richard Allen | An African American preacher who helped start the free African society and the African Methodist Episcopal church. | 11 | |
4946743635 | African Methodist Episcopal Church | The leading Church for African Americans, certified you as "progressed" or "better off" than others- back in the days of Reconstruction, the elite blacks belonged to these more structured churches. | 12 | |
4946750100 | Liberia | In 1820, the American Colonization Society created a colony in West Africa for freed slaves to go. By the 1840s this colony had its own constitution and became and independent nation. | 13 | |
4946753972 | Tallmadge Amendment | Sought to forbid the further introduction of slaves into Missouri and mandated that all children of slave parents born in the state after its admission should be free at the age of 25; failed to pass the Senate. | 14 | |
4946756680 | Missouri Compromise | "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. | 15 | |
4946759701 | The Second Great Awakening | A series of American religious revivals occurring throughout that eastern U.S.; these revivals encouraged a culture performing good deeds in exchange for salvation, and therefore became responsible for an upswing in prison reform, the temperance cause, the feminist movement, and abolitionism. | 16 | |
4946764205 | Camp meeting (revival meeting) | On the American frontier thousands of people would pitch tents around a clearing and have an open-air revival meeting. | 17 | |
4946767963 | Unitarians | Believe in a unitary deity, reject the divinity of Christ, and emphasize the inherent goodness of mankind. Unitarianism, inspired in part by Deism, first caught on in New England at the end of the eighteenth century. | 18 | |
4946770438 | Shakers | 1770's by "Mother" Ann Lee; Utopian group that splintered from the Quakers; believed that they & all other churches had grown too interested in this world & neglectful of their afterlives; prohibited marriage and sexual relationships; practiced celibacy. | 19 |
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