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4930367067CapitalismThey wanted to use the power of republican government to solidify capitalist cultural values and create a dynamic market economy.0
4930374843Panic of 1819This 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
4930376185Business CycleRecurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline.2
4930387321The Market EconomyThe expansion of household production and the market economy reflected innovations in the organization of production and in marketing rather than in technology.3
4930384983Outwork systemBefore factories, Division of labor completed outside of work, where one completes a part of a product at home.4
4946713074TransportationWater 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
4946715059Commonwealth SystemBy 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
4946718081ManumissionA grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.7
4946725919John WoolmanHe 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
4946733942Gabriel Prosser's RebellionA literate black slave that lived in the Richmond area launched a large scale slave revolt. Governor Monroe quickly crushed the rebellion.9
4946737235American Colonization SocietyA 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
4946739974Richard AllenAn African American preacher who helped start the free African society and the African Methodist Episcopal church.11
4946743635African Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe 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
4946750100LiberiaIn 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
4946753972Tallmadge AmendmentSought 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
4946756680Missouri 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
4946759701The Second Great AwakeningA 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
4946764205Camp meeting (revival meeting)On the American frontier thousands of people would pitch tents around a clearing and have an open-air revival meeting.17
4946767963UnitariansBelieve 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
4946770438Shakers1770'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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