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41 Cards in this Set

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“Ordered liberty”
Idea that traditional elites should run America, not common people
Patricians
Traditional elites in a society
The Franchise
The right to vote
Poll tax
Tax paid to vote
Popular suffrage
Idea that many, not just elites, have right to vote
Patriarchy
Male-dominated society
Sentimentalism
related to European Romanticism it celebrated feelings, emotions and an appreciation of nature
Companionate marriage
Republican ideal that husbands and wives were equal in a marriage
Republican Motherhood
Idea that women were very important in American because they shaped the egalitarian, republican attitudes of children
Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia physician and author of Thoughts on Female Education (1787) who promoted female education in order that women become Republican wives and mothers
Primogeniture
English custom that property pass to eldest son
“Republic of letters”
Idea proposed by textbook author Caleb Bingham that supported equal access for men and women to education and encouraged the establishment of schools
“Parson” Weems”
Author of the textbook The Life and Times of George Washington which taught Republican virtues like honesty and hard work
Noah Webster
Author of Dissertation on the English Language (1789) and the “blue-backed speller” which introduced American spelling and grammatical conventions to create unique republican English
Washington Irving
Best-known American author of early 1800s whose Rip Van Winkle won wide acclaim
Demagogues
People who use emotion and misleading language to try to convince people to support them
American Colonization Society
Founded in 1817 by President Monroe and others it promoted idea of emancipation followed by emigration to Africa because they didn’t believe whites and blacks could live together
Internal Slave Trade
Slave trade within the US
Labor by the task
Right given to some slaves to complete a task and be done with work for the day
Benjamin Banneker
Free black mathematician and surveyor who helped survey Washington D.C.
Joshua Johnston
Free black portrait painter
Robert Sheridan
Free black merchant and businessman
Free African Societies
Northern black mutual-benefit organizations
Upper South
Southern slave states that bordered free Northern states
Manumission
Freedom for slaves
“Positive good”
Idea that slavery wasn’t a “necessary evil” but a good institution that benefited everyone
Henry Clay
KY Congressman who proposed the Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Clay’s plan to allow Maine to enter union as free state & Missouri as slave state which would keep the balance in the senate between free and slave states
Second Great Awakening
Religious revival movement of late 1700s –early 1800s which preached equality in emotionally charged sermons and was especially popular in the west. Many were inspired by it to bring about social and political reforms.
Unitarianism
New England church that stressed reason
Samuel Hopkins
“Religious benevolence” minister who preached importance of charity
Reverend Ezra Stiles Ely
Preacher who called for America to become an evangelical Christian nation in his famous sermon “The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers”
Mother Ann Lee
Founder of Shaker sect
Jemima Wilkinson
Religious leader who called herself Publick Universal Friend who combined Calvinistic simplicity with Quaker pacifism and abolitionism
Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge
NH women’s religious, social reform movement
Society for the Relief of Poor
Widows
New York City women’s religious, social reform movement
Society for the Free Instruction
Of African Females
Philadelphia Quaker women’s religious, social reform movement
Emma Willard
Opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in VT in 1814