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