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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Uprising of slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Summer of 1831. Death of 55 white people.
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Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy
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Most carefully devised slave revolt, Rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and 75 conspirators were executed.
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Transportation Revolution
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Dramatic improvements in transportation that stimulated economic growth after 1815 by expanding the range of travel and reducing the time and cost of moving goods and people.
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Pro-slavery Arguments
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People who were pro-slavery thought that the slaves were content with there living conditions and there stance in society. They imagined a society blessed by class and racial harmony.
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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Supreme Court decision of 1824 involving coastal commerce that overturned a steamboat monopoly granted by the state of New York on the grounds that only Congress had the authority to regulate interstate commerce.
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Waltham System
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During the industrialization of the early nineteenth century, the recruitment of unmarried young women for employment in factories.
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Temperance
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Reform movement originating in the 1820's that south to eliminate the consumption of alcohol.
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Workingmen's Movement
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Associations of urban workers who began the campaigning in the 1820's for free public education and a ten-hour workday.
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Seneca Falls Convention
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The first convention for women's equality in the legal rights, held in upstate New York in 1848.
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Slave Codes
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A series of laws passed mainly in the southern colonies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.
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