The idea that women after the American Revolution were charged with educating and raising good republican citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood?
100
This religious group was known during the American Revolution to be anti-slavery and to allow women to speak at their meetings.
Who are Quakers?
100
In this 1854 Act, popular sovereignty was established to allow people living there to decide if slavery was to be permitted there.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
100
This famous case stated that the Supreme Court had the power to determine the constitutionality of Congressional acts.
What is Marbury v Madison?
200
This document called for increased rights for women and was written at the Seneca Falls Convention?
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
200
Their core belief was that society is corrupt but that humans can find truth in nature and in themselves.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
200
This political party sought to exclude slavery from US territories.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This case stated that slaves are property that can be taken into any territory and they are not allowed to sue as they are property.
What is the Dred Scott v Sanford Case?
300
This system of working in textile mills relied on young, unmarried women from rural New England.
What is the Lowell System?
300
This religious thought that many Founding Fathers believed in stated that God created a universe governed by natural law. Also known as the Clockwork God.
What is Deism?
300
The primary impact of this was to strengthen the moral cause of the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
In these cases, the Supreme Court rules in the Cherokees favor but Jackson ignores them to remove the Native Americans anyway.
What are the Worchester v Georgia and Cherokee Nation v Georgia cases?
400
According to this principle, women had to be educated to be good mothers.
What is republican motherhood?
400
The "burned over district" of New York was called that due to the intense religious zeal created during the
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of this century.
What is the 17th Century? (Or 1600s)
400
Ruled that unions are legal organizations that can strike.
What is Commonwealth v Hunt?
500
The first women's conference was held at, and is named after, this location.
What is Seneca Falls?
500
These two people challenged Puritan ministers in pre-Revolution America. They would then create their own colonies. (Either one)
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
500
The American Antislavery Society split into factions due to this man's advocacy of women's rights.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
Noted for John Marshall's assertion of Supreme Court power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal matters.