Constitution
Supported Constitution, Supported strong Central Goverment
Federalist
Protects Individuals rights
Bill of Rights
Expanded cotton production and the need for more agriculture labor
Cotton gin
worked to end slavery by exposing its hardships
Abolitionist
after the civil war south in financial ruin divided into 5 military districts
reconstruction
Against Constitution, wanted more power given to the state goverments
Anti Federalist
freedom of religion speech press and assembly and petition gives citizens the right to make their own choices
1st Amendment
More efficient ways to produce goods and led to mass production
Interchangeable Parts
encouraged people to be more religious caused social reform leading to reform era
Second Great Awakening
took control after lincolons death punished confederate leaders and southerners for civil war
radical Republicans
decided how many representatives large and small states would send to the bicameral congress
Great Compromise
No unreasonable Searches
4th Amendment
Economy with little government regulation based on supply and demand
Free Enterprise
led by women fought to decrease alcohol consumption
Temperance Movement
1st African American us senator
Hiram Rhodes revels
process from admitting new states to the Union
Northwest Ordinance
No cruel or unusual punishment
8th Amendment
Invented by Samuel Morse used to communicate rapidly over long distance
Telegrapgh
Seneca Falls Convention called for women's suffrage
Women's rights movement
farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt
sharecropping
helps to prevent one branch from being to powerful
Checks and Balances
Right to a fair and speedy trial
8th Amendment
temporarily relieved sectional differences by maintaining the balance between the number of free and slave states in the Union
Missouri Compromise
Worked to improve prison conditions from the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
gave voting rights to African Americans males southerners resisted by creating poll taxes
15th amendment