The Economy
This is another term for the right to vote.
What is suffrage or franchise?
These are ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.
What are utopias or communal societies?
What is the cotton gin?
This author was a part of the transcendentalist movement, wrote "Walden: Or Life in the Woods" after spending two years in a cabin in the woods
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This was a cheaper source of labor and provided workers with boarding rooms, enforced strict curfews, evening lectures and cultural activities, prohibited alcoholic beverages and required regular church attendance.
What is the Lowell Mill or Lowell System?
Area of land between GA and LA known for its rich, dark, fertile soil.
What is the Black Belt?
This Supreme Court Case upheld the sanctity of contract and property rights.
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
This utopia community embraced "complex marriages" or "communal marriages" and turned to perfectionism in a belief that people could aspire to a sinless perfection in their earthly lives.
What is the Oneida community?
This compromise allowed the South to maintain higher population numbers so more seats in The House of Representatives. It lead to additional anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
This communal society had a following of around 6 thousand members, but due to their strict belief in celibacy and noninteraction between men and women, they ultimately died out.
Who are the Shakers?
Henry Clay's American System called for these 3 things
what are protective tariffs, a federal bank, federal funds for infrastructure?
This is a belief that individuals could be remade by discovering their original relation with Nature and entering into a mystical union with the currents of Universal Being. Human perfectibility.
What is transcendentalism?
John C. Calhoun gave a fiery speech in congress in favor of slavery, stating it was not a necessary evil but
What is a positive good?
This was the idea that a woman's role was at home taking care of the children and making sure her home was a place of rest and peace for her husband.
What is The Cult of Domesticity
Spurred by the change in the economy due to the Market Revolution, this was made up of commercial farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, doctors, lawyers, and traders mostly in the North-Eastern portion of the country.
What is the middle class?
Jackson simply chose to ignore this decision because he wanted to provide more land to white settlers.
This reform movement was supported by Christians of all colors, headed by strong leaders such as Fredrick Douglas and William Loyd Garrison, and called for the immediate emancipation of slaves.
What is abolitionism?
Because of this, South Carolina issued a nullification doctrine and said they would succeed if the fed government attempted to force them to comply.
The Tariff of Abominations
This organization believed in the abolition of slavery and the transportation of former slaves back to Africa. They established an African American settlement in Monrovia, Liberia
What is the American Colonization Society