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Chapter 7 Section 1 Flashcards

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Webster worked diligently to establish the country’s

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National character

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Webster promoted

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Education, arts, virtuous behavior

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What was Webster’s goal

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Improve the lives of all Americans

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As a result of the cultural advancement

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The nation began to focus on the importance of learning

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Mercy Otis Warren

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  • Believing she has a duty to participate in the revolution
  • Hosted political meetings
  • wrote several patriotic plays encouraging the cause of independence
  • wrote a book titled history of the American Revolution
  • actively encouraged other women to take up scholarly interests
  • cautioned them to balance their intellectual pursuits with responsibilities in the home
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Benjamin Rush

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  • Doctor, scientist, revolutionary
  • signed the Declaration of Independence
  • Represented PA in the continental congress
  • Published numerous books on chemistry and medicine
  • his medical lectures in philly attracted large audiences and began in 1790
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Benjamin Banneker

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  • Born in Maryland to free parents of African American and white ancestry
  • writer, inventor, mathematician, astronomer
  • self educated
  • mapped the nations capital (Washington DC)
  • published the first almanac detailing the motions of the moon, sun, planets, and stars
  • presented the almanac and a letter calling for better treatment of enslaved Africans to Thomas Jefferson
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Charles Wilson Peale

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  • artist more than 1,000 portraits
  • solider in the revolution
  • representative in the PA legislator
  • scientists, inventor
  • father of 17
  • founded the first major museum in the new nation
  • his museum as it was called recognized the value of education girls
  • academies added female departments to help girls become republican women
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Americans in the early 1800s believed

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That women should play only a supporting role in the new nation

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The nation faced the problem of

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A mushrooming population

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___ million people lived in the original 13 states in ____

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2.7

1780

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By ____ the population had grown to an estimated __ million people in 24 states

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1830

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From 1780 to 1830 the population _______ about every 20 years

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Doubled

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14
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The population grew..

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More than twice as fast as that of any other nation

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Played only a minor role in America’s growth

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Immigration

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Fewer _______ came to the US after a law banning the import of slaves took effect in 1808

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Africans

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Slave trader continued to smuggle ______ in the US

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Africans

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18
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By the early 1800s slave trade primarily involved

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Enslaved people sold within the US

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__ percent of the American pop growth cane from an astonishing increase in the number of children born to each family

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90

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In the first half of the 1800s women had nearly

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5 children

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The number of children declined to about 3 children by the

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1870sq

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Infant mortality rate

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130 of every 1,000 children before their first birthday

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Most of the American pop was

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Young

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Median age in 1820

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17

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Women became increasingly

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Cautious about marriage

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Women preferred a

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Long period of getting acquainted with suitors before they committed themselves to marry

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Long period of getting acquainted with suitors before they committed themselves to marry

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Court ship

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Women used courtship to

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Get to know a potential partner and to negotiate the terms of their future life

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For most women getting married was a matter of

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Survival since few decent employment opportunities existed

30
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American women were becoming increasingly interested in

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Religion

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During the colonial era many churches receives

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Financial support form state governments

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The 1790 census showed that only

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About 1:10 Americans belonged to a church

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In the early 1800s the pressures of a changing society led many people to

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Renew their religious faith

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The powerful movement of the early 1800s is know as

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The second great awakening

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The second great awakening began in the backcountry of

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Kentucky and Tennessee

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The second great awakening was an evangelical movement that affected

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Christian denomination

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By 1850, __ and __ had fallen to third and fourth place

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Presbyterians and Congregationalists has

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The fastest growing denominations being

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Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians

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Baptists believed

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Only those who are old enough to understand Christian beliefs should be baptized

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Methodists

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Focuses on a persons personal relationship with god

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Unitarians

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Believed that Jesus was a human messenger of god but not divine himself and they see god as a loving father not a stern judge

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Africans felt unwelcome in

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White dominated churches

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The tensions between whites and blacks increased as African Americans became more

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Assertive about sharing Democratic liberty

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Under the leadership of Richard Allen the black worshippers left and started

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A church of their own

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Africans in other cities soon followed Allen’s example and started

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Their own churches

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Members elected _____ as their first bishop

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Allen

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By 1832 the African Methodist Episcopal Church included

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86 churches with about 8000 members

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The ____ nature of the second great awakening attracted many blacks to the churches of evangelical denominations

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Democratic

49
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Many blacks remained in

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White evangelical churches

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The evangelical church’s could not establish

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Equality or overcome radial prejudice against African Americans

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