I's Flashcards
“The Impending Crisis in the South”
a book written by a North Carolinian named Hinton Rowan Helper in which he argued that slavery was economically harmful to the South and that it enriched the large planter at the expense of the yeoman farmer
Implied-powers stance/the broad interpretation
the belief by Federalists that the federal government was given all powers that were not expressly denied to it
Indenture system
the system of servitude by which the passages to North America of poor British people were paid by American planters (or by the Virginia Company of London) and who, in exchange, had to work for the planters (or the company) for a specified number of years
Indian Removal Act
an 1830 law passed by Congress and supported by President Jackson that provided for federal enforcement of the removal of all Indian tribes to the west of the Mississippi River
Individualism
the belief in the importance of individuals, on which a movement of reform, beginning in the 1840s, was centered in the Northeast, especially in New England, and also in the South
Industrialization
the rapid development of factories that produced various types of manufactured goods, begun in the United States
Inferior Race
Black people, according to some Southerners who used biblical texts and scientific arguments to justify the enslavement of blacks
Intolerable Acts
the name given by American colonists to the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act
Washington Irving
(1783-1859) the best-known American writer of his time who excelled in telling folk tales and local color stories
Ivy League Schools
Colleges founded primarily for the purpose of training New-Light ministers
