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What happened to the American banking system after the charter of the First Bank of the United States expired in 1811? |
States chartered a growing number of banks to provide capital. |
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What percentage of men attended college in the early republic? |
Less than 1 percent |
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The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery where? |
In the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30´ |
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During the Second Great Awakening, many evangelical ministers copied the "practical preaching" techniques of what eighteenth-century revivalist? |
George Whitefield |
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What entity did Congress create in 1816? |
The Second Bank of the United States |
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How did republicanism transform parenting for some couples? |
It encouraged them to teach self-control, responsibility, education, and independence to their children. |
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Based on the map, how many states in the union had eliminated slavery by the year 1800? |
Five; the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts |
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Based on your reading and this map, where were religious revivals most prominent? |
In newly settled western regions |
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What was the intention of the First Bank of the United States? |
To stimulate economic growth by granting commercial credit |
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What widespread aspect of the early republic contradicted the ideology of democratic republicanism? |
Restrictions on voting rights |
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What phrase did slave planters like Thomas Jefferson use to justify slavery in the late 1700s? |
"Necessary evil" |
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Why did Cane Ridge in Kentucky attract almost 20,000 people in 1801? |
They went to attend a nine-day revivalist camp meeting. |
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What issue was a cause of the Panic of 1819? |
Poorly managed state bank |
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What did Noah Webster argue for in the early nineteenth century? |
An end to American dependence on foreign influences in the language |
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What was the goal of the American Colonization Society? |
To emancipate slaves and send African Americans to Africa |
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Why did women begin to displace men as public-school teachers beginning in the 1820s? |
They accepted lower pay than most men. |
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Where did most American manufacturing in the early nineteenth century take place? |
At home |
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Why did education in the United States improve starting in the 1820s? |
States began to focus more on the issue. |
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Why did the Virginia assembly pass a manumission act in 1782? |
The law allowed to follow up on the individual promises of freedom to the slaves made during the Revolutionary War. |
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The first institutions of higher education for women were called female academies, or |
seminaries. |
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Which region suffered the most environmental damage in the early 1800s? |
The Northeast |
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What did southerners fear after New York congressman James Tallmadge proposed to admit Missouri as a state only if it banned slavery? |
That this was the first step toward the end of slavery |
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What law passed by Congress in the first two decades of the nineteenth century upheld slavery? |
A law preserving slavery in the District of Columbia |
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Who planned a major slave revolt that nearly broke out in Virginia in 1800? |
Gabriel Prosser |
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How did divorce laws change after 1800? |
Drunkenness was accepted as grounds for divorce. |
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Which group most closely embodied the concept of democratic republicanism in the first decades after American independence? |
The middle class |
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Why did most free blacks in the early 1800s oppose the plans of the American Colonization Society? |
They had no desire to leave the country. |
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What was one drawback of the new market economy in the early 1800s? |
Environmental pollution |
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How did the southern defense of slavery shift as a result of the proposal in the House of Representatives to ban slavery from Missouri? |
It became more extreme. |
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What statement describes the concept of republican motherhood? |
A limited revision of traditional domestic roles for women |
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After the Revolution, most state legislatures enacted statutes that required an equal division of a father’s estate among his offspring, reflecting what trend? |
Growing sense of respect for children |
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Why did New England farmers become more dependent on the market in the early nineteenth century? |
Farmers increasingly focused on raising livestock for sale of their by-products. |
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One early success in solving transportation problems in the United States was the construction of the Lancaster Turnpike in 1794 in which state? |
Pennsylvania |
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Why did some Americans criticize special charters granted by states to private enterprises in the early 1800s? |
They were anti republican in spirit. |
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What was significant about the goods produced by New England farm families in the early 1800s? |
They were sold in distant markets and door-to-door in the United States by peddlers. |
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Which group was most likely to practice authoritarian parenting during the early republic? |
Evangelical Methodists influenced by the Second Great Awakening |
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What is Gabriel Prosser, an African American from Virginia, known for? |
Planning a mass slave rebellion |
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Why did Thomas Jefferson write that the Missouri crisis was like "a fire-bell in the night"? |
He feared that slavery might destroy the American experiment in republicanism. |
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What was a consequence of the 1795 Massachusetts Mill Dam Act? |
The act overrode common law to safeguard the rights of mill owners at the expense of nearby landowners. |
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What difference between New England and the southern states reflected state government spending priorities in the early 1800s? |
The degree of education among the populace |
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What impact did economic changes in the first three decades of the 1800s have on the colonization movement? |
The cotton boom increased the demand for slaves and doomed colonization. |
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Which republican-minded American argued that wives’ role was to ensure their husband’s "perseverance in the paths of rectitude"? |
Benjamin Rush |
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How did Benjamin Rush argue that "republican women" could contribute to the growth of a strong republican society? |
By teaching their sons republican virtues |
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How did family size change in the northern states during the early republic? |
It was dropping markedly. |
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In 1782, the Virginia assembly passed what kind of act, which allowed individual owners to free their slaves? |
A manumission act |
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The "general ideas of Liberty and Equality" caused what social phenomenon in America, according to one visiting Polish aristocrat? |
Lack of respect for elders |
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Why did a group of northern congressmen desert the antislavery coalition and accept Henry Clay’s Missouri Compromise in 1820? |
Southern opposition to the Tallmadge amendment was not wavering. |
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Which country inspired African Americans in the United States with hope for an end to slavery in the early 1800s? |
Haiti |
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In Letters from an American Farmer (1782), St. Jean de Crèvecoeur praised the American people for what achievement? |
Creation of a new social order that rejected elitist practices |
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Why were education rates higher in New England than in other regions of the country during the early republic? |
Public schools were locally funded. |
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Who wrote the "blue-back speller" that attempted to standardize vocabulary and grammar for the American people? |
Noah Webster |
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The new republican ideal that encouraged individuals to marry as partners and friends was known as what? |
Companionate marriage |
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The absence of a hereditary aristocracy encouraged Americans to condemn what aspect of society? |
Inherited Status |
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Why were young men and women increasingly able to choose their own partners in the early republic? |
With smaller landholdings, yeomen fathers lost influence over their children. |
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Why did the Quakers take the lead in condemning slavery? |
Their belief in religious and social equality led them to take this stance. |
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Which statement explains why family size was dropping in the northern states? |
Young men were moving west, changing the gender balance in the northern states. |
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What important compromise was formed in Congress in 1820 over the spread of slavery? |
The Missouri Compromise |
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What was a consequence of the New York Emancipation Act of 1799? |
It allowed slavery to continue until 1828. |
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In response to the House of Representatives’ refusal to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state, southern congressmen refused to admit which other area to join the Union as a free state? |
Maine |
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In 1816, Richard Allen became the first bishop of the |
African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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What were considered legitimate grounds for divorce before 1800? |
Abandonment |
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In 1817, influential Americans who were worried about the impact of slavery and race on American society founded what group? |
The American Colonization Society |
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Which state gave and then denied the right to vote to property-owning women? |
New Jersey |
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Sentimentalism was a reaction to which cultural legacy? |
The Enlightment |
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During the early nineteenth century, American merchants recruited members of rural households to manufacture goods for the market using what system? |
The outwork system |
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Born of the Romantic movement in Europe in the late 1700s, which cultural attitude celebrated emotion rather than reason as the best way to understand the experiences of life? |
Sentimentalism |
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Who was considered the most successful writer of the new republic? |
Washington Irving |
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Which advance in transportation was important to economic growth in the United States from about 1790 to 1810? |
Roads and turnpikes |
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