APUSH Period 3: Chapter 8

Economic crisis, caused by 30% drop in world agricultural prices

Republican political economy, funneled state aid to private businesses whose projects improve general welfare

Helped young people choose their own partners promoted importance of "feeling" - a physical sensuous appreciation of God, nature, and other

Marrying for love

The concept that made women responsible for teaching children Republican ideals

Act in 1782, allowed owners to free their slaves

Rejected growing ideas against slavery, 6k Africans resettled to Liberia

Maine enters Union as a free state as Missouri enters as a slave state keeping balance

Funding of churches by their members, laity controls clergy

Irreligous Americans, many attracted to Evangelical Methodist and Baptist Churches

Decade-long series of religious revivals, spread southward throughout states, started with Evangelicals

First millionaire, invested in NYC real estate, sold fur to China

Wrote "Thoughts on Female Education" - argued that women should instruct their sons about liberty + government

Member of American Colonization Society, Speaker of House, believed that racial bondage hindered economic progress

Congregationalist clergymen, accepted that people sinned, rejected predestination

First American advocate for higher education for women, Middleburg Female Seminary (1814), founded girls' academies