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Freedom:An Analytical Framework
Unit 1/ Exam One. Hist1100 A short History of the United States. Remini
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02/05/2011

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What aspect of freedom shifted as a result of the American Revolution?
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Community's right to self-determination. (Creation of its own government.)
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White Male Sufferage
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Associated with the Antebellum era, this idea of "popular sovriegnty" allowed men that did not own land to have political identity.
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Personal Freedom
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20th century concept of an individual's "ability to choose."
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Economic Freedom
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Evolves over time from early notion of economic autonomy and glorification of independent producers, to free wage labor, to liberty of contract, to mass consumption.
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Economic Autonomy/ Glorification of independent producers
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Concept that associated sulf-sufficience with individual freedom through debt-free subsistance farming of privately owned property.
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Free Wage Labor
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employment in which a free worker sells his labour for an indeterminate amount of time (i.e. a season, few years, or entire carreer) in return for a money-wage or salary and a continuing relationship with the employer
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Freedom of Contract
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 the freedom of individuals and corporations to form contracts without government restrictions
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Mass  Consumption
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Also known as "consumerism," this concept of  economic order is based on the systematic creation of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts.  In an abstract sense, it is the belief that the free choice of consumers should dictate the economic structure of a society
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Christian Freedom
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Religious principle based on abandoning a "life of sin." Obedience to authority was rule, not religeous toleration seen today. Dissenters were prosecuted for endangering public order.
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Civic Freedom
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Secular obedience to higher authority.
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Covetures
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Contract surrendering a woman's legal identity to her husband.
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Dower Rights
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Widow's right to 1/3 of her late husbands property, to be passed to male heirs upon her death.
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Rights to Freeborn Englishmen
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widespread belief that liberty was the unique possession of the British. Freedom was seen as rule of law, parliamentary legislation by consent of the governed.
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Magna Carta
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Document outlining English freedom and subjecting the king to rule of law, not absolute power.
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Market Revolution
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Cult of Domesticity
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Panic of 1819
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McCulloch vs. Maryland
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Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine
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Era of Good Feelings
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Henry Clay
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Tariff of 1816
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Second bank of the United States
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The American System
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James Monroe
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John Deere
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Robert Fulton's Clermont
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Cyrus McCormick
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Invented a machine for harvesting wheat.
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Waltham
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Lowell
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Eli Whitney
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Invented cotton gin, and was a small arms dealer educated at Yale.
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The Eerie Canal 1825
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Invented Morse Code.
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War of 1812
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Battle of New Orleans
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Occurred after the war of 1812 was technically over.
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John Marshall
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Articles of Confederation
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The United State's first attempt at government. Weak financially, unable to tax citizens, difficult system of amendment.
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St. Augustine 1565
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Roanoke 1585
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Jamestown 1607
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V.H. Burgesses 1619
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First house of representatives.
- Set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco
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Habius Corpus
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Means "Body of Law." Mayflower compact of 1620, stated that the king was also required to live by the law.
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Anglo Powhatan War
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Ended in 1644
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King Philip's War 1678
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The First Great Awakening
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1730's -40s
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Treaty of Paris
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In 1763, ends the French and Indian war that started in 1754
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Republicanism
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Economically independent citizens earn political identity through virtue, proven by being productive, property owning citizens
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Aztecs and Incas
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Conquered by
-Military Superiority
-Religious Conflict
-Disease
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Liberalism
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Freedom is individual and private. Political power should always be for the public good.
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John Locke
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Wrote about "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property" in 1680
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Civic Freedom
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Based on Secular Obedience to Social Rank and a display of deference toward those with power and status above your own. 
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Virtue
Definition
Sacrificing individual preference for the greater good.
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Virtu
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Greek word meaning be James Bond.
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The Colonial Charters
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The 3/5ths Compromise 
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For the purpose of allotting representational seats based on population, each slave is counted as 3/5 of a person. 
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