HIST 150 Lecture 8: Dr. Brady SP '15 Pre Spring Break
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North has advantage in h. o. r. so south wants advantage in senate. Henry clay achieves compromise- maine admitted as free state so missouri can be admitted as a slave state. Also drew a 36 30 line- above line is free and below line is slave. # of women participating in the 2nd awakening, more than men. Camp meeting was a huge outdoor multi-day revival site for many religious denominations. Circuit riders go to diff towns on horseback and preach informally. Black church comes about called a&a church. Laity empowered ordinary ppl more than the clergy did. They had little sense of limits and referred to as millennial ppl . States tried to fix roads by using toll roads but americans skipped out on that idea and cheated it. Took a long time to build the national road. Canals came about bc water transport was cheapest way to go. Railroads started happening broadening horizons and allowing shipment of goods to far places.
