HIST 201 Chapter 9: American Peoples on the Move
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American colonization society (acs) (1817): society of antislavery whites that advocated the return of freed slaves to africa. Bank of the united states (bus) (1791-1811): first federal bank that provided for the issuance of a national currency and centralization of federal tax collection. Monroe doctrine (1823): policy introduced by president james monroe who declared that the. United states shared common interest with other states in the western hemisphere and that the political system in europe was essentially different from that of the democratic republics in north and south america. Second great awakening (early 19th century): religious revivalist movement that echoed the. Linked evangelical christians on both sides of the atlantic to exchange ideas and strategies that inspired a broad set of social, cultural, and intellectual changes. Yeomen: term in the 18th and early 19th century that applied to self-sufficient farmers who owned small plots of land, an idealized type. Funded by congress; requested by president thomas jefferson.
