apush ch. 8 vocab – Flashcards

a church given privileged legal status by the government.

to release from the hand, the legal act of relinquishing property rights in slaves.

a burst of American literature during the 1840s highlighted by the novels of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne

the idea that the primary political role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty and republican virtue in their children and mold them into exemplary republican citizens

a marriage based on equality and mutual respect- both republican values. although husbands in these marriages retained significant legal power, they increasingly came to see their wives as loving partners rather than as inferiors or dependents

a European cultural movement that emphasized emotions and a physical appreciation of God, nature, and people.

the right to vote. The classical republican ideology current before 1810 limited suffrage tot hose who held property and thus had "a stake in society."

in Europe, the class of traders and townspeople who weren't part of either the aristocracy or the peasantry

the periodic rise and fall of business activity that is characteristic of market-driven, capitalist economies

a system of economic production based on the private ownership of property and the contractual exchange for profit of goods, labor, and money.