three-fifths compromise.

Northwest Ordinance.

closing of the slave trade until 1807.

Great Compromise.

the granting of limited home rule to most of Ireland by Great Britain.

the migration from the countryside to the city.

an influx of immigrants from mostly Eastern European countries.

the rebellion against British rule and the potato famine.

suffrage.

racism.

nativism.

the cult of domesticity.

the South diversified its economy.

technology assumed a large role in cotton production.

slavery revived and expanded.

there was less need for reliance on slaves to work in the cotton fields.

most important in their raising of good, republican children.

focused on domesticity and private life.

central to the development of manufacturing in the United States.

expanded into the public sphere.

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edgar Allen Poe

Louisa May Alcott

religious social reform legitimized their activity outside the home.

they saw an opportunity to gain political power.

social reform seemed more attractive than church life itself.

many of the leading preachers and evangelists were women.

the Seneca Falls Convention, which focused on greater gender equality.

the Enlightenment’s focus on individualism.

the rise of Republican Motherhood to define the ideal woman.

the American System’s inclusion of all forms of labor.