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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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| 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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| 20th century concept of an individual's "ability to choose." |
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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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| 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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| the freedom of individuals and corporations to form contracts without government restrictions |
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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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| 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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| Secular obedience to higher authority. |
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| Contract surrendering a woman's legal identity to her husband. |
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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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| Document outlining English freedom and subjecting the king to rule of law, not absolute power. |
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| Second bank of the United States |
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| Invented a machine for harvesting wheat. |
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| Invented cotton gin, and was a small arms dealer educated at Yale. |
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| Occurred after the war of 1812 was technically over. |
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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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First house of representatives.
- Set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco |
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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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| The First Great Awakening |
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| In 1763, ends the French and Indian war that started in 1754 |
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| Economically independent citizens earn political identity through virtue, proven by being productive, property owning citizens |
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Conquered by
-Military Superiority
-Religious Conflict
-Disease |
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| Freedom is individual and private. Political power should always be for the public good. |
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| Wrote about "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property" in 1680 |
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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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| Sacrificing individual preference for the greater good. |
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| Greek word meaning be James Bond. |
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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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