Chap 11 What Was IT?
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hard Money Democrats | Those who wanted to eliminate paper money and regarded banks as centers of trickery and privilege. |
| common schools | Tax- supported public schools built by state and local governments. |
| Fifteen Gallon Law | Decree that merchants could sell ardent spirits only in large amounts |
| Washingtonians | Working-class temperance society members who were nonreligious and welcomed hopeless drunkards. |
| German immigrants | Group that introduced lager beer to the United States. |
| Irish immigrants | Group that displaced many of the free blacks in the economic life of the northeastern cities. |
| American Colonization Society | Organization that proposed the voluntary, gradual, and compensated emancipation of slaves and the repariation of free blacks to West Africa. |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | Formed in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists, this demanded the immediate emancipation of slaves and full civil and legal rights for blacks. |
| New York Magdalen Society | Society of reformers who tried to teach prostitutes morality. |
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