Chapter 7 The Jeffersonian Era

Jeffersonians believed in a smaller government, but they also favored a nationwide system of public schools.

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The idea of the “republican mother” presumed that it was important that women be educated.

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Many efforts were made to educate both Native Americans and African slaves to “uplift” them as people.

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In the early nineteenth century, primary and secondary education, but not higher education, operated in close conformity to republican ideals.

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The early nineteenth-century growth of the medical profession resulted in an expansion in opportunities for women.

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At the end of the eighteenth century, only a small proportion of white Americans were members of formal churches.

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Philosophies such as universalism were not consistent with the doctrines of Calvinism.

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The Second Great Awakening succeeded in restoring to prominence traditional doctrines such as predestination.

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The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.

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By the early nineteenth century, the United States began to have cities that approached the major cities of Europe in population.

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