AH/6/Second Great Awakening

Eli Whitney

Engineer, inventor. Most famous for his his invention of the cotton gin

Robert Fulton

Inventor of the steamboat

American sects

Mormons, Seven-Day Adventists, Christian Scientists, Shakers, Unitarians, Spiritualists

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. Waterloo was a decisive battle in more than one sense. It definitively ended the series of wars that had convulsed Europe—and involved many other regions of the world—since the French Revolution of the early 1790s. It also ended the First French Empire and the political and military career of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest commanders and statesmen in history.[ab] Finally, it ushered in almost half a century of international peace in Europe; no further major conflict occurred until the Crimean War.

Death knell of American slavery

The Second Great Awakening

Second Great Awakening

a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.

Main reason immigrants came to America

cheap land

Industry with kept slavery alive

cotton

Most important historical and economic point of the early 1800s

free market in land allowed to develop

American System

interchangeability of parts, uniformity, standardization. Developed by Eli Whitney

Erie Canal

linked the Atlantic via the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, giving access to the Great Plains

laissez faire libertarianism

policy which holds that government has no business coercively interfering with the lives of peaceful (non-coercive) citizens in their private affairs and voluntary (market) relationships.