Apush Chapter 9 Summary
Chapter 9
The Pursuit of Equality • • Declaration of independence claims "all men are created equal" • Most states reduced property holding requirements to vote • Less hierarchy-poorer people now reacquired to be treated with the same respect as their wealthy counterparts • indentured servitude was abolished by 1800 • Trade organizations for artists and laborers=social democracy • primogeniture (inheritance laws) were removed • Anglican church dissolved-became the Protestant Episcopal Church • Separation of church and state-especially in Virginia • Philadelphia Quakers established the first antislavery organization • Continental Congress (1774) called for an abolition of the slave trade • Still, slavery was not …show more content…
• Only about 1/4 of the adult white males in the country (mainly those with land) had voted for the ratifying
The Pursuit of Equality • • Declaration of independence claims "all men are created equal" • Most states reduced property holding requirements to vote • Less hierarchy-poorer people now reacquired to be treated with the same respect as their wealthy counterparts • indentured servitude was abolished by 1800 • Trade organizations for artists and laborers=social democracy • primogeniture (inheritance laws) were removed • Anglican church dissolved-became the Protestant Episcopal Church • Separation of church and state-especially in Virginia • Philadelphia Quakers established the first antislavery organization • Continental Congress (1774) called for an abolition of the slave trade • Still, slavery was not …show more content…
• Only about 1/4 of the adult white males in the country (mainly those with land) had voted for the ratifying