AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

<ul><li>{{#tip-text:anti-Catholicism| America was largely Protestant, and not Anglican (Church of England), which has the King at its head; Protestantism believed that anyone can find God by themselves, so they do not need a priest or higher-level church official between them and their God; in addition to the split of the Anglican Church from the Roman Catholic Church under Henry VIII, American Protestants believed that the Catholic hierarchical structure (of priests >> bishops >> pope), was undemocratic and antirepublican; thus Catholics were held to be more obedience to the Pope in Rome than to the President at Washington; anti-Catholicism contributed to the the American Revolution itself, and carried into the early Republic and antebellum period as Catholic immigration increased in the 1830-1850s from Germany and Ireland}}<li>{{#tip-text:cult of domesticity| a term used by historians to describe changes in the role and ideals of women in families in the 19th century; the "true woman" (historians' term, not from the period) was the center of the family: wife and mother dedicated to family, purity, religious piety, and submission to her husband; note that in this view at the time, women were not to speak publicly about politics much less agitate for the vote (see "separate sphere"; over the 19th century, middle class white women (not farmers) began to have fewer children (indicating advances in medicine and health care), which allowed them more personal time which could be spent on outside activities such as church, charities, clubs, etc.}}</ul>