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Second Great Awakening

History; American history

A wave of religious fervor and revivalism that swept the United States from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War.

Second New Deal

History; American history

The second stage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's economic recovery and reform program, launched January 4, 1935.

Religious dissenters from England who believed that the state supported Anglican church, or Church of England, was too corrupt to be reformed. Thus, like the Pilgrims, they often migrated elsewhere ...

Slave Codes

History; American history

Legal codes that defined the slaveholders' power and the slaves' status as property.

Sit in

History; American history

A form of nonviolent protest in which civil rights activists occupy seats in a segregated establishment.

Sherman Antitrust Act

History; American history

A law passed in 1890 to break up trusts and monopolies, it was rarely enforced except against labor unions and most of its power was stripped away by the Supreme Court, but it began federal attempts ...

Shays Rebellion

History; American history

Beset by a hard hitting economic depression after the War of American Independence, these farmers from western Massachusetts finally rose up in rebellion against their state government in 1786 ...