<span>In 1832, President Andrew Jackson refused to re-charter the Bank of the United States, opting instead to deposit government funds in select state or “pet' banks. The state banks, facing little regulation, freely loaned paper money to virtually anyone who asked for it. A flurry of land speculation and inflation followed. To curtail these alarming trends, Jackson issued the Species Circular on July 11, 1836. The executive order meant that federal land could no longer be bought with paper money, but only with gold or silver. In Jackson's view, this “hard' money was the only currency that could be trusted.</span>
The biggest appeal of Christian Revivalism was the Protestant idea that people could have a personal relationship with God without having to pay indulgences to the Church, which appealed to many people who wanted a "pure" relationship with their God.
The Supreme Court said Mr. Reynolds could not break the law while practicing his religion.
Reynolds v. the United States was heard by the Supreme Court in 1878 in regard the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act placed on the Utah Territory.
Reynolds argued that preventing him to marry more than one woman was a violation of his First Amendment rights to protection of religion. The Supreme Court concluded that he had the right to his belief but he could not go around the law to practice his faith. The law stated marriage was to be between two people only and therefore he could not be married to more than one woman.
Answer: the AWSA and the NWSA fought for women’s rights.
Explanation:
The Seneca Convention of 1848 was the first women's convention in the United States and was the bedrock for the Women Suffrage movement in the United States.
Even though the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) were formed in 1869, the Seneca Convention which was more than 20 years earlier was the match that lit the fire for the suffrage movement that the AWSA and the NWSA became part of.
