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Indulgences

History; American history

Redemption certificates pardoning persons from punishment in the afterlife that were being sold by the Roman Catholic church. Martin Luther particularly condemned this practise in his Ninety five ...

Imprisonment for Debt

History; American history

During the early nineteenth century, reformers succeeded in restricting imprisonment of debtors.

Convention held in late 1814 and early 1815 by New Englanders opposed to the War of 1812, which recommended Constitutional amendments to weaken the power of the South and to restrict Congress's power ...

Harlem Renaissance

History; American history

Self conscious African American cultural, literary, and artistic movement centred in Harlem in New York City during the 1920s.

Half Way Covenant

History; American history

Realising that many children of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first generation were not actively seeking God's saving grace and full church membership, the question was how to keep the next ...

Greenback Party

History; American history

A political party founded in 1874 to promote the issuance of legal tender paper currency not backed by precious metals in order to inflate the money supply and relieve the suffering of people hurt by ...