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The theory that of mapping of the cranium to specific human attributes—stands as an early type of science, related to what would become psychology and devoted to understanding how the mind worked—was called: 

John Humphrey Noyes of Vermont founded this utopian community in 1834; his philosophy was based on the idea that it was possible for people to be perfect and free of sin. 

Margaret Fuller came into prominence as 

This British industrialist hoped to create factories where conditions and wages would allow workers to live meaningful and fulfilled lives. 

Matthew Brady became well-known for his work as 

This transcendentalist from West Roxbury, Massachusetts found Brook Farm in 1841: 

Before the Civil War, about ___% of the cotton produced in the United States was exported abroad. 

This individual, born into slavery in Maryland, became an abolitionist leader, writer, statesman, and orator after escaping to the North: 

Andrew Jackson advanced the idea of a concurrent majority, a term which means that a majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the minority of the nation) has the power to veto or disallow legislation put forward by a hostile majority.

Before the Civil War, Virginia and Maryland took the lead in the domestic slave trade of trading of enslaved people within the borders of the United States.