History Final Vocab

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stressed the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the importance of the individual conscience

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Transcendentalists

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came because of a the Great Irish Famine

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Irish Immigrants

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skilled workers formed this to represent workers in certain crafts or trades

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trade unions

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daughter of a Quaker abolitionists. Worked for women’s rights

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Susan B. Anthony

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religious leaders led a war against alcohol

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Temperance Movement

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southern whites that rented land and worked as these

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tenant farmers

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a network of relatives and friends and friends that made up this

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extended familes

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to be able to read

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literacy

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a network of free African Americans and whites that helped runaway slaves make their way to freedom

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Underground Railroad

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slaves that tried to run away to freedom

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runaways

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fur trappers that adopted Native American ways and had Native American wives

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Mountain Men

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Founded by Joseph Smith, HQ Salt Lake City

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Mormons

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guide to lead settlers west

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Kit Carson

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Scott’s residence on free soil did not make him free. An enslaved person was property, and the 5th amendment prohibits Congress from taking away property “without do process of law”

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Dred Scott Decision

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel which explore’s the injustice of slavery

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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preserved the balance between slave and free states

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Missouri Compromise

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The place where the Civil War had begun

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Fort Sumter

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an abolitionist who believed that God had chosen him to end slavery

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John Brown

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African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became a very powerful and influential speaker and writer

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Frederick Douglas

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ended slavery only in the Confederacy

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Ended slavery in the United States

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13th Amendment

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A Union general

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William Sherman

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required all citizens to help catch runaways

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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The God given right to do somethime. Some Americans thought they had this to expand West

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Manifest Destiny

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huge area that lay between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California

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Oregon Country

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an engineer who developed an improved filament for the light bulb

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Lewis Howard Latimer

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Dissatisfied workers organized into these to demand better pay and working conditions from their employers

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labor unions

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suggested both the extravagant wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that lay underneath

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The Gilded Age