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CRHistory
Unit 4 People and Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Thomas Jefferson | 3rd US President, made the Louisiana Purchase |
Andrew Jackson | US President, army general who forced Native Americans out of Florida |
Sojourner Truth | former slave, outspoken against slavery & inequality of women |
William Lloyd Garrison | founded American Anti-Slavery Society, exposed evils of slavery |
James K. Polk | US President during Mexican American War, favored expansion |
Sacagawea | Charbonneau's wife, traveled with Lewis and Clark |
Francis Scott Key | wrote the Star Spangled Banner |
DeWitt Clinton | Governor of New York, built the Erie Canal |
James Madison | US President during the War of 1812 |
Harriet Tubman | former slave, "conductor" of tyhe Underground Railroad, helped slaves escape |
Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
manifest destiny | belief that Americans possessed a God-given right to move into entire region between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
Underground Railroad | group of people who helped slaves escape |
assimilation | the process of taking another culture's customs |
mass production | new method of factory production where workers focused on one task |