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CRHistory
Unit 4 People and Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |