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set 14 history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trail of Tears | the joruney of the cheeroke people from their homeland to Indian territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cheeroke died |
| Three Fifths Compromise | The consitutional Convention's agreement to count three fifths of a States slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation |
| Great Compromise | The constitutional Conventions agreement to establish a two house national legislature with all the syayes having equal representation in one house and each state habing representation based on its population in the other house |
| crispus attucks | one of the colonial victims of the Boston massacre shot by British Soldier in 1770 |
| 1620 | the year of the arrival of the pilgrims to the Massachusets coast and the signing of the Mayflower compact |
| Platform | a statement of principals and policies esp. of a political party. two main political parties will put forth their ideas about govering the country |
| 1836 | year Texas became an independent nation, the Lone Star Republic; Sam Houston was elected president |
| John Wilkes Booth | the coerate supporter that shot and killed Abraham Lincoln |
| Harriet Tubman | one of the most famous conducters who led runaways to freedom on the Underground Railroad. |
| Middle Passage | the middele leg of the triangular trade route. The voyage from Africa to the Americas that brought captured Africans into Slavery |
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