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Vocabulary Thomas 4
Vocabulary Chapters 14-17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cotton Gin | device used by Eli Whitney in 1793 to separate cototn plants' fiber from the seeds |
| Cotton Belt | region stretching from Georgia to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced |
| Folktales | oral stories that often provide a moral lesson |
| sprituals | emotional Christian songs sung by slaves in the south that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves' religions beliefs |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | rebellion in which Nat Turner led slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kills planter families |
| Second Great Awakening | a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790's an dbecame widespread in the United States by the 1830's |
| Utopian Communities | place where people worked to establish a perfect society |
| Nativists | .S. citizens who opposed immigratin because they were suspicious of immigrants and feard losing jobs to them |
| Tenements | poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived |
| Temperance Movement | a social reform effort begun in the mid-1800's to encourage poeple to drink less alcolhol |
| Abolition | an end to slavery |
| Emancipation | freedom from slavery |
| The Liberator | Antislavery newspaper first published by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 |
| American Anit-Slavery Society | group founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and others to work for immediate abolition and racial equality for free African Americans |
| Underground Railroad | network of people who helped thousands of slaves escape tot the Northy by providing transportatioin and hiding places |
| Seneca Fall Convention | first national women's right convention, at which Declaration of Sentiments was written |
| Declaration of Sentiments | statement written and signed by women's rights supporters at the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Alamo | Spanish mission in San Antonia, Texas that was the site of a fmous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836 |
| Battle of San Jacinto | final Battle of the Texas Revolution; independence for Texa |
| Republic of Texas | independent nation of Texas, which lasted from 1836 until 1848, when Texas was annexed to the United States |
| Oregon Trail | a 2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from Missouri to Oregon Country |
| Manifest Destiny | belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States was meant to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory |
| Mexican Cession | land that Mexico gave to the United States after the Mexcian War through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Gadsden Purchase | U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico |
| Mormons | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| California Gold Rush | migration of thousands of people to Californai in 1849 after gold was discovered there |
| Forty-niners | gold seekers who moved to California during the Gold Rush |
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