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Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States |
| 2nd Great Awakening | was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States |
| Transcendentalism | idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. |
| Henry David Thoreua | an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist. |
| Seneca Fall Convection | the first women's rights convention. |
| Abolitionists | a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution |
| Horace Mann | An American politician |
| Utopian Communities | to create an ideal society, and imagined societies portrayed in fiction. |
| Mormons | a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| Manifest Destiny | 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents |
| James K Polk | the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina |
| The Alamo | a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army |
| Texas | the battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the battle of San Jacinto, Texas on April 21, 1836 |
| Mexican American War | A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848 |
| Oregon Trail | a 2,200-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. |
| Gadsden Purchase | a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 |
| Wilmot Proviso | the major events leading to the American Civil War |
| California Gold Rush | gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. |
| San Francisco | the California Gold Rush in San Francisco |
| Compromise of 1850 | A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it |
| Fugitive Slave Act | |
| Underground Railroad | |
| Uncles Tom's Cabin | |
| Kansas Nebraska Act |
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