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SS Chapter 4
SS Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Sequoyah | a Cherokee native who invented a system of writing for the Cherokee language |
council | a group of people who meet to talk and make decisions |
Trail of Tears | the forced movement of Cherokee and some other Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma in 1838 |
Tahlequah | a new Cherokee capital in Oklahoma |
Thomas Jefferson | elected to Virginia's House of Burgesses; wrote the Declaration of Independence |
House of Burgesses | a group of Virginia citizens who made laws for the colony |
Declaration of Independence | a document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 explaining why the 13 colonies should be free of British rule |
Harriet Tubman | escaped slavery and made 19 trips to slave states to free other slaves |
Frederick Douglass | one of the best known speakers and writers against slavery |
Underground Railroad | a group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom |
abolition | an end to slavery |
Abraham Lincoln | made the statement that all the slaves in the South were free. He was the 16th President of the U.S. |
Confederacy | the government formed by 11 Southern states that left the United States |
Civil War | the war in the U.S. between the Union states of the north and the Confederate states of the South, 1861-1865 |
Emancipation Proclamation | said that all enslaved people living in the Confederate states were now free |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | civil rights leader who led the 1963 March on Washington |
civil rights | the rights of people to be treated equally under the law |
segregation | to set a group of people apart by law |
Rosa Parks | she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man |
boycott | when people refuse to buy or use something if they disagree with the company that sells it |
high-technology | the use of computers and other electronics to meet new needs |
Mohandas Gandhi | used nonviolent protest to help bring about change in India |