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Unit 3 Vocab
8th grade pre ap social studies
Term✰ | Definition✰ |
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Indian Removal Act | The act to force all Indians to move west. |
Andrew Jackson | Seventh president of the United States. |
Trail of Tears | The trail that the Indians walked on while moving west. |
Nullification | The act of cancelling something. |
Spoils System | A act of regarding public offices. |
Battle of San Jacinto | Decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. |
Alamo | Mission in San Antonio, Texas |
Antonia Lopez De Santa Anna | Mexican leader. |
Sam Houston | American soldier and politician. |
Annex | To remove. |
Manifest Destiny | To expand. |
49er | Gold Rush group. |
Mountain Men | Explorers who lives in the wilderness. |
Common School Movement | The movement to let everyone have education. |
Seneca Falls Convention | Convention about women rights. |
Charles Finney | Leader and a pastor. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leading figure of the early women's rights movement. |
Dorothea Dix | Creator of asylums. |
Horace Mann | Leader of common school movement. |
Asylums | Place where the mentally ill stay. |
Temperance Movement | The act of limiting alcohol use. |