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final 19-36
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| expantionists | those who believed the U.s should extend across the entire North American continent |
| Alamo | an abandoned mission in San Antonio, battle fought by Texans and Mexicans |
| Factory System | method of production that combined machines and workers in mills and factories |
| Nativists | person prejudiced against immigrants |
| Proclaimation of 1763 | proclaimation by King George III reserving all land west of the Appalachian Mountains for all American Indians |
| Clara Barton | Started the Red Cross, "angel of the Battlefield" |
| Sally Tompkins | Sponsored hospital in the South; only 6 of her 3000 patients died |
| Harriet Tubman | former slave who worked as a spy for the Union army; worked with th underground railroad |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate army general and commander in chief of the confederate army. |
| General Grant | eighteenth president of the U.S.; army general; named commander in chief of the union army during the civil war |
| Elijah Hunt Rhodes | served in the union army of the Potomac during the civil war |
| Stonewall Jackson | confederate army general' led the rout of the union forces at the first battle of bull run |
| Mary Chestnut | Southern Carolina woman, noted for writing a diary of the events of the Civil War |
| Paleo Indians | nomads, followed wild game killing animals when they could, ate wild plants. |
| Presideos | spanish colonial period forts, usually connected with a mission |
| kivas | round structures built mostly underground by the Anasazi people |
| Sachem | head of an Iroquois tribe |
| Conquistadores | spanish explorers and soldiers; forced native American peoples to accept Spanish rule. |