American Histroy Unit 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Trail Of Tears | Small group of Cherokee people signed a document giving land to American's, so American's forced Natives to Oklahoma. Over 4,000 Natives died along the way. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Wrote "liberateur" about anti-slavery, thought slavery was morally wrong |
| Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave, worked on the underground railroad |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped salve bought himself free and could spread thoughts about abolition |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Active reformer, supported abolitionist causes, Helped found The American Anti-Slavery society, Thought women should be allowed to join mens business meetings |
| Lucretia Mott | Married Henry Stanton, Thought women should be allowed to join mens business meetings |
| Monroe Doctrine | Foreign policy doctrine set forth by president Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the western hemisphere, written by JQA |
| Industrial Revolution | Shift from Manual labor to Mechanized work |
| Market Revolution | Individuals began to work for others and markets had things that people wanted to buy |
| Henry David Thoreau | Tried to perfect himself and society, he was a transcendentalist, wrote a book "Civil Disobedience" |
| Civil Disobedience | Active refusal to obey certain laws without resorting to physical violence |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Gave speeches and used civil disobedience didn't like slavery |
| North | Textile mills, fabric, clothing, shoes, tool, business owners-middle, factory workers,URBAN city |
| South | Cotton, tobacco, wheat, whites- 1/4 owned slaves, poor whites- Africans, RURAL city |
| Women in 19th Century | Lack of power by slaves and women, almost same as slaves because of lack of power, women began Woman's Movement-working for greater rights and opportunities for women, held conventions |
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