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Andrew Jackson |
President in 1828; looked at interests of poor farmers, laborers, and settlers who wanted Native American Land in the Southeast; passed the Indian Removal Act |
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George Washington |
Led the American forces to win in 1781; 1st president of the United States |
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Christopher Columbus |
A sea captain sailing from Spain to explore the islands in the Caribbean Sea |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Wrote the Declaration of Independence; used the words equality, liberty, and justice to inspire colonists to fight; 3rd president of the United States |
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William Penn |
Founded the Pennsylvania Colony; paid for the land; wanted a place where all people regardless of race or religion were treated fairly |
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Andrew Johnston |
vice president of Abraham Lincoln, tried to carry on Lincoln's efforts after he died; became the 17th president after Lincoln |
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Abraham Lincoln |
elected president in 1860 (16th); issued the Emancipation Proclamation; a week after the civil war he died |
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Meriwether Lewis |
sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the land west of the Mississippi River; found plants and animals; created accurate maps; met Native American groups; sent with William Clark |
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William Clark |
ent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the land west of the Mississippi River; found plants and animals; created accurate maps; met Native American groups; sent with Meriwether Lewis |
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Thomas Jefferson |
sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land west of the Mississippi River; lucky; 3rd president; wrote the Declaration of Independence |
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Harriet Beacher Sowe |
published the book Uncle Tom's Cabin to show the evils of slavery |
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Harry S. Truman |
the president after Franklin Roosevelt died; defeated Japan |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
part of the Civil Rights Movement; ended segregation; had the I Have a Dream speech |
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Woodrow Wilson |
didn't want the United States to take part in WW 1; President; Germans were sinking American Ships so we joined WW |
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Jane Addams |
Set up the settlement house in Chicago, IL for poor immigrants |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
president in 1933; started the New Deal |
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Jacob Riis |
angry man; wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives" which took his readers on tours of slum life; protested slavery |
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William Mackenzie |
organized a revolt in Upper Canada; lost to Britain; his goal was to establish the region as a separate country |
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Louis Papineau |
organized a revolt in Lower Canada; lost to Britain; his goal was to establish the region as a separate country |
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Earl of Durham |
sent to Canada by British rulers for suggestions |
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boycott |
to refuse to buy or use goods or services |
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Jamestown, VA |
the first permanent English settlement; founded in 1607; in 1619 it had the beginnings of self-government |
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plantations |
large farms in the south; usually one crop farms; use many people |
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Revolutionary War |
1775 to 1781; in July 1776 representatives from each colony voted for independence against British Rule |
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Pennsylvania Colony |
founded by William Penn; paid for; place where all people regardless of race or religion are treated fairly |
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indentured servants |
people who had to work for a period of years to gain freedom |
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missionaries |
religious people who want to convert others to their religion |
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indigenous |
it describes people who first descended in a region |
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Civil War |
the war from 1861 to 1865 where the Union battled the Confederacy and the Union won |
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immigrants |
people who move from one country to another |
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Industrial Revolution |
the change from making goods by hand to making them by machine |
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abolitionists |
people who ended slavery |
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Reconstruction |
the rebuilding of the nation after the Civil War |
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segregate |
to separate |
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Manifest Destiny |
the destiny to 'own' all the land from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean |
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Louisiana Purchase |
the sale of land from france from the Mississippi River to the Eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains that doubled the size of the United States |
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Civil Rights Movement |
the fight for the injustice of segregation; Martin Luther King Jr. led the movement |
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Communism |
the form of government where the state owns all property |
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Homestead Act |
the act that gave 160 acres of land to amy adult willing to farm and live on it for five years |
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labor force |
the supply of workers that were newcomers |
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Cold War |
The period of great tension where the Soviet Union and the United States joined war; lasted for four years; the Korean and Vietnam war started with this |
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settlement house |
a community center for poor immigrants |
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bilingual |
a country that has two official languages |
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dominion |
a self-governing area |
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Quebec |
lower Canada |
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Yukon |
gold and valuable minerals were found here in the 1890s |
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Ontario |
upper canada |
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acid rain |
kills plants and trees; forms when pollutants turn to rain |
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fossil fuels |
minerals such as gasoline and coal |
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Lake Eerie |
one of America's Great Lakes; lake Cuyahoga empties here; when lake Cuyahoga set on fire so much pollution emptied here that most fish died |
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clear-cutting |
cutting down all the trees in an area |
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free trade |
elimination of tariffs |
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NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement; goal is to encourage trade and economic growth in all three countries |
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Cuyahoga River |
Set on fire because of pollutants in 1969; empties into lake Eerie; US and Canada cooperated in cleaning up the lake when it set on fire; people enjoy fishing and boating in the lake |
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St. Lawrence Seaway |
completed in 1959; made trade easier; a system of locks, canals, and dams |
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tariff |
raises the price of goods and limits the amount of trade |
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Niagara Falls |
what imports to and from Canada has to go through here; a waterfall on the Niagara River between Ontario, Canada and New York state |
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interdependent |
in order to be successful each country has to do business with each other |
