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ABC Book of the U.S. History

• Anne Hutchinson – Banish from Massachusetts Colony ; one of the founders of Rhode Island

• Anthony, Susan B. – Leader in women’s suffrage (rights to vote) movement so years to the effort to attain equal women rights

• Bazaar- Navy Seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor in the Battle for Fort Fisher of the American Civil war

• Brown, John – Militant Abolitionist who led raid at Harper’s Ferry

• Communication System- process of keeping the colonies connected to know what was going on in the others

• Confederation- United in a league, alliance, or conspiracy

• Deere, John – Inventor of the street plow

• Dawes Act – Indian policy that broke up reservations into individual land plots

• Emerson, Ralph – Writer and poet; popularized the idea of transcendentalism

• English Bill of Rights – Called for frequent elections, guaranteed rights to bear arms, forbade cruel and usual punishment; rested trial by jury

• Florida Cession – Given to the U.S. by Spain

• Franklin, Benjamin – Author, publisher, inventor and diplomat

• Gadsden Purchase – land purchase from Mexico in used to complete the transcantisental railroads

• Galvez, Bernardo de – Spaniard who held off British in New Orleans , but allowed American use of the part

Horace Mann – Father of Public Education; believed all children had the rights to free education

• Harriet Tubman – Former slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad

• Industrialism – the large- scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical entetrprises

• Individual Rights – the first 10 amendments of the Consition protect individuals rights against the power of the sun

• Jackson Democracy – The idea that as many people as possible should be allowed

• John Paul Jones – Founder of the U.S. navy led raids on British ships and famous for yelling (I have not yet began to fight)

• King George lll – King of England during the American Revolution

• Kansas Nebraska Act – All were example of the government compromise that actually spread slavery further in the country

• Limited Government – placed strict limits on government to protect the people

• Labor Reform Movement – Social movement where workers began protesting and strickes to get better wages

• Morrill Act – land grant that established agricultural – universities ( TEXAS A&M)

Morse, Samuel – Inventor of the telegraph

• New Jersey Plan - the number of

• Northwest Ordinance – established government for the Northwest Territory and descried how a territory become a states

• Override – to overturn or defeat as a fail purposed in congress

• Offensive – position of attacking or the acking itself

• Property Rights – the rights to own property

• Protection Tariffs – taxes on imported goods that are designed to help United States companies complete un the sales if goods

• Quaker s – Quartering of troops

• Quincy Adams – 6th President, member of Congress and favored strong nationalism against states

• Republicanism – Government in which the desire of people are represented in government by elected representive

• Revels, Hiram – American clergyman and educator who become the first black citizen to be elected to the U.S. senate

• Suffrage – the rights to vote

• Secession – to withdraw formally union from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political

• Transcendentalism – a philosophy emphasizing spiritual importance in life over the material important

• Trails of Tears – forces on this trail after Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 into laws

• Ulysses S. Grant – commanding union general won major victories for the union

• Urbanization – social process where cities grow and societies become more urban

• Virtue – the quality of doing what is rights and avoid what is wrong

• Virginia Plan – each states would have a different number of representatives based on states population

• Whitney, Eli – Invented the coin gin and in terchangeable parts

• William, Blackstone – gave the 1st University lectures on English Common Law

• XYZ affair – John Adams