History Final Vocab Flashcards
stressed the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the importance of the individual conscience
Transcendentalists
came because of a the Great Irish Famine
Irish Immigrants
skilled workers formed this to represent workers in certain crafts or trades
trade unions
daughter of a Quaker abolitionists. Worked for women’s rights
Susan B. Anthony
religious leaders led a war against alcohol
Temperance Movement
southern whites that rented land and worked as these
tenant farmers
a network of relatives and friends and friends that made up this
extended familes
to be able to read
literacy
a network of free African Americans and whites that helped runaway slaves make their way to freedom
Underground Railroad
slaves that tried to run away to freedom
runaways
fur trappers that adopted Native American ways and had Native American wives
Mountain Men
Founded by Joseph Smith, HQ Salt Lake City
Mormons
guide to lead settlers west
Kit Carson
Scott’s residence on free soil did not make him free. An enslaved person was property, and the 5th amendment prohibits Congress from taking away property “without do process of law”
Dred Scott Decision
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel which explore’s the injustice of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
preserved the balance between slave and free states
Missouri Compromise
The place where the Civil War had begun
Fort Sumter
an abolitionist who believed that God had chosen him to end slavery
John Brown
African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became a very powerful and influential speaker and writer
Frederick Douglas
ended slavery only in the Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Ended slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
A Union general
William Sherman
required all citizens to help catch runaways
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The God given right to do somethime. Some Americans thought they had this to expand West
Manifest Destiny
huge area that lay between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California
Oregon Country
an engineer who developed an improved filament for the light bulb
Lewis Howard Latimer
Dissatisfied workers organized into these to demand better pay and working conditions from their employers
labor unions
suggested both the extravagant wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that lay underneath
The Gilded Age
