Manifest Destiny And Reform Era Flashcards
Annex
To add
Cede
To grant or give
Common school movement
Raise the standards of schools and support them through taxes
Declaration of sentiments
Formal statement of injustices suffered by women
Diplomacy
Negotiation with other countries
Dorothea Dix
Prison reform and mentally lll reform leader
Emancipation
Freeing enslaved persons
Emigrate
To move to another place
Forty-niner
Gold seekers moving to California in 1849
Homestead
Plot land where pioneers could build there homes
Horace Mann
Education reform leader “father of American public school “
Manifest destiny
Belief that it was American rights to and duty to expand across born America
Oregon trail
2,000 miles overland route from mission to organ
Pass
An opening in the mountains
Abolitionist
Person who wanted slavery to end