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| council | a group of people who meet to talk and make decisions |
| Sequoyah | Cherokee developed a system of writing (syllabary) |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Harriet Tubman | a freed slave and conductor of the underground railroad. Freed 300 slaves |
| Frederick Douglass | A famous speaker and writer about slavery |
| underground railroad | a group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom |
| Emancipation Proclamation | statement by Lincoln; all slaves living in the South were now free |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokees forced by the army to move west |
| House of Burgesses | a group of Virginia citizens who made laws for the colony |
| Declaration of Independence | a statement that explained why the colonies should be free from English rule |
| Rosa Parks | African American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama |
| segregation | the act of setting apart of group of people by law |
| boycott | the act of refusing to buy or use something if they disagree with the company that sells it |
| Civil Rights Movement | the events that happened during the fight to end segregation |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | movement in Montgomery, Alabama; citizens refused to ride the bus |
| port | a place where ships load and unload their goods |
| growing season | the number of days in a year when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow |
| tributaries | smaller rivers that feed into a large river |
| coal | a black or brown mineral found in the ground that can be burned which is a valuable resource throughout the world |
| Martin Luther King | a Baptist minister who became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Abraham Lincoln | president of the United States during the Civil War; made the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gandhi | led India to freedom by change without violence; |
