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| tejano | A Texan of Mexican descent. |
| Republican Party | A political party made up of people who wanted to keep the Western territories free of slavery. |
| temperance | Moderation in drinking alcohol or total abstinence from drinking alcohol. |
| discrimination | Action or policies against a minority group. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that America should expand its territorial limits. |
| Abolitionist | A person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it. |
| Oregon Trail | The trail blazed by pioneers who moved from Missouri to Oregon Country. |
| terrain | Land and landforms, including deserts, mountains, and valleys. |
| common man | The "average" American citizen, whose concerns are represented in government. |
| certificates of freedom | Paperwork that proved that a slave had been freed or had bought his or her freedom. |
| Underground Railroad | A system set up by opponents of slavery to help slaves flee from the South to the North. |
| conductor | A person who helped runaway slaves to hide and escape. |
| annex | To add on or attach. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | A law that made it easier for slaveholders to get runaway slaves returned to them. |
| Dredd Scott decision | Made the Missouri Compromise meaningless, the conflict over slavery becomes irreconcilable. Itmeant Congress could not outlaw slavery anywhere. |
| Santa Ana | Mexican general captured at San Jacinto after he killed Americans at the Alamo |
| Sam Houston | Using the cry "remember the Alamo" to rally his men, he captured Santa Ana, helping to create the independent Republic of Texas. |
| Dred Scott | A slave who moved to a free state with his master. When the family moved back to a slave state, he sued for his freedom. |
| Harriett Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Abe Lincoln once said to her "so you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | An abolitionist who started the anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator". |
| Frederick Douglass | Fugitive slave from Maryland, spoke and wrote againstslavery. He published an antislavery newspaper "The North Star". |
| The Grimke sisters | They lived on a Southern plantation that used slaves and hated it. They moved north and became abolitionists and worked for women's rights. |
| Dorothea Dix | A reformer who improved the condition of jails and mental institutions. |
| Nat Turner | He and fellow slaves killed about 60 slaveholders in Virginia before bein captured and killed. |
| Harriet Tubman | A conductor on the Underground Railroad, she made at least 19 trips and led over 300 people to safety without ever losing a "passenger". |
| Sojourner Truth | An outspoken freed slave who traveled to cities in the North, speaking for the rights of African Americans. She was also a supporter of women's rights. |
| James K. Polk | Democratic presidential candidate, an expansionist, campaigned with the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight". |
| Henry Clay | "The Great Compromiser." Whig presidential candidate in 1844. He lost to James K. Polk. |
| "Fifty-four forty or fight" | Even though Britain also claimed the Oregon Territory, Americans wanted the entire area - from the northern border of California to the southern tip of Alaska, at north latitude of 54 40'. |
| The Compromise of 1850 | Suggested by Henry Clay, a plan that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and outlawed slave trade in Washington, D.C., pleasing the North. To please the South, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed. It also created 2 new territories: Utah & New Mexico. |
| The Kansas Nebraska Act | made expansion of slavery possible. |
| Lucretia Mott | Took part in meeting at Seneca Falls, NY to fight for women's rights. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Fought for women's rights. At Seneca Falls, NY, opened the women's rights convention with the declaration: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men AND women are created equal." |
| Susan B. Anthony | Fought for a woman's right to vote. |
