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| Cherokee | one of the many Native American peoples who lived in the Southeast |
| Sequoyah | developed a way to write the Cherokee language |
| council | a group of people who met to talk and make decisions in a Cherokee village |
| Trail of Tears | disease and cold killed 4,000 Cherokee people on this journey |
| Jamestown, Virginia | first permanent English colony in North America |
| colony | a place that is ruled by a distant country |
| Williamsburg | capital of the Virginia colony |
| House of Burgesses | first group of citizens elected to make laws in the colonies |
| Burgess | old English word meaning “citizen” |
| Declaration of Independence | statement written by Thomas Jefferson & approved by Congress on July 4, 1776, |
| American Revolutionary War | war fought between England & the American colonies for independence |
| Civil War | war fought between the North & South over slavery |
| Patriots | citizens who supported the Declaration of Independence |
| Loyalists | wanted the colonies to remain loyal to the King of England |
| Thomas Jefferson | elected as the third president of the United States in 1800 & 1804 |
| time line | a diagram that shows when historical events took place |
| Captive Africans | forced into slavery by landowners who needed huge numbers of workers to make a profit on their plantations |
| plantation | large farm where cash crops were grown |
| Underground Railroad | a group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom |
| abolition | an end to slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president who abolished slavery |
| Confederacy | eleven states from the south that seceded from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | elected president of the confederacy |
| Nebraska and Kansas | controversy(argument) over admittance as free or slave states |
| issues of slavery and states’ rights | divided the nation for many years |
| Civil War | lasted four terrible years and led to the end of slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | said that all enslaved people in the Confederate States were free |
| Harriet Tubman | became a leader for the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglas | became one of the country’s best known speakers and writers about slavery |
| Robert E Lee | one of the best Confederate generals |
| Ulysses S. Grant | a general in charge of the Union army |
| Atlanta, Georgia and Montgomery, Alabama | was mostly in these cities that the struggle for equality began |
| civil rights movement | helped all Americans to gain equal rights |
| Civil rights | the rights of all people to be treated equally under the law |
| segregation | African Americans could not use the same facilities as whites |
| High technology | the use of computers and other electronics to meet new needs |
| Martin Luther King ,Jr | became a leader in the fight against segregation |
| Rosa Parks | a black woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, defying a law that said she must |
| boycott | people refuse to buy or use something if they disagree with the company that sells it |
| Andrew Jackson | 1829-1832 President who appealed to the common people, but held a bias to the Cherokee |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | largely the result of peaceful protests of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. |
| Juan Ponce DeLeon | explored FL looking for the "fountain of youth" |
| They once farmed, fished, hunted, and gathered for a living. | Cherokee Native Americans |
| St. Augustine | first permanent colony in North America |
| Roanoke Island | site of the "lost colony" in VA |
| Chapel Hill, NC | part of the Research Triangle area of NC, along with Raleigh & Durham, center of medical research and home to many businesses |
| Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War | Cities, farms, & railroads were repaired and the Freedman's Bureau was established to help former slaves. |
| one in 4 Confederate soldiers died; slavery became illegal in the US; many cities in the South were burned down. | Effects of the Civil War |
| businesses run today by the NC Cherokee Nation | artworks & craft shops for tourists, lumber industry |
| agriculture | An industry that helped people in the South become rich and powerful |
| warm southern climate | the reason many Northern people from colder regions are moving and Southern cities are growing |
| Dahlonega, GA | first gold rush in the US |
