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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, attacked many
whites, prompted non-slaveholding...
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Yeoman
Farmers
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family
farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season, self-sufficient,
participated...
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Underground
Railroad
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network of safe houses of white abolitionists
used to bring slaves to freedom
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Harriet
Tubman
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worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated
trips to get slaves out of the South into...
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“Wage slaves”
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northern factory workers who were discarded when
too old to work (unlike the slaves who were...
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Nativism
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anti-immigrant,
especially against Irish Catholics
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The Alamo
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Mexicans held siege on the Alamo (in San Antonio), Texans lost great number of people,
“Remember...
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Stephen
Austin
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American who settled in Texas,
one of the leaders for Texan independence from Mexico
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James K. Polk
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“dark horse” Democratic candidate; acquired
majority of the western US (Mexican Cession,...
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Oregon and “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”
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Oregon Territory owned jointly with Britain, Polk severed its tie to Britain, forced
to settle...
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Manifest
Destiny
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stated the United States
was destined to span the breadth of the entire continent with as...
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Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
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acquired Mexican Cession (future California, Arizona, and
New Mexico); Mexico
acknowledged...
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Wilmot
Proviso
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slavery to be barred in all territory ceded from
Mexico;
never fully passed Congress
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California Gold Rush
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gold discovery in Sutter’s Mill in 1848 resulted
in huge mass of adventurers in 1849, led...
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