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History
11th Grade
08/23/2011

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Abolition 

Definition

 

 

A movement to end slavery 

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William Lloyd Garrison 

Definition

 

 

White abolitionist editor 

Term

 

 

Emancipation 

Definition

The freeing of slaves 

 

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David Walker 
Definition

Advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery 

 

Term

 

 

Frederick Douglass

Definition

 

 

Taught how to read by one of the wife the was married to 

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Nat Turner 

Definition

 

 

He was born into slavery in the 1800 

he was a gifted preacher

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Antebellum 

Definition

 

 

Belonging to the period before the civil war

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gag rule 

Definition

 

 

 

Rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue 

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chapter 9

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Specialization 

Definition

 

 

 

In farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use.

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Market Revolution 

Definition

 

 

The major change in the U.S. economy produced by peoples beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves

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Capitalism 

Definition

 

 

An economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits.

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Entrepreneur 

Definition

 

 

A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

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Telegraph 

Definition

 

 

A Device for the electrical transmission of coded messages over wires.

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John Deer 

Definition

 

 

Invented the first steel plow

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Cyrus McCormick 

Definition

 

 

Permitted one farmer to do the work of five hired hands 

 

Term

 

 

Manifest Destiny 

Definition

 

 

The 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory 

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

Definition

 

 

The treaty requiring the sioux to live on a reservation along the missouri river 

Term

 

 

Santa Fe Trail 

Definition

 

 

A route from independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, used by traders in the early and mid 1800s

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Oregon Trail 

Definition

 

 

A route from independence Missouri, to Oregon city, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon territory.

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Mormons 

Definition

 

 

A religious community that would play a major role in the setting of the west.

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Joseph Smith 

Definition

 

 

Joseph Smith and five associates established the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints in Fayette, New York in 1830

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Brigham Young 

Definition

 

 

Decided to move his followers beyond the boundaries of the United States.

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Fifty-Four Forty or Fight 

Definition

 

 

The slogan referred to the latitude 54 40', the northern limit of the disputed Oregon Territory 

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Stephen F. Austin 
Definition

 

 

Led the first of several groups of American settlers to a fertile area.

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Land Grants
Definition

 

 

A gift of public land to an individual or organization 

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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 

Definition

 

 

Mexican president 

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Texas Revolution 

Definition

 

 

The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico

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Alamo 
Definition

 

 

 

A mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious in 1836

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Sam Houston 

Definition

 

 

They defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of san Jacinto 

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Republic of Texas

Definition

The nation in 1836 when American settlers in the Mexican province of Tejas declared and fought for their independence, also commonly known at that time as the Lone Star Republic

 

 

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Annex 
Definition

 

 

Incorporate 

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James K. Polk 

Definition

 

 

Didn't like the war thought 

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Zachary Taylor 

Definition

 

 

March to the Rio Grande and blockade the river

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Stephen Kearny 

Definition

 

 

To march from fort Leavenworth, Kansas across the desert to Santa Fe New Mexico 

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Republic of California 

Definition

 

 

The nation proclaimed by American settlers in California when they declared their independence from mexico in 1846

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Winfield Scott
Definition

 

 

He supported a causal straw hat and plain Brown coat

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 
Definition

 

 

The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California of the New Mexico to the United States 

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Gadsden Purchase
Definition

 

 

1853 purchase by the United States of land from Mexico, establishing the present U.S.-Mexico boundary

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Anatomy

Definition
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Sagittal 

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Vertical= Cuts body into right and left 

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Transverse 

Definition

 

 

Cuts body into superior and inferior 

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Frontal (Caronal) 

Definition

 

 

Cuts body into Anteroir and posterior 

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Appendicular 

Definition

 

 

Upper and lower limbs 

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Atial

Definition

 

 

 

Head neck and trunk

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Dorsol Cavity 

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Crania Cavity & Vertibral Canal 

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Ventra Cavity

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Thoracic cavity split into 2

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Prictal membrane 

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Attached to the wall of a cavity 

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Visceral Membrane 

Definition

 

 

Deeper, covers internal organs

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LAL

Definition

 

 

Uniform Approach To Conduct 

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Chonically 

Definition

 

 

 

 

Happens Frequently 

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Stemming 

Definition

 

 

 

One event happened because of another 

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Toting 

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Carrying 

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Severity 

Definition

 

 

 

 

Harshiness or rigor

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Stringent 

Definition

 

 

 

 

Very Heavily enforced 

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Advocate 

Definition

 

 

 

 

A person who is in favor of something 

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Adequate 

Definition

 

 

 

Appropriate 

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Arson 

Definition

 

 

A person who starts fires on purpose 

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Quipped 

Definition

 

 

 

Saying a short message

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