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• Social Studies Review

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What was an abolitionist?

• A person who wanted to end slavery.

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This was the process that changed the way goods
were made-from handmade goods to machine made
goods.

• Industrial Revolution

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This was the letter sent to King George by the
colonists asking him to repeal the Intolerable
Acts and end the fighting.

• Olive Branch Petition

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This is the introduction to the constitution and
states the goals of the constitution.

• Preamble

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This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.

• Treaty of Paris of 1783

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This occurred when people organized to ban
alcohol.

• Temperance Movement

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Who were these famous people? Herman Melville,
James Fennimore Cooper, Nathanial Hawthorne,
William Wells Brown, and Washington Irving.

• American Writers

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What are the three branches of government?

• Judicial, Executive, and Legislative

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This part of the government carries out the laws.
The President is part of this branch.

• Executive Branch

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The country experienced an economic depression
because everyone tried to trade in their paper
money for gold at the same time. Banks closed,
businesses closed, people lost jobs and too much
paper money was in circulation which became
worthless.

• Panic of 1837

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This means to break away. The southern states
did this when they broke away from the Union
before the Civil War.

• Secede

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The belief that people should be able to vote and
decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or
notlet the people rule.

• Popular Sovereignty

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This woman fought for prison reform and hospitals
for the mentally insane.

• Dorthea Dix

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This woman was an escaped slave who helped others
escape on the Underground Railroad. She was an
abolitionist who also fought for womens rights.

• Harriet Tubman

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This federal law stated that everyone had to
return slaves to their owners or be fined 1000
and jailed for six months.

• Fugitive Slave Law

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In this treaty, Spain gave Florida over to the
United States for 5 million.

• Adams-Onis Treaty

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This agreement counted slaves in the population
count to help determine how many representatives
a state could have in Congress.

• 3/5 Compromise

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In this deal, the United States gained the lower
strip of land of New Mexico and Arizona to
complete Manifest Destiny. They paid 10 million
for it.

• Gadsden Purchase

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This slave filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court
stating that he was a free man after his master
died.

• Dred Scott

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This phrase refers to people of different races
or origins.

• Ethnic Diversity

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