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chapter 11
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12/16/2005

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trancendentalist
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p.279 go beyond human understanding
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Horrace Mann
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p.281 1st secratary of the new state board of education- equality of education.
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Dorothea Dix
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p.282 observed mentally ill people were being treated as prisoners. taught in prison and concluded most of them didnt belong there, they werent criminals at all just mentally ill.
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Seneca Falls Convention
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p.284 statement for women- all men and women are created equal. the conventions was against men.
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Elizabeth Caty Stanton
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p.284 reformer- organized the Seneca Falls Convention
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Laquisha Mott
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p.284 reformer, worked with Elizabeth Caty Stanton against men to form the Seneca Falls Convention.
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Abigail Adams
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p.283-4 wife of John Adams defended women's rights through his presidency.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
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p.279 transcendentalists
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Sajourner Truth
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p.284-5 born a slave in n.y. defened women's rights- needed no help from men throughout her life and never received any. as those believe women need a mans help
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Susan B. Anthony
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p.285 ridiculed b/c she acted more like a man than a woman. her fight gave women control of their own property
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William Lloyd Garrison
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p.287 editor of the "Liberator". an angry abolitionist who burnt a copy of the constitution.
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Joseph Smith
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p.293 founder of mormon religion
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brigham Young
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p.293 new leader of the mormon church when Smith was killed.. moved the church capital to Salt Lake City utah
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gag rule
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p.295 refuse to discuss furthur slave petitioins
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dark horse
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p.297 an unknown man who is not actively seeking office to be a candidate.
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manifest destiny
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p.298 John L. O'Sullivan wrote name of liberty and self-govt across country. sea to shining sea.
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webster-ashberton treaty
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resolved longest dispute over border of Maine and Canada
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Treaty Of Guateloupe
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p.301 texas belongs to u.s.
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bearflag
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set up republic of california by John C. Fremont
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Louisa May Elcott
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wrote little woman 1868
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fiftyfour forty or fight
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p.298 latitude of territory northern border to fight
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remember the Alamo
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p.294 killed 600 out of 2400, texans vs. mexicans spiritual victory
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