Dec 21, 2015
Historical Terms and Definitions
Students will gain an understanding of the meaning ofimportant historical terms.
Students will learn the definitions of words that are key to understanding United States history.
Students will comprehend how interpreting maps helps to clarify the meaning of many historical terms and concepts.
A 19th century American belief that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory over the entire North American continent
Manifest Destiny
http://www.historyonthenet.com/American_West/manifest_destiny.htm
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Photo by Glenda Sullivan
A prehistoric Native American archaeological site in Southeastern Oklahomawhere twelve mounds can be found on the 150 acre protected site
Spiro Mounds2.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/United_States_Louisiana_Purchase_states.png
Louisiana
Purchase
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A situation that arose in 1832 during the presidency of Andrew Jackson when leaders of South Carolina, led by John C. Calhoun, advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could “nullify” the law
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BZFYe98kpkk/S-vDQaJACUI/AAAAAAAAC4k/WNZ1txQdZ-U/s400/Destruction+of+the+Snake+South+Carolina.jpg
Nullification Crisis
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http://historyscoop.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/map16.gif
A network of peoplewho helped theescaped slaves ontheir way tofreedom in thenorthern states orCanada
UndergroundRailroad
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A movement whose goal was theimmediate emancipation of allslaves and the end of racialdiscrimination and segregation
Abolitionist Movement6.
http://www.soldierstudies.org/images/webquest/civil%20war%20soldiers.jpg
The belief that one section or region of acountry is better than any other section ofregion of that country Example: North vs. South led to Civil War
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Sectionalism
http://jackiewhiting.net/AP/Images/Missouri_Compromise_map.jpg
An 1820 congressional agreement that regulated the extension of slavery inthe United States--The territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state.The territory of Maine was admitted as a free state. The boundaries of slavery were limited to the same latitude as the southern boundary ofMissouri, 36º30´ N.
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A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War advocatingmaintenance of white supremacy by violent methods
Ku Klux Klan
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http://envisioningtheamericandream.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/racist-sign-31-swscan10607.jpg
State and local laws in the United States enacted between1876 and 1965 that mandatedracial segregation in many publicand private facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy
Jim Crow laws
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A federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
Chinese Exclusion Act
http://www.zcommunications.org/nativism-is-big-business-by-meghan-conley.html
The policy of protecting the interests of native born or establishedinhabitants against those of immigrants
Nativism
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The process by which a country transforms itself from a primarilyagricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goodsand services
Industrialization
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http://www.cartoonwork.com/unions_g54-employee_free_choice_act_p317.html
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A movement from 1865-1919 in the United States to protect the commoninterests of workers and to get them better wages, reasonable hours, and safer working conditions--The movement was initiated by strikes thatbegan because of wage cuts, new inventions of machinery, and thedepersonalization of workers.
Labor Movement
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The demand forchange orprogress in aneffort to curemany of theills of theAmericansociety that haddevelopedduring thegreat spurt ofindustrialgrowth in thelast quarter ofthe 19th
Century
Progressive Movement 15.
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A term coined during the Progressive Era based on a literary characterwho was so busy cleaning and raking up the muck and dirt that hedidn’t see the good things that were above his head
Muckrakers
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http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/~cwalton/USHistory/suffrageparade.jpg
http://bsumaps.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html
http://americanwiki.pbworks.com/w/page/12595194/Black%20Suffrage
The right to vote inpolitical elections
Suffrage
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A movement led mostly bywomen in the 19th & early20th centuries to encouragemoderation in the consumptionof alcoholic beverages orto prohibit the use of alcohol completely
Temperance Movement18.
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A form of governmentin which people chooseleaders by voting
Democracy
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Photo by Glenda Sullivan
A social organization in which all economic & social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single political party Communism
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In summary, as we study historical geography, keep in mind thecorrelation between the two disciplines. For example, the historicalterm westward expansion is an example of one of the five themes of geography: Movement of goods, people and ideas from place to place.