An American History
★ A-47 GLOSSARY abolition Social movement of the pre– Civil War era that advocated the immedi- ate emancipation of the slaves an ...
A-48 ★ GLOSSARY protest American territorial expansion, especially in the Philippine Islands; its membership included prominent ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-49 Bank War Political struggle in the early 1830s between President Jackson and financier Nicholas Biddle over the ...
A-50 ★ GLOSSARY workers since braceros could be deported at any time. Brant, Joseph The Mohawk leader who led the Iroquois again ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-51 guaranteed the rights of citizenship to for- mer slaves. Civil Service Act of 1883 Law that estab- lished the Ci ...
A-52 ★ GLOSSARY lived in areas of the Confederacy under Union control. Contract with America A list of con- servatives’ promises ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-53 into small farms for Indian families, with the remainder sold to white purchasers. D- Day June 6, 1944, when an ...
A-54 ★ GLOSSARY reverted to individual colonial govern- ments three years later. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” President Clin- ton’s c ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-55 English liberty The idea that English people were entitled to certain liberties, including trial by jury, habeas ...
A-56 ★ GLOSSARY that appeared in Congress by the mid- 1790s. The Federalists, led by George Washington, John Adams, and Alexande ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-57 Freedom Rides Bus journeys challenging racial segregation in the South in 1961. French and Indian War The last— ...
A-58 ★ GLOSSARY gold rush The massive migration of Americans into California territory in the late 1840s and 1850s in pursuit of ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-59 of millions of gallons of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in one of the largest environmenta ...
A-60 ★ GLOSSARY House of Burgesses The first elected assembly in colonial America, established in 1619 in Virginia. Only wealthy ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-61 residents of “insular” territories acquired by the United States in the Spanish- American War, such as Puerto Ri ...
A-62 ★ GLOSSARY Englanders and the dispossession of the region’s Indians. Knights of Labor Founded in 1869, the first national u ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-63 erty by limiting the power of government to interfere with the natural rights of cit- izens; in the twentieth ce ...
A-64 ★ GLOSSARY the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Marsh ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-65 mill girls Women who worked at textile mills during the Industrial Revolution who enjoyed new freedoms and indep ...
A-66 ★ GLOSSARY National Defense Education Act 1958 law passed in reaction to America’s perceived inferiority in the space race; ...
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