Ch 7 The Early Years Of Statehood

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frontier

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the edge of a settled area

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Big Tree Treaty

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agreement in which the Seneca sold nearly all their land to the Holland Land Company

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War of 1812

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war between the United States and Great Britain

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Treaty of Ghent

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treaty signed in 1814 by the US and Great Britain that ended the war of 1812

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Red Jacket

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Seneca leader who did not want to sell the Iroquois land to the Holland Land Company

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Mary Jemison

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settler in the Genese River Valley after the American Revolution; received land on Gardeau Flats from the Big Tree Treaty

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Joseph Ellicott

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map maker for the Holland Land Company; founder of the settlement of Buffalo in 1801

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Nathaniel Rochester

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founder of the settlement of Rochester on the Genesee River in 1803

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Utica

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city on the Mohawk River; important starting point for settlers moving west in the 1800's

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Geneseo

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village on the Genesee River; location of the Big Tree Treaty in 1797

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Buffalo

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city and port on Lake Erie; end point on the Erie Canal

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Rochester

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city on the Genesee River and port on the Erie Canal; major New York center for industry

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canal

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inland waterway built for transportation or irrigation

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lock

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kind of water elevation that moves boats within a canal to a higher or lower level

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toll

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small fee people pay to use a canal or road

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Robert Fulton

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builder of the first successful steamboat in 1807

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DeWitt Clinton

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New York governor who supported the building of the Erie Canal

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Erie Canal

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canal that runs over 350 miles from Buffalo to Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson river

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Lockport

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city on the Erie Canal, series of five locks were built to allow boats to pass a 60foot drop in elevation

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industry

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all the businesses that make one kind of good or provide one kind of service

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tanning

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method of scraping and soaking animal skins to make leather

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Industrial Revolution

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major change starting in the 1800's in which power driven machines replace hand tools

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factory

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business where goods are made in large numbers

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landscape

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a painting that shows a view of the outdoors

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Hudson River School

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a group of artists who became known fro their painting of the Hudson River

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Immigrant

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a person who comes to a new country to live

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famine

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time of shortage of food and many people go hungry

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Croton Aqueduct

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pipeline that brings water from the Croton River to NYC

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Isacc Singer

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inventor of the singer sewing machine

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James Fenimore Cooper

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NY writer of stories about the frontier

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Washington Irving

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writer whose work include the Sketch book

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Thomas Cole

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painter associated with the Hudson River School

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Fredrick Edwin Church

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landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School

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Syracuse

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city on the Finger Lakes region; important port on the Erie Canal

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Gloversville

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city in central NY; glove making center in the US

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Olana

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home of painter Fredric Edwin Church; located near the town of Hudson

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Central Park

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large public park in NYC built between 1857 and 1876

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reform

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change to make things better

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suffrage

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the right to vote

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citizen

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person born in a country or who earns the right to become a member of the country by law

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abolition

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ending or doing away with completely

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underground railroad

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group of people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom along a secret route before and during the Civil War

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Fredrick Douglas

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abolitionist who escaped from slavery and spoke out against slavery; founded an antislavery newspaper in Rochester called NorthStar

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Elizabeth Candy Stanton

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abolitionist and women's rights leader

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Susan B. Anthony

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abolitionist and womens rights leader

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William Lloyd Garrison

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abolitionist who started the American Antislavery Society in 1833

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Samuel Cornish

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African American abolitionist who together with John Russwurm, started the first African American newspaper; Freedom's Journal

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John Russwurm

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abolitionist who together with Samuel Cornish started the newspaper Freedom's Journal

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Sojourner Truth

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abolitionist wo escaped from slavery in 1827; spoke out for abolitionist of slavery and for women's rights

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Harriet Tubman

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escaped slavery in 1849; became a conductor on the underground railroad and made trips to slave states to free others

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Seneca Falls

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village in the Finger Lakes region; location of the first women's rights convention in 1848