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Mexican Cession
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historical name for the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War
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Gadsden Purchase
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the strip of land to the American Southwest in order to railroad and was bought from Mexico called
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Edgar Allen Poe
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an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics? (Wrote detective and crime fiction
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature? (Wrote the Scarlett Letter
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Hermal Melville
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an American novelist, essayist and poet and wrote Moby Dick
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Henry David Thoreau
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an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden
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Walt Whitman
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American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist whose most famous works are the collections of poetry Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps
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Dorothea Dix
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social activist who wanted to create asylums for the insane
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William Lloyd Garrison
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is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Frederick Douglass
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a former slave who fought for the abolishment of slavery and had the newspaper the North Star
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Sarah Grimke
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an abolitionist but also fought very hard for woman’s rights
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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a social activist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States and played a major role in the Seneca Falls Convention and was the principle writer of the Declaration of Sentiment
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Lucretia Mott
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the first major American women's activist in the early 1800s and is credited as the first "feminist", but more accurately, the launcher of women's political advocacy and signed the Declaration of Sentiment in the Seneca Falls Convention
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Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
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written during the Seneca Falls Convention that included a list of grievances followed by the rights of women and was the most important document that would push forward the women's rights movement; (All men and women are created equal)
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Horace Mann
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leading advocate of the common public school system
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Dred Scott decision
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decision was based off a slave trying to receive freedom for living on a free territory and the decision ruled that slaves are property
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Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion
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slave rebellion that failed
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