Social studies vocab 3/25
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- agent
- a person who acts for or represents another
- Oregon Trail
- the trail blazed by pioneers who moved from Missouri to Oregon country
- discrimination
- action or policies against a minority or group
- underground
- a system set up by opponents of slavery to help slaves free from the South get to the North
- fugitive slave law
- a law that made it easier for slave holders to get run away slaves returned to them
- terrain
- land and landforms including deserts, mountains, and valleys
- republican party
- a political party made up of people who wanted to keep the western territories free of slavery
- Manifest Destiny
- the belief that America should expand its territorial limits
- certificate of freedom
- paperwork that proved that a slave had been freed or had bought his or her freedom
- temperance
- moderation in drinking alcohol or total abstinence from drinking alcohol
- annex
- to add on or attach
- abolitionist
- a person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it
- conductor
- a person who helped runaway slaves to hide and escape
- common man
- the average American citizen whose concerns are represented in government
- Tejano
- a Texan of Mexican descent