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| Frage | Antworten |
| Amendment | A change in a document |
| Assimilate | To change |
| Bias | To favor a person or group |
| Bicameral | Two branches or chambers |
| Blockade | Never letting something, and never letting something out |
| Boomtown | A town that has grown rapidly |
| Capitalism | My money. (ownership) |
| Captian of industry | A person who makes there money and gives it to charities |
| Checks and balances | Making sure no one overpowers one another. |
| Congress | The national legislative body of a country |
| Due process | respect for the other property of a person |
| Economics | Government money |
| Emancipated | To be free from bondage and slavery |
| Enfranchise | to vote |
| Enumerated | a number of things |
| Federalism | A system of government |
| Forty-Niners | Men in California looking for gold in the gold rush |
| Free Enterprise | A economic system that goes by large and small states |
| Habeus Corpus | legal proceeding |
| Industry | processing material and manufactured goods |
| Judicial | A branch involving local, state, and federal governments |
| Ku Klux Klan | A society to scare blacks and for white supremacy |
| Manifest Destiny | To stretch from coast to coast |
| Martyr | A person killed for their religious beliefs |
| Monoply | to bankrupt or get rid of another buisness |
| Nomadic | A person that is in a tribe and moves place to place without a permanent home |
| Override | to overrule something and not let it go through |
| Popular sovereignty | By the people and for the people, the people are in charge |
| Ratify | Signing and making a document official |
| Radical | A person that does extreme things |
| Republicanism | Governing a society or state |
| Robber Baron | A person who makes money and only cares about himself and is selfish |
| Rural | Characteristic of the country side |
| Seperation of powers | Legislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
| Social Darwinism | The laws of evolution |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections |
| Supreme Court | The highest Judicial court in a country or state |
| Tariff | A tax or duty |
| Taxation without representation | taxing people without their consent |
| Trade Union | another term for a labor union |
| Urban | Characteristic of a city or town |
| Veto | To reject something |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was our founding father, and wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | He was the 7th president and was the one who enforced the Trail of Tears |
| Sacagawea | She helped guide Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
| James K. Polk | He was Mr. Manifest destiny, and the 11th president |
| Frederick Douglass | He was a ex slave and a writer |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She rote a book about the things the south did to slaves |
| John Brown | John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection |
| John Brown | John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection |
| Robert E. Lee | Robert Edward Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia |
| Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson was the 17th President |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was the leader of the suffrage movement |
| Sitting Bull | The leader of the Lakota tribe |
| George Custer | George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | he was the first person to produce steel |
| John Rockefeller | The first person to produce oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was the first person to produce steel |
| Jamestown | |
| Plymouth | |
| Lexington and Concord | |
| Erie Canal | |
| The Alamo | |
| Harper's Ferry | |
| Fort Sumter | |
| Gettysburg | |
| Appomatex | |
| Fords Theater | |
| Promontory Point, Utah | |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | |
| Declaration of Independence | A document made to have liberty and freedom |
| Revolutionary war | American war of independence |
| Articles of Confederation | The first written constitution of america |
| Great compromise | An agreement the large and small states reached |
| Passing the Constitution | Amendments to the United States Constitution, unlike ones made to many constitutions world-wide |
| Adding the bill of rights | Delegates rejected a motion made by George Mason author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 to preface the Constitution of the United States with a bill of rights |
| Louisiana Purchase | 828,000 square miles by the United States from France in 1803. |
| Missouri Compromise | It was a dividing line the divided the north and the south up |
| Indian removal acts | When Andrew made the Indian's move from there land |
| Mexican American war | when the Mexicans and Americans were fighting over land |
| California gold rush | When some people in California found gold and everyone rushed to find some to |
| Homestead act | providing settlers 160 acres of public land |
| Industrial Revolution | when the people were making everything a machine to move faster and produce more |
| Underground Railroad | When Harriet Tubman brought slaves, after she was freed |
| Seneca Falls Convection | This convention marks a major step toward women's equality |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay was trying to turn away the crisis against the north and the south |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | opening new lands for settlement |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | holding that blacks could not be U.S. citizens, exacerbated sectional tensions between North and South |
| Fugitive slave act | provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves |
| Bleeding Kansas | A period of violence during the settling of Kansas territory |
| Civil War | A war against the North and south to decide if slavery is legal or non legal |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A document Abraham Lincoln passed to free slaves |
| Civil War draft riots | A four day violence on New York City during the civil war |
| Gettysburg Address | A 2 minute speech Abraham Lincoln made after the Gettysburg war |
| Reconstruction | The remaining of the war where everyone is repairing the damage of the Civil war |
| Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) | 13th- granted citizenship 14th- Freedom for the blacks 15th- Gave the African Americans the right to vote |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | the completion of the transcontinental railroad enabled the American conquest and settlement of the West |
| Indian Wars | Conflicts between the American soldiers and he Native American Soldiers |
| Gilded Age | The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth |
| Populist Party | A third party movement the came up in the 1890's and drew support from farmers |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad |
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