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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A minor change in a document example-adding an amendment to the constitution (19th amendment gave women rights to vote) 19th time its been changed |
| Assimilate | To change a group of people to make them just like you. one group of people forces or you can voluntarily do it. |
| Bias | an attitude that always one way of thinking or feeling. |
| Bicameral | Bi-two Cameral-house The legislative branch has 2 parts. The house of representatives is based off of population and the senate its based off of the equality. |
| Blockade | To prevent goods or people from going in and out. |
| Boomtown | A town that's expanding with population. |
| Border state | A border state is a slave state that fought for the North. |
| capitalism | An economic philosophy based on private ownership and competition. |
| Checks and balances | each branch of government has some sort of power over the other two. no one group or person has all the power. |
| Due possess of law | when the government has to follow certain steps In a court. Ex.5th amendment no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property 14th amendment many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens |
| exoduster | African Americans who moved from the south to Kansas |
| federalism | the sharing of power between national and state governments. |
| 49ners | somebody moving to California to look for gold in 1849. |
| Free enterprise | A company free of government control or little. |
| Habeas Corpus | The right for a prisoner to be seen before a judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | A mean group of white people who wanted to strike fear and keep white people on top |
| Manifest destiny | Americans believed it was gods destiny to expand from east to west coast |
| Martyr | somebody who dies for a religious cause |
| Monopoly | When somebody controls the aspect of the market so no competitors |
| Nomadic | Groups of people who travel a lot because animals were moving mainly Native Americans |
| Override | To reject someone's authority or cancel a decision |
| Popular sovereignty | Its a doctrine or belief that government is created by a subject to the will of the people |
| Ratify | making something valid by formerly confirming it |
| Radical | someone who has extreme views. so you could say their views are different from the root up |
| Republicanism | Its one persons opinion that runs the government the best way |
| Rural | Area with very little stuff besides land ex. western Kansas, parts of Missouri |
| separations of power | A principle of the United States government where powers and responsibilities are divided among the legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch |
| Sharecropping | is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land |
| Social Darwinism | Theories that attempt to legitimize social inequality and explain social classes and processes |
| Suffrage | A legal right guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment American women got the vote in 1920 |
| Tariff | A tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods |
| Trade union | An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer |
| urban | Urban is city or town Non ex farm land |
| Veto | It means the president can say no to a law |
| George Washington | He was our first president. he was the commander and chief of the continental army during the American revolution war. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the 3rd president author of the declaration of independence. He bought Louisiana purchase |
| Andrew Jackson | He was the first common president. He sighed the Indian removal act |
| Sacagawea | She was an Indian omen that went with Lewis and Clark on there expedition. She helped them on trails and how to get there she translated to other Indians she also saved them from being shot buy Indians. She later met up with her brother and saw him again. |
| Nat Turner | He was an African-American slave who led the slave rebellion act and then in the south they went on a huge killing spree. |
| James K Polk | He 11th president. years of president (1845-1849).He got Oregon territory |
| Frederick Douglass | He was a former slave who became an adviser to the presidents. In 1838 He boarded a ship and ran away. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She is best known for writing (Uncle Tom's Cabin) about slavery |
| John Brown | He's known for being a crazy abolitionist. He wanted to give the slaves guns |
| Robert E. Lee | He was best known for commanding the confederate army of Virginia during the civil war. |
| U.S. Grant | he is our 18th president. He was best known for being the lead general of the union troops in the civil war. |
| Jefferson Davis | He is an American soldier and politician who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War |
| Andrew Johnson | He was the 17th President of the United States serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination |
| Susan B Anthony | She was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement |
| Sitting Bull | He was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies |
| George Custer | He was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | He was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. He is also one of the richest mans in America. |
| John d Rockefeller | He was a cofounder of the Standard Oil Company which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. And eventually he became a monopoly because he had so much money to buy his own trains for transporting stuff. |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. He also gave away to charities and foundations about $350 million. |
| American Colonies | The Thirteen Colonies of 1775 were British colonies on the east coast of North America |
| Texas Republic | Formed as a separate nation after gaining independence from Mexico in 1836, the republic claimed borders that included all of the present U.S. state of Texas as well as parts of present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. It also means Texas wanted to be its own state. |
| Harper's Ferry | John brown raided harpers ferry on October 16-18 in 1859. Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. |
| Fort Sumter | Fort Sumter was the first war of the civil war. Confederate states took over Fort Sumter and for 4 years the union states tried to take it back |
| Gettysburg | The battle of Gettysburg was the biggest battle in the civil war. It was fought July 1st-3rd. Its called Gettysburg because it was fought by Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The union fighters won the war. |
| Vicksburg | The battle of Vicksburg was may18 through July 4th it was also a big war. Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. The union won the battle of Vicksburg. |
| Little Big Horn | Little Big Horn was a battle between General Custers army and Sitting Bulls tribe. Its also known as Custers last stand because Sitting Bull and his tribe won |
| wounded knee | The Wounded Knee Massacre was an attack upon the Sioux by the United States Army at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on December 28, 1890. |
| Ellis island and angel island | Ellis island was the first island to open up and let immigrants into New York. Most immigrants going to New York came from Europe, Poland, and Germany. Angel island opened up later and let immigrants into California. Most immigrants going to California where from Russia, and china |
| Revolutionary war | The revolutionary war was between great Britain and the13 American colonies was in 1775 to 1783. America won there independence. |
| Articles of confederation | The Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States. Its process was slowed down because fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states. This was before it got ratified on March 1st 1781. |
| Great Compromise | The great compromise was between the house of representatives and the senate. It was not fair when they made votes because bigger states got more representatives and the smaller states got less representatives. So they compromised senate is based off equality and the house is based off population |
| Bill of rights | The bill of rights is the first 10 amendments on the constitution. The bill of rights protects the individual rights, liberty, and freedom. |
| Louisiana purchase | The Louisiana purchase was in 1803 and we bought the Louisiana purchase from France for 15 million dollars. The Louisiana purchase was approximately 827,000 square miles. |
| Missouri compromise | The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. |
| Indian removal act (trail of tears) | The Indian removal ac was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. Its also called trail of tears |
| Mexican American war | The war in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles 1,300,000 square km of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. |
| California gold rush | The California gold rush began in January 24,1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States. The gold rush actually started in 1849 because that's when everyone started showing up. |
| homestead act | president Abraham Lincoln signed it into law May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. Homestead means a house but specifically a farm house. |
| Industrial revolution | The industrial revolution was the change from manual labor to factory's making stuff. |
| underground railroad | The underground railroad was secrets routs for slaves and safe houses in the 19th century. They used the underground railroad pacifically because it was safe. Slaves were also trying to get to Canada. |
| Seneca falls convention | The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman |
| Compromise of 1850 | Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished. |
| Kansas-Nebraska act | The Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opening new lands for settlement. |
| dread Scott vs. Sanford | Dread Scott vs. Sanford was a landmark decision by U.S. supreme court. Held that African Americans were enslaved or free to be American citizens. |
| Fugitive slave act | The fugitive slave act was passed by U.S. Congress September 17, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Stators and pro-slavery Border Ruffian elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. |
| civil war | The civil war was from 1861-1865 between the union and the confederate. 600,000 soldiers died in this war. The union won the civil war. |
| Emancipation proclamation | President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free. |
| civil war draft riots | New York City draft riots were from July 13–16, 1863, known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself. |
| Gettysburg address | The Gettysburg Address was a short, but profound speech given by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863. It is considered today to be one of the greatest speeches ever given. |
| Reconstruction | Reconstruction generally refers to the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union. |
| Civil war amendments 13th, 14th, 15th | The 13th amendment was to ban slavery. The 14th any citizen or person born in to the U.S. or naturalized. The 15th prohibited governments from denying people to vote on race color. |
| Completion of transcontinental railroads | The First Transcontinental Railroad known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route" was a 1,907 mile continuous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. They connected the pacific coast and the eastern coast. |
| Indian wars | The Indian wars were the multiple conflicts between American settlers or the United States government and the native peoples of North America from the time of earliest colonial settlement until 1890. |
| Gilded age | The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today 1873 which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. |
| populist party | The Populist party was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties. For over a decade, farmers were suffering from crop failures, falling prices, poor marketing, and lack of credit facilities. |
| Oklahoma land rush | The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the present-day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the US state of Oklahoma. The land run started at noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
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