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Flashcards by Christopher Sprenger, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Christopher Sprenger
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change made to a document Ex: Bill of Rights |
| Bias | When a person favors one thing over another thing |
| Blockade | When you prevent someone passage to a certain place you have formed this |
| Capitolism | The Idea of competition in economics and privately owned companies gaining money for themselves not the government |
| Captain of Industry | A person who is very successful because he works hard and fairly. He also gives his earnings fairly and doesn't take them all for himself |
| Assimilate | To adopt another cultures beliefs and practices as your own |
| Bicameral | Two chambers of the legislative branch House of Rep. and Senate |
| Boomtown | A town that quickly progresses in business and population Ex: Pittsburgh |
| Checks and Balances | allows no one branch to become more powerful than the other by being able check them. |
| Congress | It's another name for the legislative branch of the US government that is made up of the Senate and the House of Rep. |
| Due process of law | Found in the 5th amendment in the Bill of Rights, due process means that no matter who you are, you get the same treatment as everyone else in the courthouse. |
| Economics | Deals with goods and services given to people and making money. Ex: If the economy is low then there aren't enough goods to make money |
| Emancipated | When you are given freedom. |
| Enfranchise | To give someone the right to vote. |
| Enumerated | Listed |
| Federalism | The system that says there is separation between Federal, State, and Local government. |
| Forty-niners | Prospectors who moved to California in 1849 for the Gold Rush. |
| Free Enterprise | Says that the economy is open to anybody not just certain companies. |
| Habeas Corpus | Says that you are entitled to the right to be seen by a judge quickly. You arn't just staying in prison for years because of Habeas Corpus. |
| Industry | When you are a company that manufactures a good you are an industry. |
| Judicial | The branch that interprets new laws and declares them unconstitutional if it violates the constitution. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A white supremacist group that terrorized free African Americans during reconstruction and during the early 1900's. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that all the land in what is now the US belonged to us and everyone who was on is was in our way of getting it. |
| Martyr | A person who dies for a religious reason. |
| Monopoly | When you own everything that has to do with one industry. Ex: Standard Oil monopoly |
| Nomadic | When you and your group do not settle in one place but instead roam around everywhere. |
| Override | When congress passes a bill that the president has vetoed by having a 2/3's majority is an override. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The government is run by the people. |
| Ratify | To approve of |
| Radical | Not normal or crazy. |
| Robber Baron | A wealthy person who got wealthy by being greedy and not paying their workers fair wages. |
| Rural | A community that is in the country. Is more agriculture based. |
| Separation of Powers | Splits up the jobs of the government into 3 branches, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. |
| Social Dawrwinism | The theory that some people are born under better circumstances and are more successful than others in society. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in america/top of the judicial branch |
| Tariff | something you have to pay when importing or exporting goods. |
| Taxation without representation | When the government taxes the people without them having a say in what the government does. |
| Trade Union | A group of workers who get together to force companies into giving them fair wages and working hours. |
| Urban | A community that is based in the city and is focused more around manufacturing goods in factories/industrial work. |
| Veto | To reject. Ex: when the president says no to a bill. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the 3rd President He bought Louisiana Purchase Founding Father |
| Andrew Jackson | First Common President was a general during the War of 1812 Was in many duels |
| Sacagawea | Guide for Lewis and Clark |
| James K. Polk | 11th President Gained most land for US Nicknamed Mr. Manifest Destiny |
| Frederick Douglass | Wrote famous autobiography Was an escaped slave Avid abolitionist |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin Abolitionist |
| John Brown | Violent Abolitionist Raided Harper's Ferry Federal Arsenal Responsible for lots of violence during Bleeding Kansas |
| Robert E. Lee | General of Northern Virginia Army Surrendered at Appomattox Confederates best General |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President Known as Veto president White Supremacist |
| Susan B Anthony | Women's Suffrage Leader Was at Seneca Falls Convention |
| Sitting Bull | Native American resistance leader Defeated Gen. George Custer at battle of Little Big Horn |
| George Custer | Major General during Indian Wars Lost battle of Little Big Horn |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the richest men ever his company built most railways funded Vanderbilt University |
| John Rockefeller | Richest man in history Formed Standard Oil which was the first monopoly in america |
| Andrew Carnegie | One of the Richest men to ever live First Steel manufacturer in america First to use Bessemer Process in America |
| Plymouth | Second colony in America Where the first Thanksgiving took place |
| Lexington and Concord | The first official battles of the Revolutionary War |
| Erie Canal | First Major canal in New York Made Cities like Buffalo more populated |
| The Alamo | First battle of the war for Texas's Independance |
| Harpers Ferry | Where the Federal Arsenal was at John Brown raided it |
| Fort Sumter | First Battle of the Civil War Confederate Victory |
| Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle in the Civil War |
| Appomattox Courthouse | The place where the Civil War is considered to have been won by the union Robert E. Lee surrendered there |
| Ford's Theater | Where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated |
| Promontory Point Utah | Where the two sides of the Transcontinental Railroad met |
| Ellis Island | Where most Immigrants from Europe stopped to get into the country during 1800's |
| Angel Island | Where most Immigrants from Asia came to america from during 1800's |
| Declaration of Independence | Letter to King George saying we were no longer under his rule |
| Revolutionary War | The War against England for our freedom as a country |
| Articles of Confederation | The First failed constitution that was missing the executive branch |
| Great Compromise | allowed for the Legislative branch to be split up so one part is for the population of a state and the other is equal and everyone has two people per state. |
| Passing the Constitution | Some people wouldn't let the constitution be passed unless a bill of rights was added so they had to promise them one. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | It was a couple years until the bill of rights was added and then there was peace between the federalist and anti-federalist |
| Louisiana Purchase | Made by Thomas Jefferson. Nearly doubled the size of the United States |
| Missouri Compromise | First Compromise on slavery. Allowed slavery in Missouri and all the rest of the states that were under it |
| Indian Removal Acts | Forced Native Americans off their land and onto reservations |
| Mexican American War | War between Mexico and America over the border between the two countries |
| California Gold Rush | Gold was discovered in California 1848 and many people moved out there to mine for gold |
| Homestead Act | Allowed Settlers to settle on an unclaimed piece of land and plant on it and it would be theirs |
| Industrial Revolution | Where society started to become more Urban based and there were more cities. |
| Underground Railroad | A system of houses an escaped slave would follow to get to the North or Canada |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Was the first women's suffrage convention |
| Compromise of 1850 | Allowed California to enter as a free state and states from now on would decide whether they were free or slave. Got rid of Mo. Comp. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed Kansas and Nebraska residents to choose if they were free or slave. Gave advantage to the northern states because now there would be more of them. Started Bleeding Kansas. |
| Dred Scott Decision | Said that slaves no matter where they were would never be free or be citizens if they were free. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Allowed slave owners to go to the north and get their escaped slaves back. |
| BleedingKansas | The Result of Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers fighting over if Kansas would be a free or a slave state. |
| Civil War | War between north and south over the issue of slavery and individual state's rights |
| Emancipation Proclamation | During the civil war, it set slaves free who were in areas of rebellion/the southern states that succeded |
| Civil War draft riots | Riots in major cities over the draft because the rich could buy a substitute to fight for them so the poor had to fight but the rich didn't. |
| Gettysburg Address | After Gettysburg, Abe Lincoln went to Gettysburg to commemorate the people who fought there and to motivate all the other troops to keep fighting. |
| Reconstruction | the time period after the civil war where the south was rebuilding and the African Americans were adjusting to being free. |
| Civil War Amendments | All Amendments Concerning Slaves. 13th abolished slavery 14th gave citizenship to African Americans 15th gave African Americans the right to vote |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | Was Important because now traveling was even easier and business could be done across the country. |
| Indian Wars | Indians wanted the whites to leave them alone on their land and they didn't want to move to reservations so they fought back. |
| Gilded Age | A time period where big business was happening and people became super wealthy. |
| Populist Party | they represented the common man and were a third major political party. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that said separate but equal was okay in america. |
| Republicanism | The People are able to choose who they want to represent them. |
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