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Flashcards by Douglas hotter, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Douglas hotter
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | a change to the constitution |
| Assimilate | to absorb and conform to your surroundings |
| Bias | to favor something over another |
| Bicameral | bi meaning two cameral meaning house so two houses referring to the senate and house of representatives |
| Blockade | to block off an area restricting supplies |
| Boomtown | A town that grows very rapidly |
| Capitalism | A economic system were independent people own and run company's for a profit |
| Captains of industry | company owners that have a lot of money and donate most of it to help the world, nation ,and community |
| Checks and balances | when no one branch can have to much power by the others taking or giving power |
| congress | the house of representatives and the senate who make up laws to help the nation |
| Due process | making sure that every one has the fair rights in court |
| Economics | The way a countryor state deals with money |
| The Emancipated | when someone is freed |
| En franchise | To give some one the right to vote |
| Enumerated | Something that is listed |
| Federalism | The seperation of government between local state and federal |
| Forty-niners | PeoplE |
| Free enterprise | The ability to start a buisness and end a buisness at any time |
| Habeus courpus | The right to see a judge |
| industry | the ability to make something and then sell it |
| ku Klux Klan | a hate group formed by six Tennessee war vetrans |
| Manifest destiny | when we wanted are country to reach to one ocean to the other |
| martyr | a religious hero that either died in battle or was captured |
| monopoly | When one companie takes over a entire trade or industry |
| nomadic | some one that has the mind set to roam around |
| override | to prevail or out vote on something |
| popular sovereignty | when the people power the government |
| ratify | to approve |
| radical | to belive in some thing with extreme passion |
| republicanism | when people elect who they want to represent them |
| Robber Baron | A wealthy person that hordes there money and refuses to pay there workers |
| rural | a area of land that is not industrial |
| separation of powers | when each branch of the government has there own thing to do |
| Social Darwinism | the thought that the intelligent will be wealthy while the one that are lazy will be poor |
| Suffrage | wanting the right to vote |
| supreme court | the highest court in the nation |
| tariff | a list of government imports and exports |
| taxation with out repersentation | when you are being taxed outrageously for no apparent reason |
| trade Union | a group of workers that unite for a common goal |
| urban | a modernized area |
| veto | when the president say no to a bill being passed |
| Thomas Jefferson | the third president he also acquired the Louisiana territory |
| andrew jackson | the 7th president he signed the Indian removal act and loved duelling |
| sacagewea | She served as a guide and translator for Lewis and clark |
| James k. Polk | also known as manifest destiny he bought the most land purchases for the united states |
| Fredrick Douglass | was an escaped slave that started a news paper and wrote a story about his experiences |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | she wrote a novel called uncle toms cabin depicting slavery |
| John Brown | a martyr to some a terrorist to others he led a attack on Harper ferry to arm and free slaves |
| Robert E. Lee | the most well known southern generals |
| Andrew Johnson | he led the country in reconstruction and was the first ever president to be impeached |
| Susan b. anthony | the head women suffragist |
| Sitting Bull | was one of the lead chiefs for the Indian wars and was murdered which caused wounded knee |
| George Custer | he was the only general to be defeated in the Indian wars |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | was one of the richest men in america ever he started the railroad market |
| John Rockefeller | thew richest man ever to live he started gaining money from oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | he was the first major steel manufacturer |
| James town | the first English setlment |
| Plymouth | the 2nd English settlement formed by puritans seeking religious freedom |
| Lexington and concord | the first battle of the revolutionary war |
| eriecanal | the first time Chicago and New York were connected |
| the almo | the biggest battle of the Mexican american war |
| Harpers ferry | the fort John brown attacked to retrieve guns for slaves to uprise |
| Fort sumter | the first battle of the civil war |
| gettysburg | The bloodiest battle and the turning point of the civil war |
| Appomattox court house | the end of the civil war where general lee surrendered to the union |
| Fords Theater | this is were Abraham Lincoln was shot and had a attempted assassination on him |
| promontory point utah | is where the transcontinental railroads met |
| Ellis Island and Angle Island | Ellis island was where most immigrants went to enter the country Angle island is where most Asian immigrants checked in |
| declaration of indpendence | the letter the united states wrote to England saying they didn't want to be apart of this anymore |
| revolutionary war | the war between America And England |
| the articles of confederation | The first counstition |
| the great compromise | was a way to tell how congress would be divided |
| passing of the constitution | when the heads of the government signed how the nation should be run |
| adding the bill of rights | it said that these were laws to help protect the induvidual |
| Louisiana purchase | when we acquired one of the biggest land purchases for 4 cents an acere |
| Missouri Comprimise | decided that any state under the 36 30 line was a slave state |
| trail of tears | when we moved native Americans of there land for white settlers |
| Mexican american war | a war for Texas was what this was |
| California gold rush | when gold was discovered in 1848 people started heading west which caused the population to boom |
| homestead act | an act that guaranteed anyone that moved west would get 160 acres |
| industrial revoultion | when there was a giant spike in invention that propelled America |
| Underground Railroad | a way for slaves to escape and go some were else |
| Seneca falls convention | the first women suffragist convention |
| comprimise of 1850 | is when the fugitive slave act was abolished and so was slave trade |
| Kansas Nebraska act | is when the government but it to the people for deciding whether or not Kansas should be slave or free |
| Dredd Scott verse Sanford | when a slave moved to a free state with his master he wanted to be free so they went to court to figure it out the supreme court said not African american was to ever be free |
| fugitive slave act | said that any slave that was up north can be taken back to his master |
| Bleeding Kansas | when people were fighting for Kansas to be free or slave |
| Civil War | when the north wanted no slaves but the south wanted slaves so they fought for it |
| the emancipation proclamaiton | when the union had control Abe Lincoln said that slaves in rebelling areas were now free |
| Civil war Draft Riots | when the union needed more troops they had to draft people so people got angry and started rioting to stop the drafts |
| Gettysburg address | after the battle of Gettysburg Abe Lincoln wanted to apologize and reunite the nation |
| Reconstruction | was the time period were people were recollecting from the war |
| civil war amendments | these said that blacks were free they could vote and were now citizens and abolished slavery for ever |
| completion of the trans continental rail road | when the two lines met in promontry point utah |
| indian wars | when we wanted land from Indians again so we fought for it |
| Populist party | was the party for the people to take down big companies |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | was when the supreme court ruled for segregation but equal |
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