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Question | Answer |
Amendment | Small Change in the Constitution Adjusting it to make it better |
Assimilate | To understand or take in To grasp onto an idea or a topic to understand. |
Bias | To favor or support one group or another person more than the other due to experience or relationship |
Bicameral | Two branches or Houses in the Government |
Blockade | To trap inside or not let out or in an area |
Boomtown | A city improving in size and value extremely fast |
Capitalism | The system where used by The United States of America government. Controls trade and industry |
Captain of Industry | Business man who was fair with workers and was a hard worker who never treated any man nor women wrong in deals or trade. |
Checks and Balances | When each branch of government has power over the other and keeps them in check and sturdy |
Congress | America's national legislative group Discussions and ideas are talked about and presented here |
Due process of law | No citizen can be denied his or her individual rights. |
Economics | The distribution of money and products in our economy |
Emaciated | To be not allowed to eat and really thin |
Enfranchise | Give the right to vote |
Enumerated | Not listed |
Federalism | National, city, and state governments who do desperate things. |
Forty-Niners | People who came to California for gold and wealth in 1849 |
Free Enterprise | Allowing private companies to do whatever they choose |
Habeus corpus | The right to see a judge or court trial fast |
Industry | The business of manufacturing goods and shipping them to other companies |
Judicial | Branch of government were if a law is broken they are taken to court and Judge on it |
Ku Klux Klan | Group of American terrorists who believed blacks had no rights and southern ways were correct |
Manifest destiny. | The adventure out west to catch the American dream and gain money |
Martyr | Someone Who would die for religious cause |
Monopoly | When one business or another combine and become too powerful for our economy |
Nomadic | Nomad lifestyle. No home no way of life |
Override | To overrule or deny something |
Popular sovereignty | The people of the government source of power |
Ratify | To approve |
Radical | Extreme |
Republicanism | Principles of the republican party |
Robber Baron | A leader of his company who is not fair to his workers and is cruel |
Rural | Outside the city country type feel area |
Separation of powers | One group of the government has power over the other separating the powers |
Social Darwinism | People must fight in the economic world to be successful and adapt |
Suffrage | To not allowed to vote |
Supreme Court | The highest court in all the land nine Judges |
Tariff | Duties is your customs one must show |
Taxation without representation | George was still taxing Americans even know they left the continent of Europe and we can came to America |
Trade union | Group of workers or union who form together to get something they want done |
Urban | City like feel to a place where more industrial type products are made |
Veto | To deny or cancel |
Declaration of Independence | Signed in 1776 this document announced freedom from Britain and gave us our own nation |
Thomas Jefferson | Founding father, author of the Declaration of Independence and saw huge things for America |
Andrew Johnson | President during reconstruction and was known as veto president for always vetoing bills. |
Andrew Jackson | Seventh US President was considered a common man and was very rebellious in like to fight |
Sacajawea | Helped Lewis and Clark travel across United States and find a river from Missouri to the Pacific ocean and help them eat and survive |
James Polk | US president who gained us tons of land from other countries and wanted to expand our are you as president who gained us tons of land from other countries our nation |
Frederick Douglass | Slave who was a huge towards the abolish of slavery and led many speeches and groups |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin and influenced many and showed many how awful slavery really was. |
John Brown | Abolitionist Who was from Kansas and wanted to free all slaves. Harpers Ferry raid |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who led his army to many victories and was a proud Virginia man |
Susan B Anthony | Women's rights leader who believe women were equal to men big lead in women's rights |
Sitting Bull | Chief of the Lakota tribe. Was a huge part of Indian American war |
George Custer | Leader of the Army. Fought against the Lakota tribe and sitting bull and died during the battle |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the men who started our nation. Owned all railroads and was a captain of industry. |
John Rockefeller | John was a captain of industry who owned standard oil and was the richest man to ever live in America. |
Andrew Carnegie | Largest steel meal owner in America. Had more money than most. Helped others out but was unfair. |
Revolutionary War | The war that granted us freedom from Britian and got us to be our own free country. |
Articles of Confederation | Original Piece of writing that ruled how our nation was going to work but was weak. |
Great Compromise. | Compromise that helped us get out of the war against each other of who got what land. |
Passing of the Constitution | The Constitution gave us our rights and are ways of life we followed it every day and must keep doing that to keep our nation running |
Adding to the bill of rights | The Bill of Rights was added to ensure that people would get the things they wanted in laws would be upheld |
Louisiana Purchase | Land purchased from French that expanded our nation a lot. |
Missouri Compromise | The Missouri compromise allowed any state under the 36 30 lines of latitude. |
Indian removal act | Andrew Johnson said that we could have a bigger nation of we moved all the Indians so he did. |
Mexican American war | War between Mexico and America between over Texas and who gets that land. And California |
California gold rush | The California cold was in 49 and many people went to California for gold. |
Homestead act | The homestead act allowed people to stay at their homes and love where they wanted in the States. |
Industrial revolution | The great increase in Industrial improvements and many people had many new improvements |
Underground Railroad | the underground railroad was a path taken to transport slaves to the North |
Seneca Falls Convention | Huge women rights convention in Seneca falls new york |
Compromise of 1850 | Replaced the Missouri compromise and gained land from Mexican American war was free land |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Kansas was a free state and so was Nebraska and this was the result of this act |
Dredd Scott Vs. Sanford | Dredd Scott wen to the supreme court to see if he was a free man because he lived in a free state |
Fugitive Slave act | any escaped slave will be returned to their owner without question |
Bleeding Kansas | many battles were fought to see if Kansas was a free state or slave state |
Civil War | The war fought to decide if north and south could become one nation again |
Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all slaves in the south and didn't free the slaves of the border states |
Civil War Drafts | Drafts held to get people into the civil war so we can have more troops |
Gettysburg Address | Abe Lincolns speech about the war and who was going to win and what was going to happen |
Reconstruction | The reconstruction of our nation after the civil war and we were rebuilding |
Civil war amendements | 13th, 14th and 15th amendments |
Completion of the transcontinental railroad | the railroad that went all the way across the nation and many new cities went huge. |
Indian Wars | The Indian wars are wars fought over Indian territories |
Gilded Age | The Gilded age was a time when we were booming our industry and many people opened new businesses and many became rich |
Populist Party | The party started in Kansas that was meant for farmers who could fight for evenness |
Plessy V. Ferguson | A fair trial between whites and blacks where fair trials were held and many were satisfied |
Jamestown | first settlement in America |
Plymouth | First religious settlement, pilgrims |
Lexington and Concord | First battle of revolutionary war |
Erie Canal | Canal across New York |
The alamo | battle in Texas that was fought between Mexicans an Americans |
Harpers Ferry | John Brown led a raid to harpers ferry to lead a slave rebellion. |
Fort Sumter | Where the first battle of the civil war took place. |
Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle in civil war |
Appromattix Courthouse | General Robert E. Lee surrendered the war. |
Fords Theature | Abe Lincoln got shot in the fords theater and John Wilkes booth did it there. |
Promontory Point | Where the two trains met from east and west in the middle. |
Ellis and Angel Island | The two main immigration places where people are going to come to America. |
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