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Question | Answer |
Amendment | Things added to the constitution that give American citizens more powers and rights. |
Assimilate | To take in and make as your own. |
Bias | When someone shows favoritism towards someone or something. |
Bicameral | Bi means two and cameral means house. two houses of congress/legislature/senate. |
Blockade | To block out port cities so they cant get or ship anything in or out. |
Capitalism | Americans use this. The idea of having competition between people and businesses. |
Captain of Industry | People who are at the top of the business. They are smart and have earned to be where they are. |
Checks and Balances | To keep one of the branches of government from becoming to powerful. |
Due process of Law | Fair treatment through the normal judicial system |
Economics | The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth |
Emancipated | To be free of something; mostly referring to a slave |
Enfranchise | Give the right to vote to |
Enumerated | Establish the number of. |
Federalism | A method of government that allows 2 or more entries to share control. The United States uses this. |
Forty-niners | People that came to California for the gold rush in 1849 were called this. |
Free enterprise | An economic system in which private businesses operate in competition and largely free of state control. |
Habeas Corpus | A law requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. |
Industry | Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories. |
Judicial | Appropriate to a court or Judge. |
Ku Klux Klan | America's first terrorist group; meant to strike fear to Blacks and showed white supremacy. |
Martyr | A person who dies for their religion or beliefs. |
Manifest Destiny | The belief of expanding westward |
Monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity of service. |
Boomtown | When a city or town booms with in population. |
Nomadic | When a person moves around a lot. |
Override | When congress rejects a decision or idea |
Popular sovereignty | The government is created and sustained by the people. (rule by the people) |
Ratify | To say yes to or approve. |
Radical | Extreme. |
Republicanism | Society or state as a republic where the head of state is a representative of the people who hold popular sovereignty. |
Robber Baron | Cruel business men who stop at nothing to achieve great wealth. |
Rural | The countryside or farming towns; opposite of the City or Urban. |
Separation of Powers | To make the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government are in separate bodies. |
Social Darwinism | The theory that people are to the same laws of survival of the fittest. |
Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. |
Tariff | A tax to be paid particularly of imports and exports. |
Taxation without representation | A slogan of The Revolutionary War, when the British would tax the American colonist. |
Trade Union | To promote the common interest. Also a labor Union. |
Urban | The opposite of rural; city life, busy, big. |
veto | When the president says no to a bill. |
Thomas Jefferson | Our 3rd president. Made the Louisiana Purchase with the French. |
Andrew Jackson | Americas first common man president. |
Sacagawea | Famous Native American who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition as a translator and tour guide. |
James K Polk | Mr Manifest Destiny, got the most land than any other American president. |
Frederick Douglass | Escaped Slave who wrote about his experiences. First American abolitionist. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Toms Cabin. |
John Brown | A violent abolitionist, led the terrorist attack in Harpers ferry, Virginia |
Robert E lee | The Confederate soldier who won the most battles for the South. Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse |
Andrew Johnson | The president that took over after Abraham Lincoln. Also the president that vetoed the most bills. |
Susan B Anthony | Leader of the woman's suffrage, partnered up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Sitting Bull | Leader of the Lakota tribe. Was shot and killed at wounded Knee. |
George Custer | An American General who lost his life at Little Bighorn. |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | Made his gigantic profit off of transportation. |
John Rockefeller | The richest man to ever live, made his profit off of oil. |
Andrew Carnegie | Made this big profit off of steel, first created in Pittsburgh. |
Jamestown | The first American settlement established in 1607. |
Plymouth | The 2nd American settlement established in 1620. Had the first Thanksgiving here. |
Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the Revolutionary war. Paul Revere sounded the alarm "the British are coming" |
Erie Canal | The first man made water way in America extending across central New York. |
Alamo | One of the famous historical sites fought at in the Mexican American War. |
Harpers Ferry | The site where the terrorist attack led by John Brown took place. |
Fort Sumter | The first battle in the Civil War. The confederates won. |
Gettysburg | The bloodiest battle in all of the Civil War. |
Appomattox Courthouse | Where Robert E Lee surrendered ending the Civil War. |
Fords Theatre | Where president Abe Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. |
Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Pacific railroads join together. |
Ellis and Angel Island | The ports where immigrants would come into America. Ellis island where the European immigrants and Angel island is where Usually Chinese came. |
Declaration Of Independence | This document established that America is its own country and not under British rule. |
Revolutionary War | The war that made America break away from British rule, America won. |
Articles of Confederation | Document that stated as the 13 colonies first constitution. |
The Great Compromise | Made for proportional representation in the house, and one representative per state in the senate. |
Passing of the Constitution | Established Americas national government and fundamental laws and guaranteed citizens certain basic rights. |
Adding the Bill of Rights | To ensure individual freedom and several of which apply to criminal law rights. |
Louisiana Purchase | Signed by Thomas Jefferson, given by the French gave the U.S. 827,000 sq. miles of land. |
Missouri Compromise | Ensured that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state. Meant to balance out slave and free states. |
Indian Removal Act or trail of Tears | Signed by Andrew Jackson, made 5 Indian tribes walk several miles to Oklahoma while many didn't survive on the way. |
Mexican-American War | The war between Mexico and America settling the dispute over Texas |
California Gold Rush | In 1849 that spiked miners to come to California over gold. |
Homestead Act | Federal laws that gave applicant ownership of land, typically at little or no cost. |
Industrial Revolution | The part in time that spiked rural towns to become into Urban cities. Mostly everything was invented in this time period. |
Underground Railroad | Organized by Harriet Tubman, a secret organization that gave thousands of slaves the chance to runaway. |
Seneca Falls Convention | The first convention that helped woman's suffrage rights led by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton |
Compromise of 1850 | Creating California as a free state and the rest of Mexican territory voted by popular sovereignty. |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | The act that decided whether Kansas and Nebraska would be a free or slave state decided by popular sovereignty. |
Fred Scott V. Sanford | The decision that stated whether the Missouri slave would be free or a slave in the North. |
Fugitive Slave Act | The Act that enforced all runaway Slaves to be returned to their owners or the South. |
Bleeding Kansas | Series of violent political confrontations in the USA involving anti slavery free staters and pro slavery Border Ruffians. |
Civil War | The war that decided the disputes between the North and South, mostly belonging to Civil War. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln, stated that all Slaves are free. |
Civil War draft riots | Riots disputed when Union and Confederates needed people to fight in the war and were drafted into it. |
Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincolns famous speech right after the battle of Gettysburg. |
Reconstruction | Era after the civil war. |
Civil War amendments | The 13th 14th and 15 amendments |
Transcontinental Railroad | This made imported goods be able to ship faster and get across the U.S. |
Indian Wars | Several disputes between Native Americans and Americans. The last won was Wounded Knee. |
The Gilded Age | The time period after the Industrial Revolution. |
Populist Party | Created in 1891, a party to help the common people. |
Plessy V Ferguson | Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities containing to "separate but equal" |
Congress | Legislature of the federal government of consisting of two houses; the senate and House of Representatives |
Supreme Court | Highest court in the judicial branch. |
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