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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | Something that is added to the bill of rights. |
| Assimilate | To fully understand |
| Bias | When someone is giving more favor to another then someone else |
| Bicameral | A legislative body |
| Boomtown | A town that suddenly grows in population |
| Blockade | To block something a certain area from going in or out |
| Capitalism | A system that has losers and winners |
| Captain of Industry | Someone that build a corporation and gives fair pay to his/hers workers |
| Checks & Balances | It is a system were the 3 governments checking each other and gives balance of power |
| Congress | Apart in the legislative branch that has two houses: senate and house of reps. |
| Due Process | States have there own rights but must also follow the governments rights. |
| Economics | Amount of money in there area and its growth |
| Emancipated | To be free |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | Mentioning separately |
| Federalism | A system of government |
| Forty-Niners | Someone in the Gold Rush |
| Free Enterprise | A system were private business operates in competition |
| Habeas Corpus | A person that is under arrest and then they get to see a judge or jury |
| Industry | A place that makes stuff from raw material |
| Judicial | The court or a judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of people that don't like blacks being free and want white supremacy |
| Manifest Destiny | When white settlers moved West |
| Martyr | A person who fights for there religious cause |
| Monopoly | where a single company owns all the market for there product |
| Nomadic | Of relating to or characteristics of nomads |
| Override | when something gets overturned |
| Popular Sovereignty | People give the government power |
| Ratify | Sign or give formal consent |
| Radical | Extreme |
| Republicanism | Republicans |
| Robber Baron | Somebody that doesn't give there workers fair pay and not good working condition |
| Rural | Country |
| Separation Of Powers | In the three branch the branches are separated |
| Social Darwinism | The belief of losers and winners |
| Suffrage | Someone that was for women's right to vote |
| Supreme COurt | The highest court |
| Tariff | Tax or duty to be paid on a particular class |
| Taxation Without Representation | Boston tea party |
| Trade UNion | Workers that help people to make safe working conditions |
| Urban | City |
| Veto | When the president doesn't like the bill he'll ____ it |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state second vice president and, as the third president |
| Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual. Shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel died at the Hermitage; Jackson apparently believed the negative attacks had hastened her death. |
| Sacajawea | Lead settlers through america and translated for them |
| James Polk | Bought Louisiana territory |
| Fredrick Douglass | Was a black writer |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin |
| John Brown | Was in charge of the Harper's Ferry Raid |
| Robert E. Lee | Best general in civil war |
| Andrew Johnson | Almost got impeached |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's right activist |
| Sitting Bull | Last Indian to fight in a war against america |
| George Custer | General who killed many Indians |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Invested in railroads and was captain of industry |
| John Rockefeller | Made his money off of steel |
| Andrew Carnegie | Made his money off of oil |
| Jamestown | First american settlement |
| Plymouth | Second american settlement |
| Lexington and Concord | There was a battle here |
| Erie Canal | Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. |
| The Alamo | The battle of the Alamo happened here |
| Harper's Ferry | In October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harper's Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown |
| Fort Sumter | First battle in civil war |
| Gettysburg | This is where the bloodiest battle happened |
| Appomattox Courthouse | This is were the civil war officially ended |
| Fords Theater | This is where Lincoln got assassinated |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Promontory Summit, Utah is the location where the United States' first Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869. The two railroads that joined were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. |
| Ellis and Angel Island | From 1910-1940, Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated |
| Declaration Of Independence | Gave freedom to america |
| Revolutionary War | British and Americas war |
| Articles of Confederation | First written constitution of the United States. Stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states before was it was ratified on March 1, 1781. |
| Great Compromise | Large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States |
| Passing Constitution | After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 106b. |
| Adding Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as the first ten amendments on December 15, 1791 |
| Louisiana Purchase | Bought from France |
| Missouri Compromise | federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories |
| Indian Removal Act | 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 |
| Mexican-American War | marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico |
| Gold Rush | People were finding gold in California |
| Homestead Act | encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. |
| Industrial Revolution | was the transition to new manufacturing processes |
| Underground Railroad | a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States |
| Seneca Falls Convention | At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States |
| Compromise of 1850 | January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Scott lost and blacks couldn't sew a white |
| Fugitive Slave Act | If a black was caught in the North they would have to return them |
| Bleeding Kansas | a series of violent political confrontations in the United States |
| Civil War | War against North and South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free. |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Rioters torched government buildings and, on July 15, fought pitched battles with troops. |
| Gettysburg Addres | dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | 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 | are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | It allowed goods and people to travel quicker and safer |
| Indian Wars | Indians would get in wars with america but it was really the other way around |
| Gilded Age | 30 yrs after Civil War |
| Populist Party | movement was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the case and held the Louisiana segregation |
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