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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A amendment is a change to the constitution. |
| Assimilate | The fully understand the concept |
| Bias | To be in favor of someone or something |
| Bicameral | To have to sets of groups in the legislative body. |
| Blockade | To prevent shipment or passage through a certain area. |
| Boomtown | A town in great growth in sense |
| Capitalism | When a countries trade is controlled by private owners or the government. |
| Checks and Balances | All branches of the government have some sort of power over each other so one branch doesn't get to strong. |
| Captain of Industry | A owner of a business who takes good care of his workers and donates his money. |
| Congress | The legislative branch of the government or vote on bills and decide laws using yay or nay |
| Due Process of Law | When their is fair treatment in court |
| Economics | Deals with supply and demand, how much money is being made |
| Emancipated | Become free |
| Enfranchise | give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | To establish |
| Federalism | When the power is divided by the Nation, State and local governments |
| Forty-Niners | Someone who took part in the California gold rush |
| Free Enterprise | Companies competing with little government regulations |
| Habeas Corpus | Copper Heads will get arrested if seen protesting against the war and black troops joining. |
| Industry | making products by factories and machines |
| Judicial | The branch that deals with court |
| Ku Klux Klan | For white supremacy and did not agree with the north |
| Manifest Destiny | The expansion from east to west in the U.S. Saying that god was telling them too. |
| Martyr | A person killed because of their religious belief |
| Monopoly | Control of a supply overpowering all the other competition |
| Nomadic | Hunter-Gathierer lifestyle. Move around a lot. |
| Override | To take control and overpower a right or command |
| Popular Sovereignty | Power by the people |
| Ratify | To Approve |
| Radical | Extremist is whatever they do |
| Republicanism | The head of the state represents the people |
| Robber Baron | A northerner who moves to the south looking to find profit on the southerners after the war |
| Rural | relating to, or a countryside characteristics |
| Seperation of powers | All three branches of the government have there own jobs |
| Social Dawinism | The belief of "survival of the fittest" meaning who's best fit for there surroundings |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest federal court system |
| Tariff | Restrict trade and make it more expensive for consumers |
| Taxation without represenation | The British kept taxing American colonist at this time which was one of the reasons that started the revolutionary war |
| Trade Union | Workers in an industry whom trade their products |
| Urban | City/Town |
| Veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision made by the law making-body |
| Thomas Jefferson | third president of the united states and the main author of the declaration of independence |
| Sacagawea | Led Louis and Clark through the Louisiana territory as a guide. |
| Andrew Jackson | Signed the Indian Removal act and is known as the common man president |
| James Polk | Known as Mr. Manifest Destiny for getting the most land while in office |
| Fredrick Douglass | Very smart abolitionist who escaped slavery and was taught to read and write. He was a orator, writer and statesman. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of the book "Uncle Toms Cabin"and was a abolitionist |
| John Brown | Famous for his Raid at Harper's fairy trying to free slaves but failed |
| Robert E. Lee | The General of the Confederate army with great army tactics and skill |
| Andrew Johnson | For slavery during the reconstruction, considered the worst president in history, by only making things worse. |
| Susan B. Anthony | played a giant role in the women suffrage movement |
| Sitting Bull | Resisted united states government policies and fought back , defeating George Cluster |
| George Custer | United states army officer who dealt with cavalry. He got defeated by sitting bull. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | He was a captain of industry who got his money by railroads and shipping. |
| John Rockefeller | He was also a captain of industry who got most of his money from his oil company that dominated the market. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie was a captain of industry who got all of his money off of steel and donated a lot of his wealth to make libraries and schools |
| Jamestown | The first settlement in America which excelled in Tobacco |
| Plymouth | The second colony in america where the first pilgrims came over. Very religious people. |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle(s) of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | The First man made water system which prospered in shipments and goods. |
| The Alamo | A giant battle was fought here against Mexicans and U.S. |
| Harper's Ferry | John brown tried raiding to free slaves but failed. |
| Fort Sumter | This was the start of the civil war when the confederate army surrounded the base. |
| Gettysburg Adress | After the fight at Gettysburg president Abe Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in history. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Where the Civil War officially ended. |
| Fords Theater | This is where president Abe Lincoln was assassinated. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | This is the point where the two railroads met. |
| Ellis and Angel Island | This is where immigrants came to become a legal U.S. citizen. |
| Declaration of Independence | This was the break up letter with Britain saying that we want to be our own country. |
| Revolutionary War | This war took place in america where Britain wanted us to still be apart of them and we wanted to be separate from them. They had highly trained troops while we had militias. |
| Articles of Confederation | The rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Great Compromise | Two upper house representatives from each state and the amount of lower house representatives is based on population. |
| Passing of the Constitution | It had been ratifed (approved) by 2/3 of the house. |
| Adding the bill of rights | There were federalist and Anti-Feds who wanted to add it and who didn't. The bill of rights got shot down a few times but managed to get approved. |
| Louisiana Purchase | The purchase of the midwest territory known as the "american dessert" which we purchased for a steal. 4 cents an acre! |
| Missouri Compromise | Anything above the degree 36, 30 would be a non-slave state and below would we slave. |
| Indian Removal acts | signed by Andrew Jackson to send the indians to the Oklahoma area forcing them on the trail of tears. |
| Mexican-American War | The U.S. wanted Texas, and they wouldn't give it to us so we ended up going to war over it. Resulting in us gaining land. |
| California Gold Rush | A giant amount of gold found in California and people risked there lives to get it. |
| Homestead Act | Supported western migration which provided western migration and if you lived there for 5 years it would be permanently yours. |
| Industrial Revolution | The process from hand made to machine made products |
| Underground Railroad | Where abolitionist helped free slaves |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first convention discussing women suffrage |
| Compromise of 1850 | The slave trade was banned and half of the new land in the west was free and the other wasn't. forced fugitive slave act. |
| fugitive slave act | This allowed any owners to go and get there run away slaves even if they lived in a free state. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed citizens living in kansas and nebraska the decision to vote whether the state would be free or slave state. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | This was a unfair trial where they said drdd was property and that even if he was in a free state he still has to live with his master. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Described the violence that took place after the Kansas-Nebraska act because of the slave/free conflict. |
| Civil War | The civil war is the fight between the north and the south over slaves. This had a major reconstruction. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Allowed slaves in the south if found by troops or people from the north to be free. |
| Civil Right draft riots | There was a giant argument about how rich people could buy themselves out the war and have someone replace them. |
| Gettysburg Adress | This was the speech Abe Lincoln gave after the war at Gettysburg. This went down as one of the best speeches ever given. |
| Reconstruction | This was the recover of the civil war. It took many many many years before things were fine between us and the south. |
| Civil War Amendments | These amendments gave african americans there rights and citizenship. |
| Completion of transcontinental railroad | The railroad that went coast to coast which took years to complete. |
| indian wars | These wars took place because they did not want to go on the trail of tears, or they did not want to follow american rules. performed "ghost dance" |
| Gilded Age | The age where they were robber barons and captain of industries. The first trusts were bing made and the big companies were controlling everyone. |
| Populist party | The peoples party, that started in Kansas. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "separate but equal" a fair case between a white and a black using the laws. |
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