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Flashcards by ejmelendez, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | Something added to the Bill of Rights |
| Assimilate | To fully understand something |
| Bias | Favoring something more over something else |
| Bicameral | Government |
| Blockade | To block a certain area from anything going in or out |
| Boomtown | A town that suddenly grows in population |
| Capitalism | Everyone is unique and gets paid a different amount of money depending on their job |
| Captain of Industry | A rich person who is fair to their workers with their money and typically donates a great amount of money to public places |
| Checks and Balances | Keeps the government from getting to much power and limits what they can do to the country |
| Congress | Apart of the legislative branch and has two houses: Senate and House of Representatives |
| Due Process of Law | States have their own rights but must follow the laws |
| Economics | The amount of money in an environment |
| Emancipated | To free |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | To name one by one |
| Federalism | The principal of government |
| Forty-Niners | Another name for the gold searchers in the California Gold Rush |
| Free Enterprise | People or businesses compete for profit |
| Habeas Corpus | To put a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
| Industry | Making raw materials into their final product |
| Judicial | Brought to court or a judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | An organized group that terrorized blacks after the Civil War |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea of expanding North America Westward |
| Martyr | A person killed because of their religious beliefs |
| Monopoly | Controlling supplies or trade in a business |
| Nomadic | To move around a lot |
| Override | A decision |
| Popular Sovereignty | The people can choose who they want their representative to be |
| Ratify | To make official |
| Radical | Something extreme |
| Republicanism | There can be a certain amount of representatives per state |
| Robber Baron | A rich person who doesn't treat their workers right and doesn't give them a fair pay |
| Rural | The country side |
| Separation of powers | 3 branches of government and one doesn't have more power over the other |
| Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest in social ways |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest judicial court in a country or state |
| Tariff | A tax or duty to be paid |
| Taxation Without Representation | People of certain places were taxed by a law |
| Trade Union | A group of workers that stand for their rights |
| Urban | The city or town |
| Veto | To say no to or to reject |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | He founded the Democratic Party |
| Sacagawea | She helped Lewis and Clark on their Corps of Discovery |
| James Polk | He expanded the US from the East Coast the the West Coast |
| Frederick Douglass | He was a former slave and he had to fight through the whites to run away to the North and was successful |
| Harriet Beecher | A white female abolitionist who wrote the book: Uncle Tom's Cabin which is about slavery |
| John Brown | A white male abolitionist who used violence to solve the slavery problem |
| Robert E. Lee | He was a white general in the Civil war for the confederate states and his army lost against the Union |
| Andrew Johnson | He was the Vice President of Lincoln and when Lincoln died and Johnson was president, he did not like the idea of equality between whites and blacks |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was a women rights sufferagist and she was the leader of a group of women |
| Sitting Bull | A man who led a Native tribe against the United States |
| George Custer | He was a well-known soldier who fought in the Civil War with his army |
| Cornelius | He was a Captain of Industry because the was a philanthropist and made his money off of railroads and shipping |
| John Rockefeller | He was a Captain of Industry because he donated money to public places and payed his workers fairly and he made money off of oil. |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was a rich man who was a philanthropist and made his money off of steel |
| Jamestown | It was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas and they grew tobacco there |
| Plymouth | People took the Mayflower there and is the second permanent English settlement |
| Lexington and Concord | It was a battle in the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere told the town that the British were coming |
| Erie Canal | A man made canal that stretched from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York |
| The Alamo | A battle between the US and Mexico and they fought over Texas even though they wanted to be apart of the US |
| Harper's Ferry | John Brown led a group of men to raid the Harper's Ferry and was defeated |
| Fort Sumter | Fort Sumter was a place that was surrounded and was blockaded from anything going in and out until either everyone died or gave up |
| Gettysburg | Abraham Lincoln gave a very famous speech there and it stated that the soldiers should fight hard and win so that the men who died didn't die for nothing |
| Appomattox Courthouse | At that courthouse was where the surrender of the army of northern Virginia surrendered and the Union ended up winning |
| Ford's Theater | This place is a theater where they preform plays and when Abraham Lincoln was watching a play there, a man named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln |
| Promontory Point, Utah | It is where the Lucin Cutoff intersects the east coast of the peninsula |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | This is where the immigration station was for immigrants that were coming into the United States |
| Declaration of Independence | It stated our independence from Great Britain |
| Revolutionary War | It was a war between the US and Britain and it happened because we wanted our independence from them |
| Articles of Confederation | It was the United States first constitution that didn't have enough info to be a very good country |
| Great Compromise | It was a compromise where big and little states would have about equal amounts of representatives |
| Passing of the Constitution | It was when the United States "final draft" of the constitution was passed and we had rights of the people and things that people could not do and they were illegal |
| Adding to the Bill of Rights | Whenever something was added to the bill of rights, it was called an amendment. It usually stated a right that the people of America had |
| Louisiana Purchase | It was a big area of land that was purchased for very little money and it helped a lot with the idea of Manifest Destiny |
| Missouri Compromise | It had to do with slavery and made an invisible line with the US in half stating that there was slavery in the south and Freedom in the North |
| Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) | Andrew Jackson signed it and it stated that the Indians/Native Americans had to move to Oklahoma where there was no good soil and it was the Trail of Tears because the Indians were very sad while they were on the trail of moving |
| Mexican-American War | It was a War between Mexico and the United States and we fought over Texas and whoever won the war got to keep Texas |
| California Gold Rush | People found that there was lots of gold in the state of California so people rushed there and mined for gold to get rich |
| Homestead Act | The government was giving away free land in the West for people in the East and lots of people took the offer because they needed more land than they had originally |
| Industrial Revolution | It was a time period in which technology was getting improved fast and things were being built like machines |
| Underground Railroad | It was a pathway to the North from the South and they were houses that runaway slaves could stay in to get to the North to be free and the leader of it was Harriet Tubman |
| Seneca Falls Convention | It was a place where Women met up into a Union and talked and fought for their voting rights and other rights |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay made the compromise and it stated that slave trades would be abolished in 1850 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | It was an act where Kansas and Nebraska got the choice to be a free or slave state. Kansas chose to be a free state and Nebraska chose to be a slave state |
| Dred Scott v. Stanford | A slave master brought a slave to a free state Illinois where it was illegal so Dred Scott took his master to court and he lost so he was still a slave |
| Fugitive Slave act | All runaway slaves had to be returned to their masters |
| Bleeding Kansas | The pro-slavery people fought against the anti-slavery people in a war |
| Civil War | A huge war consisting of many battles, North v. South |
| Emancipation proclamation | All slaves in the rebellious states were free |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Blacks were drafted and is was a cause of the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg Address | It was like a "halftime talk" of a very big battle given by Abraham Lincoln and he said the people who died shouldn't die for nothing |
| Reconstruction | It was an idea to bring the North and the South back together after the Civil War |
| Civil War Amendments | The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were made during the civil war and were named the Civil War Amendments |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | It was completed on May 10, 1869 in Promontory, Utah |
| Indian Wars | There were many conflicts between America and Indians so they led to wars |
| Gilded Age | It was where there were rich people and the bad ones were Robber Barons and the good ones were Captain of Industries |
| Populist Party | Lots of people went in debt because there were malfunctions happening a lot |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | It was a court case that everyone is "Separate but Equal" between the blacks and whites |
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