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Question | Answer |
Amendment | A law that was added to the constitution |
Assimilate | take in or understand new ideas |
Bias | to favorite one side of a argument |
Blockade | a way to stop or prevent something from happening |
Bicameral | having two branches |
boomtown | a town that goes rapidly due to wealth |
Capitalism | when a countries wealth is controlled by private people |
Captain of industry | during the industrial revolution people who got wealthy helped the country in a good way |
Checks and Balances | a way to keep the government in order |
Congress | a body of government for that country |
Due process of law | fair treatment through the judicial court system |
Economics | a branch that needs you to have knowledge |
Emancipated | to be freed/liberated |
Enfranchise | a way people can carry out commercials granted by the government or a company |
Enumerated | a way to say a order of things |
Federalism | a system of goverment |
Forty-Niners | a person in the gold rush in California in 1849 |
Free Enterprise | when private business people compete without state control |
Habeas Corpus | the right to be seen by a judge or jury |
Industry | activity doing with raw materials |
Judical | a court or judge |
Ku Klax Klan | an organization in the south that wanted whites to be the leaders |
Manifest Destiny | In the 19th century people believed we should expand west |
martyr | someone who would die than change religons |
Monopoly | control over companies by having a trust with others |
Nomadic | relating to |
Override | to reject a veto by having 2/3 |
Popular Sovereignty | the people run the goverment |
Ratify | to make something offical |
Radical | to be extreme |
Republicanism | when one person is the head of the state |
Robber Baron | a person who became rich from ruthless ways |
Rural | a countryside not a town |
Separation of power | to have 3 different parts of a government |
Social Darwinism | that everyone is natural selection |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Supreme Court | the highest court in the USA |
Tariff | a tax to be paid by a certain group/ or person |
Taxation without representation | a slogan chanted by colonists which made them not able to elect people |
Trade Union | another term for labor union |
Urban | a town/city |
Veto | when the president says NO to a bill |
Thomas Jefferson | made the Declaration of Independence |
Andrew Jackson | was considered a president just like the common folk and helped in the war of 1812 |
Sacagawea | she was the native american girl who lead Lewis and Clark on the Expedition of Exploration |
James Polk | was the 11th president and the considered to be the youngest |
Fredrick Douglas | he was a huge help in the effort to end slavery |
Harriet Beecher | wrote a book about slavery |
John Brown | huge help to end slavery |
Robert E. Lee | was the leader of the south until he surrendered |
Andrew Johnson | president because Abraham Lincoln died |
Susan B. Anthony | was on of the leaders for women rights |
Sitting Bull | was one of the leaders of the native Americans that didn't want his land taken over |
George Custer | was the military guy that went to little big horn thinking he would win that battle but lost |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | was one of the richest men alive that produced steel |
John Rockerfeller | he was one of the COI in the gilded ages got rich from oil |
Andrew Carnegie | he got rich in the gilded ages off of steel |
Jamestown | was the first settlement by americans |
Plymouth | was the second settlement established by americans |
Lexington and Concord | was the first battle of the revolutionary war |
Erie Canal | a man made canal |
The Alamo | a war that was fought between Texans and Mexicans |
Harper's Ferry | the place where a raid happened |
fort sumter | the first major battle during the civil war |
Gettysburg | one of the bloodiest battles |
Appomattox courthouse | this is where Robert E. Lee surrendered |
Ford's Theater | where president Lincoln was killed |
Promontory Point,Utah | where the mountains are before a lake |
Ellis Island and Angel Island | Where immigrants has to go before coming in America |
Declaration of Independence | Filled out in 1976 declared our independence |
Revolutionary War | the war between the colonist against the British |
Articles of Confederation | The thing before the declaration of independence that didn't enforce anything |
Great Compromise | When the states were mad that they were getting less representatives in the senate |
Passing of the constitution | when the forever changing sheet of paper was in the process |
Adding the Bill of Rights | A paper that said everyone has these rights |
Louisiana Purchase | When Thomas Jefferson helped with a huge part of manifest destiny and bought this from the French |
Missouri Compromise | A bill that said anything below this line is a slave state |
Indian Removal Acts | A bill passed that said all Indians in this area must move |
Mexican-American War | This war was over for the Texas Territory |
California Gold Rush | When someone found gold and everyone rushed this area |
Homestead act | An act that said if you come over here there is a chance that you can get 160 acres free |
Industrial Revolution | Where America really boomed in technology |
Underground Railroad | a safe path that slaves could escape on |
Seneca Falls Convection | a place where leaders of the Womens rights movement gathered |
Compromise of 1850 | abolished slave trade |
Kansas Nebraska Act | said Kansas is a slave state and Nebraska is a free state |
Dred Scott vs Sanford | when dred scott a slave in a free state lost a case |
Fugitive Slave act | said any slave caught trying or suspected to be a slave can be returned to the south |
Bleeding Kansas | when Kansas was fighting over either to be free state or slave state |
Civil War | Americans against Americans |
Emancipation Proclamation | Slavery is illegal in rebel places |
Civil War Draft Riots | when people were angry because of the drafts |
Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln gave this after the Battle of Gettysburg |
Reconstruction | a period that the United States had to go through to forgive everyone |
Civil War Amendments | Gave rights to blacks |
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | Really improved the railroads helps getting things around faster |
Indian Wars | Wars that changed America |
Gilded Age | A time where many people became rich off of steel, oil, Cars, railroads, etc. |
Populist Party | started in Kansas said that we don't want to follow the goverment |
Plessy vs Ferguson | A court case that ruled 7-1 |
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