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| Amendment | A change to the constitution |
| Assimilate | To change or come together reform |
| Bias | A skewed view usually in court cases |
| Blockade | Surround to weaken Usually military |
| Boomtown | A place that springs up in population suddenly |
| Border state | A state that remained in the union during the Civil War that had slaves |
| Capitalism | Economic view that a economy by the people supporting compotition |
| Checks and Balances | A system that makes sure one branch of government cannot over power the others |
| Due Process of Law | A system that gives criminals a trial similar to others to cause fairness. |
| Exodusters | African-Americans that moved west after the Civil War |
| Federalism | A system where power is divided by state local and federal government |
| Forty-Niners | Miners who came to California because of the gold rush in 1949 Now a football team |
| Free Enterprise | A system where people own the market, free business practice |
| Habeas Corpus | Right to a fair trial. Suspended by Abraham Lincoln During the Civil War. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of Wight people who wanted total control of all races. Big after the Civil War and in the 1960's |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that it is Americas god given right to span coast to coast. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for their cause |
| Monopoly | Where one company controls all the market for a product. Now illegal in the U.S.A |
| Nomadic | Living of the land moving around often |
| Override | To forcefully take control |
| Popular Sovereignty | People control the government. People are the source of the governments power |
| Ratify | To formally approve |
| Radical | Extreme views that conflict with regular views |
| Republicanism | Where we elect our political leaders |
| Rural | Away from a city, farms |
| Separation of powers | The balance of power between the three branches of government |
| Sharecropping | System of continues poverty where you rent land from a plantation owner and work the land |
| Social Darwinism | Where a scientific theory of survival of the fittest is applied to economics |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Tariff | Import and export tax |
| Trade Union | A group of workers, usually low class, band together to fight for better wages and better working conditions. |
| Urban | A place where large amounts of people are compacted |
| Veto | To say no or disapprove. Used by the president when he dose not want a law. |
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First president and commander during the Revolutionary War |
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Thomas Jefferson: Third president of the united states and person who bought the Louisiana purchase |
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Andrew Jackson: Seventh president who sent the native Americans on the trail of tears |
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Sacajawea: Native American woman who led Louis and Clark in their exposition |
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Nat Turner: slave preacher who led a rebellion killing 40 whites |
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James K. Polk: Mr. Manifest Destiny led the country from coast to coast. |
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Fredrick Douglass: Former slave and abolitionist who fought using words to stop slavery |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin a slaves fictional story based on true accounts. |
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John Brown: Abolitionist who used violence and was captured on his raid of Harper's Ferry where he was captured |
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Robert E. Lee: Confederate general who fought in the civil war winning many battles |
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Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president who won his fame as a general in the Civil War |
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Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederate States of America |
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Andrew Johnson: 17th President who was also known as the veto president because he was a democrat with a republican legeslature |
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Susan B. Anthony: Woman's suffragist that was one of the leading people and sadly died ten years before the 19th amendment passed letting |
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Sitting Bull: Native American medicine man who was the leader of rebelling Native Americans who started the Indian Wars |
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George Custer: A general of the 7th Calvary that famously lost at the battle of Little Big Horn |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt: One of the wealthiest people in history he was a railroad monopoly owner who made a fortune in the rail business. |
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John D. Rockefeller: Richest man in history that created a monopoly on oil. He was one of the most ruthless business men that created the definition of American economy. |
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Andrew Carnegie: Man who created the steel industry. Using the Bessemer Process he created the modern city by mass producing cheap steel. |
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American Colonies: The first 13 states accepted into the union that fought in the Revolutionary War. |
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Texas Republic: When Texas won it's independence from Mexico it asked to be part of the US, so America finally agreed to take it in. This caused the Mexican American War |
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Harper's Ferry: This is where an American armory was nearly taken over by John Brown to try to eliminate slavery |
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Fort Sumter: This is where the first battle of the Civil War officially took place |
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Gettysburg: This is where the largest battle of the Civil War took place. |
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Vicksburg: this is where the only siege in America took place. This town hated America so much it took 80 years for them to forgive the union. |
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Little Bighorn: This is the battle where general George Custer lost to a Native American party. General Custer was considered an American icon and his death was taken as a tragedy |
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Wounded Knee: This battle was the last major battle of the Indian Wars. It was won by America. |
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Angle & Ellis Islands: These were the two main immigration centers that took people into America. |
| Revolutionary War | The war that made America an independent nation |
| Articles of Confederation | Americas first Constitution that was later replaced by the Constitution |
| Bill of Rights | First ten amendments that protect the peoples rights |
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Louisiana purchase: Cheapest land buy in history. 15milion dollars for all of it about 4 cents and acre |
| Missouri Compromise | A deal to make Missouri a slave state but also create a line to make expansion for slavery hard. |
| Indian Removal Act | An act that caused the movement of all Indians to reserves |
| Mexican American War | A war with Mexico over a small bit of land at the bottom of Texas. The treaty gave America all of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada |
| California Gold Rush | When gold was for in 1948 people ran to California on the wagon train |
| Homestead act | Act that caused free land to be given if you worked the land for five years |
| Industrial Revolution | America moving from a rural community to a urban community |
| Underground Railroad | A series of safe houses that are used to move escaped slaves |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's rights convention that met that held many famous speeches |
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise that Made California a free state and main and gave three territories the right to choose |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Act that made Kansas and Nebraska chose able |
| Dread Scott V Sanford | Case where it was said slaves can't sue because they are property not people |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Act that made it so any African American man in the north could be brought to the south and sold |
| Bleeding Kansas | A time before the Civil War when Kansas fought it's self over the choice of slavery |
| Civil War | The bloodiest war in American history that was fought at first over state rights then slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A document sighed by Abraham Lincoln that set slaves in rebelling states free and allowed them to fight |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Riots in New York that were caused by every man aged from 20-45 had to fight in the Civil War |
| Gettysburg Adress | Largest battle of the Civil War that killed many and had highest casualty rate turning point for the north. The speech stated that America must be whole to survive |
| Civil War Amendments | These amendments gave African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote |
| Completion of the Trans-Continental railroad | At Promontory Point, Utah a golden spike was driven in connection East to West |
| Indian Wars | wars started when sitting bull would lead people off reservations because it was there land. They Lost |
| Gilded Age | A time period after the Civil War when there was extreme economic prosperity |
| Populist Party | A group of farmers that formed a peoples party to support the "common man" |
| Oklahoma Land Rush | time where people were given free land in Oklahoma there were boomers who went in the race and sooners who snuck past border patrol |
| Plessey V. Ferguson | A Supreme Court case that decided that Separate But Equal was ok |
| The Great Compromise | Compromise that decided to have a bipartisan senate one of population and one based on equality |
| Bicameral | A two party senate one based on population of a state and one based on equality |
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