Wil's Famous Social Studies Flashcards

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Flashcards on quarter 4 over the whole year.
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Amendment A written or formal change to a legal document.
Assimilate to take information.
Bias To be for or against something.
Bicameral To have a body of two chambers.
Blockade To create a barrier.
Boomtown a town of rapid population.
Capitalism The belief of hard work and earning what you work for.
Captain of industry successful well organized business men.
Checks and balances a system used to make all branches equal.
Congress A branch of legislature.
Due process of law The right of testified being wrong.
Economics The system of handling money
Emancipated To pass Through.
Enfranchise To give the right to vote.
Enumerated Not listed.
Federalism Groups and members that join together.
Forty-niners People from the 1849 gold rush.
Free enterprise Private business that goes against the government.
Habeas corpus An unlawful punishment.
Industry Any general business or commercial enterprise
Judicial The branch of government that is responsible for explaining laws
Ku Klux Klan White men from the South who wore white sheets and thought that free-black slaves should not be free
Manifest Destiny The term for attitude prevalent during the 19th century of American expansion
Martyr A religious person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce their religion
Monopoly Taking control over business, traffic, or service granted by the government
Nomadic People who live a lifestyle of moving around a lot
Override Using one's authority to reject or cancel
Popular Sovereignty Using the power of the people through their elected officals
Ratify To make or change an amendment to an officail document
Radical Favoring drastically in political reforms
Republicanism The ideology of governing a society or state as a republic
Robber Baron A term put on 19th century business men
Rural A town wide spaced town containing favorable and unfavorable condition
Separation of Powers The act of vesting the legislative, executive, judicial powers of the government in separate sections
Social Darwinism The choice of natural selection and survival of the fittest in sociology and politics
Suffrage The right to vote in political elections
Supreme Court The main court and court housing system of the United States
Tariff A tax imposed on imported goods and services
Taxation Without Representation When the king of England put taxes on foreign goods to America
Urban A big populated city area
Trade Union Workers who come together to make a certain goal possible
Veto To say no or to not agree with
Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of the United States
Andrew Jackson 7th president of the United States
Sacagawea The woman who came along with Lewis and Clark on their expedition
James K. Polk 11th president of the United States
Frederick Douglass A Famous African American abolitionist/ writer
Harriet Beecher Stowe American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown An American abolitionist who believed insurrection was the only way to overthrow slavery in the United States
Robert E. Lee United States Confederate general during the Civil War, who surrendered at the end of the war in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
Andrew Johnson 17th president of the United States, who was though of to be one of the worst presidents in the U.S
Susan B. Anthony Women's rights activist, who wanted women to have the right to vote
Sitting Bull Tribal chief who led his people of the tribe during years of resistance to the United States government
George Custer A Union Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War
Cornelius Vanderbilt Know as the commodore, he made his money off of working in the railroad industry
John Rockefeller Co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, in which he made his money of
Andrew Carnegie Scottish industrialist who became the leading steel worker in the United States
jamestown A town in Virginia where the first English settlers lived in
Plymouth The town where the pilgrims landed in
Lexington and Concord A battle between the United States and the British armies that took place on April 19,1775
Erie Canal A 363 mile long canal that ran from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York
The Alamo It led to Texas becoming independent, and then to later join the United States
Harper's Ferry A army base in West Virginia where John Brown led troops to invade the base
Fort Sumter Where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired
Gettysburg Where the Battle of Gettysburg happened, after the the battle the famous Gettysburg Address was given here
Appomattox Courthouse A city in Virginia where the Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered there
Ford's Theater The place where Abraham Lincoln was shot
Promontory Point, Utah The point where the Transcontinental Railroad ended marking it with a golden railroad spike
Ellis Island and Angel Island Places in New York and San Francisco where immigrants were processed
Declaration of Independence Signed in the year of 1776 which declared the U.S independent from England
Revolutionary War The war the U.S fought with England at the start of our county
Articles of Confederation The first written constitution of the United States which as a result led to a weak government
Great Compromise The compromise between large and small states over representation which created two houses of congress
Passing the Constitution It had to be ratified by two-thirds of the states passed by the constitutional convention at first
Adding the Bill of Rights They were the first ten amendments to the U.S constitution, first added in 1791, passed by congress then ratified by the states
Louisiana Purchase Purchased by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 from the French, the land was 828,000 SQ miles long which was also a large part of country
Missouri Compromise An agreement in congress to prohibit slavery i n the Northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase but not Missouri
Indian Removal Act (The Trail of Tears) An act signed in 1830, which allowed the U.S to negotiate with the Indian tribes and move them to the West
Mexican-American War A battle between the Mexicans and the Americans in the years of 1846-1848, it was caused by the U.S adding Texas and it resulted in the U.S getting even more land
California Gold Rush Int 1849 gold was found in mining caves in San Francisco which led to the effect of many foreign and American settlers to move out was in hope of finding gold
Homestead Act Gave homesteaders 160 acres of land which they worked on it for five years in order to pay off the land
Industrial Revolution The time in America where nature of the economy changed ways of how machines and manufacturing processes were made
Underground Railroad The system for secretly transporting blacks up to the North from the South
Seneca Falls Convention A women's suffrage act allowing women the right to vote
Compromise of 1850 A fugitive Slave act in Washington D.C where the Slave Trade was abolished
Kansas-Nebraska Act The goal to abolish the Missouri compromise and allowed areas on becoming free or slave states
Dred Scott V. Sanford The act were escaped free- slaves should be returned and that blacks weren't citizens
Fugitive Slave Act All free-slaves had to be returned to their masters even in free states
Bleeding Kansas The argument over Kansas becoming a free or slave state
Civil War Lasted from 1861-1865, all battles were fought between the North and the South
Emancipation Proclamation States that all slaves shall be released free
Civil War Draft Riots people started riots over them not wanting to be in the war
Gettysburg Adress Lincolns most famous speech he made read out loud at Gettysburg Battlefield
Reconstruction The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Civil war Amendments (13th,14th,15th) Gave blacks the basic rights that the white people had
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad A railroad that began it's construction on the East cost then ended in Utah in the West coast
Indian Wars Native American fought back at the American troops while being moved along the way to the west coast
Gilded Age Late 1800's a time of serious social problems and economic wealth
Populist Party A party that appealed to farmers low crop prices, lack of credit failures, and poor marketing
Plessy V. Ferguson Segregation laws were constitutional
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