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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Amendment | An official change a document. |
| Assimilate | To gain something and understand it. |
| Bias | To favor one way rather than the other, is often considered to be unfair. |
| Bicameral | Having two of branches in the legislative body. |
| Blockade | To surround and prevent from leaving. |
| Boomtown | A town with sudden rapid growth due to successes. |
| Capitalism | Country isn't ran by government but by private ownership. |
| Captain of Industry | Successful businessmen well known and liked by citizens. |
| Checks and Balances | All branches of government have control or equal power over each other. |
| Congress | A legislative group who discus. |
| Due Process of Law | For citizens to be judged fairly. |
| Economics | The system of production. |
| Emancipated | To |
| Enfranchise | To be given the right to vote. |
| Enumerated | Listed one after another. |
| Federalism | The system where the national governments power is divide into other regions of government. |
| Forty-Niners | A person who went to California during the California Gold Rush of 1849 To profit off it. |
| Free Enterprise | Where private companies operate competition free from state control. |
| Habeas Corpus | The write to be brought among a judge to determine whether your case is lawful. |
| Industry | The working of turning raw material to manufactured goods. |
| Judicial | The judging done by court. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A gang that wore white sheets to protect their identity and road out at night to abuse blacks. |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea of God wanting man kind to move west to new territory. |
| Martyr | A person who is killed because of their beliefs, often religious people. |
| Monopoly | An area has only one of a store and produce all the products needed, so there is no competition. |
| Nomadic | To be homeless and moving with the seasons in search for food and water. |
| Override | For ones decision to be declined or canceled |
| Popular Sovereignty | Where the power is divided between the government and the people. |
| Ratify | To formally confirm. |
| Radical | To be extreme. |
| Republicanism | When popular sovereignty is run by states. |
| Robber Baron | A cruel, money thieving businessman, that wouldn't stop for anything to make money. |
| Rural | To relate to or live in the countryside. |
| Separation of Powers | The power divided from each government branch, the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the... |
| Social Darwinism | The idea of survival of the fittest, meaning most strong and successful people will have better lives, and love longer. |
| Suffrage | Is the right to be in office or vote. |
| Supreme Court | Most powerful court of all courts in the nation has control over all other courts and judicial decisions. |
| Tariff | Tax on imports and exports, given by government. |
| Taxation without Representation | Taxing groups of citizens with out anything given back to you. |
| Trade Union | When an employer makes a bargain with his/her employees. |
| Urban | Deep City |
| Veto | When a president denies a bill to be passed. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the 3rd president and made the best purchase in history, the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Andrew Jackson | He was our 7th president was the first lower class man to become a president and declared the Indian Removal Act. |
| Sacagawea | Helped Louise and Clark make it through harsh conditions while they explores the Louisiana Territory. |
| James Polk | He was the 11th president and was known for getting the Oregon Territory. |
| Frederick Douglass | Was a famous slave and abolitionist that escaped his owner and wrote a autobiography that is still known and read today. |
| Harriett Beecher Stowe | Was a famous woman abolitionist known for her book she wrote, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and it showed how harsh slaves were treated. |
| John Brown | He was a white american abolitionist who believed and used violence to try to abolish slavery. |
| Robert E. Lee | He was the confederates general during the Civil War and was the one to surrender. |
| Andrew Johnson | He became our 17th president when president Lincoln was assassinated, because he was the vice president. He was the first president to be impeached but stayed in office to end the little time left of his presidential term. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Played a huge role as a women's suffragist and founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society with Elizabeth Stanton. |
| Sitting Bull | Souix Indian tribe leader, he was known for defeating a federal troop lead by George Custer with Crazy Horse. |
| George Custer | Was a U.S. Army officier and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the American Indian Wars. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Was a extremely successful business men during the Gilded Age. He earned his money by shipping, owning the railroads. |
| John Rockefeller | Was a extremely successful businessmen during the Gilded Age. He earned his money by founding the Standard Oil Company. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Was a industrialist who lead expansion of the steel industry during the 19th century. |
| Jamestown | The first settlement in American in Virginia. When soil was used to grow tobacco. |
| Plymouth | Second town were immigrants settle but soon most died to the harsh winter. |
| Lexington and Concord | First battle of the Revolutionary War on April 18, 1775. |
| Erie Canal | This was an extraordinary canal because it linked Lake Erie and the Hutcheson River. This was a new way of transportation for everyone. |
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