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Pregunta | Respuesta |
Amendment | To add to the constitution or change it. |
Assimilate | To understand completely. Or to adapt to a culture |
Bias | In favor of |
Blockade | Not allowing to let any goods or supplies and not letting any people in or out |
Bicameral ` | Having to branches for the Legislative group |
Boomtown | A town that is growing at a fast rate |
Capitalism | Its when an individual or a private owner trades with someone from a different country with out help from there government |
Captain of Industry | A captain of industry is someone who pays there worker well and gives them good working hours and safe working conditions |
Checks And Balances | Political power that is not controlled by one individual party |
Congress | The Legislative body of the United States of America |
Due Process of Law | Fair treatment through the Judicial system |
Economics | The consumption and the transfer of wealth |
Emancipated | Top be set free |
Enfranchise | Right to vote |
Enumerated | One by one |
Federalism | System of government |
Forty-niners | 1849 gold rush |
Free Enterprise | When a private company is in control of smaller companies |
Habeas Corpus | Aloud to see a judge |
Industry | Raw materials that manufacture goods in the factory's |
Judicial | The Judicial branch is the court/judges |
KU Klux Klan | A group of whites that do not like blacks |
Manifest Destiny | The expansion westward |
Martyr | someone who is killed because of there belief |
Monopoly | control of supply and trade |
Nomadic | something or someone that moves around a lot |
Override | someone that is above you and rejects it |
Popular Sovereignty | the authority of the government is created and sustained by people |
Ratify | to make official |
Radical | Affecting the fundamentals nature |
Republicanism | In favor of Republic |
Robber Baron | A Robber Baron is a person who owns a company that pays his or her workers poorly and dose not give them safe working conditions |
Rural | Not he city but the country |
Separation of Powers | When all of the branches of government are separate body's |
Social Darwinism | The theory that the weaker smaller plants and animals and people would die off and the stronger smarter would survive |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
supreme Court | highest federal court in the United States above all of the courts |
Tariff | A tax to be paid on a certain importance |
Taxation Without Representation | when the colonist could not choose there representative |
Trade Union | Different word for a work union |
Urban | not the country but the city/town |
Veto | the president can say no and send it back |
Thomas Jefferson | Thrid president of the United states and the founder of the Declaration of Independence |
Andrew Jackson | the seventh president of the united states and was the first common man to become a president |
Sacagawea | helped lewis and Clark on there exposition |
James K. Polk | 11th president of the united states |
Frederick Douglas | he was a abolitionist and wrote the Orator |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin |
John Brown | wanted to free blacks and tried to get them to start a uprising through the slaves |
Robert E. Lee | commander of the confederate army |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Abe Lincoln's assassination |
Susan B. Anthony she played a big role in the women's right suffrage movement | she played a big role in the women's right suffrage movement |
Sitting Bull | a native american of the sioux tribe and disagreed with the united states policies |
George Custer | army officer of the cavalry he was a commander |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | he built railroads |
John Rockefeller | co owner of a oil business that did really good |
Andrew Carnegie | had a steal company and did really well with it |
James town | a town where the colonist would live in the new country |
Plymouth | English settlement came here for religious freedoms had first thanksgiving there |
Lexington and concord | British soldiers were sent to take the colonist weapons from them but we're attacked by colonist and were defeated |
Erie canal | connecting the Hudson rover at Albany to Lake Erie |
the Alamo | when the mexicans under Santa Anne massacred the American Rebels |
Harpers Ferry | John Browns raid where he and his followers captured the arsenal there |
Fort Sumter | the first battle in the civil war |
Gettysburg | bloodiest battle in the civil war |
Appomattox | where general Lee Grant surrendered |
Fords theater | Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there |
Promontory point Utah | where the union Pacific and the Central pacific met and the railroads were connected |
Ellis island and Angel island | it is where the immigrants would go to become an American citizen |
Declaration of Independence | letter to king James the third saying that they were there own country called America |
Revolutionary war | when the united states of America fought for there freedom from England |
Articles of confederation | it was the first constitution of the united States of America |
Great Compromise | an agreement between large and small states |
Passing the Consititution | when the 13 states sighned the Consititution |
Adding the Bill of Rights | People thought it did not protect there individual rights |
Louisiana Purchase | it was purchased for 25 million dollars from France |
Missouri Compromise | when Missouri wanted to be a pro-slavery state |
Indian Removal Act | was when all the indians were moved to the reservations and they had to walk the trail of tears |
Mexican American war | when the united states and Mexico were fighting of territory now known ass California, Arizona, Nevada... |
California Gold Rush | when around 300,000 men came to California because they heard that gold was found there |
Homestead Act | when people got land for little or no cost at all |
Industrial Revolution | when machines were invented and made it easier to manufacture stuff and more stuff were invented at that time |
Underground railroad | a secrete path for slaves to run away and people would keep them safe as they went |
Seneca Falls Convention | was the first women's rights conventions |
compromise of 1850 | that it allowed California to become a free state and Missouri to become a slave state |
Kansas Nebraska act | it was opening the territories for new land for settlement and they could choose if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state |
Dred Scott V.S Standford | Dred Scott lost because he led a rebellion of slaves and killed his master and other masters in the area |
Fugitive Slave act | it was for the return of slaves that were hiding in the freed states |
Bleeding Kansas | it was when Kansas and Missouri were arguing and People from Missouri would come and vote to be a slave state even though they did not live in Kansas |
Civil War | was when the south separated from the North and the south called themselves the confederate states of America and they fought against the North the union |
Emancipated Proclamation | it freed slave |
Civil War Draft riots | when the people that could afford to pay there selfs from going to war the people that could not did not like that and would form riots |
Gettysburg Address | it was to remember the fallen soldiers from the Gettysburg battle |
Reconstruction | After the civil war they would start to rebuild there cities and try to have the confederates mend the patch and have the North and South agree again |
Civil war Amendments 13th 14th and 15th | 13th amendment is to abolish slavery 14th amendment is it guaranties equality 15th amendment rights regardless of race |
Completion of the transcontinental railroads | when the two railroad companies came together and completed the railroad |
Indian wars | when the Indians fought back for there freedom so that they would not have to go the the reservations |
Gilded Age | it was a time of rapid growth in society |
Populist Party | it was formed in Kansas by the people |
Plessy V.S Freguson | when they were arguing about the railroads |
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