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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Amendment | When you add something to a document or a bill. |
| Assimilate | To add something or to become part of. |
| Bias | A personal hate or a personal opinion. |
| Bicameral | Two or more different branch's in the legislative branch |
| Blockade | To stop people from entering or exiting a certain place. |
| Boomtown | a town or city that has grown really fast |
| Capitalism | A completive society that thrives off of competition. |
| Captain of Industry | Men during the gilded age who help make business and society what it is today. |
| Checks and Balances | The balance of power in the government so no one branch is to powerful. |
| Congress | The legislative part of the government they make new laws and is made up of the Senate and The House of Representatives. |
| Due process of law | All citizens are allowed to have their rights and they can't be taken away. |
| economics | Social science of finance and the different parts of money. |
| Emancepated | To be free from something. |
| enfranchise | To let people vote. |
| enumerated | To have a number |
| Federalism | How the government gives power to the lower parts. |
| Forty-niners | When people started to arrive in San Fransisco for the gold rush. |
| Free Enterprise | anyone can start or run a business. |
| Habeas Corpus | The right to a trial. |
| industry | the creation of something or the building of something. |
| Judicial | The branch of the government that interprets laws. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group from reconstruction that believed in white supremacy. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that americans should settle from the east to the west. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for a religious cause. |
| Monopoly | To have complete control of something. |
| Nomatic | Does not live in one place people who follow their food source. |
| Override | To stop someone from stopping something. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Were the government is supported by the people. |
| Ratify | To give your permission. |
| Radical | When someone supports something to the extreme. |
| Republicanism | were the leaders are chosen by the people. |
| Robber Baron | Business men who only cared about how much money they make. |
| Rural | Somewhere out in the country. |
| Separation of powers | Each branch of the government has their own duties. |
| Social Darwinism | Were survival of the fittest is applied to the business world. |
| Sufferage | A group of people trying to get rights. |
| supreme court | The highest court that interprets laws to see if there constitutional. |
| Tariff | a tax paid for imports and exports. |
| Taxation without representation | What happened to the american colonist when they were taxed by the British when they had no representation in government. |
| Trade union | Groups formed in businesses for the rights of employees. |
| Urban | When you are located in a city. |
| Veto | To reject or stop. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The third president of the united states writer of the declaration of independence. |
| Andrew Jackson | The seventh president and the man who issued the indian removal act. |
| Sacagawea | The guide and translator for Lewis & Clark. |
| James Polk | The eleventh president and the man who acquired the most land for the U.S.A. |
| Frederick Douglass | A abolitionist and the author of the narrative of Fredrick Douglass. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | A abolitionist and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| John Brown | A extremist from bleeding Kansas who tried to raid a military outpost in Virginia. |
| Robert E. Lee | The leader of the army of Virginia during the Civil war. |
| Andrew Johnson | The seventeenth president also known as the veto president because of how many laws he vetoed. |
| Susan B. Anthony | The Leader of the woman's suffrage movement. |
| Sitting Bull | A medicine man and later chief who lead the Lakota tribe who was against assimilation. |
| George Cluster | A Colonial who attacked the free Lakota tribe and was beaten. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | A millionaire from the gilded age that made money off of the railroads. |
| John Rockefeller | A Billionaire from the gilded age who had a monopoly on oil. |
| Andrew Carnegie | A millionaire from the gilded age that found a way to create steal cheaply. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent english settlement in the Americas. |
| Plymouth | A religious Colony that was in Massachusetts. |
| Lexington and Concord | The first two battles of the revolutionary war when Redcoats tried to confiscate guns from settlers. |
| Erie Canal | A handmade Canal used to transfer things from Chicago to New York. |
| The Alamo | When settlers of Texas fought the Spanish that controlled Texas at the time. |
| Harper"s Ferry | When John Brown Attempted a slave uprising by taking guns from the military base. |
| Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the civil war took place. |
| Gettysburg | The turing point of the war the bloodiest battle of the war. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Were general Lee surrendered to the North. |
| Ford's Theater | Were President Lincoln was killed by Booth. |
| Promontory point, Utah | This was the decided point for the international railroad would meet |
| Ellis Island and angel island | Were immigrants came to become american citizens. |
| Declaration of independence | A letter we sent Britten that we were becoming are own country. |
| Revolutionary war | This war was fought because the British wanted us to still be apart of them. |
| Articles of Confederation | The first constitution this was barely enforced and lasted a short amount of time. |
| Passing the Constatution | It was decided that the constitution would be the rights of the government while a bill of rights would be written. |
| Great compromise | The merging of the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan. |
| Adding the bill of rights | The bill includes the rights of the people which there are ten. |
| Louisiana Purchase | A large amount of French land purchased by Tomas Jefferson. |
| Missouri Compromise | Where the states decided how to split between free and slave states. |
| Indian Removal Acts | These were acts enacted by Andrew Jackson to move tribes off of colony soil. |
| Mexican-American War | The war where american settlers wanted the gold and resources in Mexican territory. |
| California gold rush | When gold was found in California large amounts of people moved for the opportunity. |
| Homestead act | Where the government offered free land in the midwest as long as you lived on it for two years. |
| Industrial Revolution | When machines and technology started to rapidly evolve. |
| Underground Railroad | A group that tried to help free slaves. |
| Seneca falls convention | This is where the first meeting for the woman suffrage movement took place. |
| Compromise of 1850 | were California was a free state but New Mexico and Arizona got to chose. |
| Kansas- Nebraska act | were these two states got to chose which side they would support. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Where Scott went to court to protest to being a slave in a free state where the court declared that he and all other blacks were property. |
| Fugitive slave act | Where any cop could deputize a citizen to catch a runaway. |
| Bleeding Kansas | The events that happened to decide what stance Kansas would take. |
| Civil War | A war between the North and South over stances on slavery. |
| Emancipation Proclomation | When Lincoln declare that all slaves in areas of rebellion were forever free. |
| Civil war draft riots | Were poorer citizens raged through the streets when richer people got out of the war. |
| Gettysburg Address | The speech that Lincoln gave after the battle of Gettysburg. |
| Reconstruction | The period after the civil war were they were trying to rebuild the country. |
| Civil war amendments | These were amendments that were made to help freed slaves. |
| Completion of Trans-Continental Railroad | In Promontory point in Utah they connected the tracks that let americans ride the train from the East to the West. |
| Indian Wars | When the tribes would rebel against assimilation and attack federal troops. |
| Gilded age | When the business world boomed and the first monopolies formed. |
| Populist Party | A political group formed in Kansas to represent the common man. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | when separate but equal was made meaning the races could be separate but they had to have equal quality. |
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