Pregunta | Respuesta |
amendment | a change in a document |
assimilate | to learn something and understand it fully |
bias | when someone is against something or someone |
bicameral | having two branches in the government or law |
blockade | sealing off a place so nothing can get in or out |
boomtown | a city that quickly grows in population |
capitalism | trade and businesses are owned by private people or industries |
captain of industry | someone during the industrial revolution who made lots of money in a positive way |
checks and balances | two powers in government which watch over each other to make sure one doesn't become more powerful than the other |
congress | the body of the law in a country |
due process | fair treatment through the judicial branch |
economics | the money branch in the government |
emancipated | set free, or liberated |
enfranchise | given the right to vote |
enumerated | one by one |
federalism | system of a country |
forty-niners | a person in California looking for gold during the gold rush |
free enterprise | businesses operate in competition |
habeas corpus | the right to be brought before a judge of arrested |
industry | a place that's made for making goods in factories |
Judicial | of a court or judge |
Ku Klux Klan | a secret group formed in the 1800s that showed hate torwards blacks |
Manifest Destiny | the belief that the U.S should spand from coast to coast |
Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other belief |
Monopoly | total control over trade of a service |
Nomadic | a group of a species that travel |
Override | using ones authority to reject something |
Popular Sovereignty | the governments power is controled by the people |
Ratify | to give formal consent |
Radical | someone with extreme ideas |
Republicanism | the belief in the people controlling the government |
Robber Baron | someone who gains wealth in ruthless ways |
Rural | country living or not urban |
Separation of Powers | legislative, executive, and judicial powers being seperate |
Social Darwinism | people are bound by the darwinism laws of nature or survival of the fittest |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Supreme Court | the highest court in the United States |
Tariff | tax on imports and exports |
Taxation without representation | the people in the american colonies where getiing taxed but had no one to represent them |
Trade Union | workers going on strike to protect their rights |
Urban | city or town |
Veto | to reject a law |
Thomas Jefferson | one of the united state's founders |
Andrew Jackson | 7th president famous for the the indian removal act |
Sacagawea | she guided lewis and clark |
James Polk | 11th president known for getting us land such as the oregon territory |
Frederick Douglass | run away slave that wrote the north star newspaper |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle toms cabin |
John Brown | abolitionist that tried to arm the slaves to fight back the racist government |
Robert E. Lee | a general for the c.s.a during the civil war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
Susan B. Anthony | womens suffragest |
Sitting Bull | the leader of the natives at little big horn |
George Custer | the leader of u.s soldiers that attacked the natives at little big horn |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | one of the men who built the u.s |
John Rockefeller | founder of the standard oil company |
Andrew Carnegie | found out how to mass produce steel |
Jamestown | first permenent english settlement |
Plymouth | a seaport but started out as a small colony |
Lexington and Concord | first fight of the revolutionary war |
Erie Canal | canal from new york to lake erie |
the alamo | The Alamo was a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army |
Harper’s Ferry | is now a historic town but was the place where john brown raided the armory |
Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the civil war were fired |
Gettysburg | the bloodiest battle of the civil war |
Appomattox Courthouse | where Lee surendered |
Ford’s Theater | president licoln was shot there |
Promontory Point, Utah | the first transcontenintal railroad was built |
Ellis Island and Angel Island | immigration station |
Declaration of Independence | the document that started the revoltionary war |
Revolutionary War | the war that gave us our freedom from great britian |
Articles of Confederation | it was like the first constitution |
Great Compromise | gave states the right ot make laws |
Passing of the Constitution | the spreme court had to vote on changing the articles of confederation |
Adding the Bill of Rights | after adding the bill of rights, it gave the people rights that the government can not take away |
Louisiana Purchase | where we bought the louisiana territory from the french |
Missouri Compromise | made the states equaly divided into none slave states and slave states |
Indian Removal Acts | where andrew jackson moved all the natives to reservations |
Mexican-American War | where we fought mexico for texas |
California Gold Rush | gold was found in california and people flouded in to find it |
Homestead Act | made land in the west payment free |
Industrial Revolution | we went to making things by hand to making them by factories |
Underground Railroad | how slaves would run away |
Seneca Falls Convention | first womens rights convention |
Compromise of 1850 | helped decide what states in the mexican terriotory would be slave and non slave |
Kansas- Nebraska Act | allowed people to vote for slavery or non slavery |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | made it so that slaves taken to free states are still slaves |
Fugitive Slave Act | where if you find a run away slave you have to return him and punish him |
Bleeding Kansas | violence during the setlling of the kansas territory |
Civil War | where the north was fighting the south because the south wanted slaves and the north didnt |
Emancipation Proclamation | all slaves in the c.s.a are free |
Civil War draft riots | people didnt think drafting was fair so they formed riots |
Gettysburg Address | speech licoln gave at the battle of gettysburg |
Reconstruction | after civil war the north tried to make their relationship with the south better |
Civil War Amendments | made blacks citizens, gave them the right to vote, and gave them their freedom |
Completion of TransContinental Railroad | when we completed the transcontinental railroad |
Indian Wars | the natives fought off the u.s soldiers from taking their land |
Gilded Age | when there was a lot of money coming into the u.s |
Populist Party | political party for the people |
Plessy v. Ferguson | made it so blacks were segragated |
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