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Flashcards by Jenna Tammen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jenna Tammen
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change or a new addition to the Constitution |
| Assimilate | To take in or to fully understand |
| Bias | To heavily favor one side of an argument |
| Bicameral | To have two branches of the legislative body |
| Blockade | Troops or ships closing off harbors or ports to prevent anyone or anything entering or exiting |
| Boomtown | A town that has grown rapidly because of good fortune |
| Captains of Industry | Businessmen who are described as ingenious and successful |
| Checks and Balances | A system that is used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch |
| Congress | A national legislature group consisting of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives |
| Emancipated | To be free from the control over you |
| Enfranchise | To admit citizenship and voting rights |
| Enumerated | Not mentioned or listed |
| Federalism | The federal part of the government |
| Forty-niners | Some one who went to the California Gold Rush in 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | The freedom of private businesses to work competitively for profit with minimal or no government regulation |
| Habeas Corpus | A person under arrest has to bee seen by a judge before their consequence(s) |
| Industry | Economic activity involving raw materials and the production of goods in factories |
| Due process of law | Fair treatment through the Judicial system |
| Judicial | The branch in the government that interprets the laws |
| Ku Klux Klan | A gang that was started in the south to terrorize African Americans |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the U.S. should expand westward |
| Martyr | Someone who is killed for a religious cause |
| Monopoly | Where the market is in the hands of one business that has much control |
| Nomadic | To always be moving |
| Override | To use one's authority to reject a decision |
| Popular Sovereignty | Where people are their own government electing their representatives |
| Ratify | To give official approval |
| Radical | Supporting and representing an extreme section of a political party |
| Republicanism | Governing a state as its own republic, where the people of the state are their own representative |
| Robber Baron | A ruthless business man who would do anything to earn money |
| Rural | The countryside |
| Separation of Powers | The judicial, legislative, and executive branch in separation |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as animals |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections |
| Supreme Court | The highest judicial court |
| Tariff | A tax to be paid |
| Taxation without Representation | Colonists were not allowed to choose representatives which passed the laws making them pay taxes |
| Trade Union | Another term for a labor union |
| Urban | City living |
| Veto | A constitutional right to reject a decision |
| Capitalism | An economic system where a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners |
| Economics | The concern with the production and transfer of wealth |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was an American Founding Father who was an author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson also was the third president. |
| Andrew Jackson | They were the 7th president. He is known for defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812 |
| Sacagawea | She was apart of the Shoshone tribe and was known for being the only woman in the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| James Polk | He was the 11th president and was known for the victory of the Mexican-American War |
| Frederick Douglass | Born into slavery he was an abolitionist and also helped in the abolition movement |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was an American abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John Brown | He was a white American abolitionist who led the Harpers Ferry Raid |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate States of America until his surrender |
| Andrew Johnson | He was the vice president, but when Abe died he became president (17th) |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was a women's suffragist who collected anti-slavery petitions at age 17 |
| Sitting Bull | A Hunkpapa Lakota chief who helped the Lakota tribes in their struggle for survival |
| George Custer | A United States army officer and a commander in the American Civil War |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | A philanthropist who earned his wealth by railroads and shipping |
| John Rockefeller | He was a philanthropist who dominated the oil industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish American industrialist who worked in the steel industry |
| Jamestown | First settlement in the America's |
| Plymouth | A place where pilgrims and others came to freely worship |
| Lexington and Concord | First shots fire between American and British troops and this is also known for Paul Revere's famous ride warning the county |
| Erie Canal | A canal in New York that runs 363 miles from Albany |
| The Alamo | Troops occupy the space during war and many battles have been fought here |
| Harper's Ferry | A town in Jefferson County, West Virginia |
| Fort Sumter | The first battle starting the American Civil War |
| Gettysburg | The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863 |
| Appomattox Courthouse | This is where Robert E. Lee got cut off by Union troops who surrounded Lee. He then decided to surrender |
| Ford's Theater | John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln here while a play was being performed |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The most southern point of the peninsula that was formed by the Promontory Mountains near the Great Salt Lake |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Where immigrants came when entering the U.S. also known as Immigration Station |
| Declaration of Independence | Written by Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1776 and this is celebrated as the birth of independence |
| Revolutionary War | This war was between the British and the American Colonies |
| Articles of Confederation | Was originally the first constitution until it was ratified |
| Great Compromise | This compromise created our current legislature with two houses |
| Louisiana Purchase | We got this land from France for $15 million and it doubled the size of the United States |
| Passing of the Constitution | George Washington was the first to sign the document. In order for the Constitution to become a, it then had to be ratified by nine of the 13 states. On May 29, 1790 it finally became law. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights was added to Constitution in 1787 at a Constitution Center |
| Missouri Compromise | Congress did not want Missouri to have laws permitting slavery |
| Indian Removal Acts | Andrew Jackson forced the Cherokee tribe to move towards Oklahoma |
| Mexican-American War | The Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and the U.S. received the Texas, New Mexico, and California |
| California Gold Rush | In 1848 James Marshall discovered gold while constructing a sawmill in Sacramento |
| Homestead Act | In 1862 an act was made by Congress that made public lands in the west available to settlers without payment |
| Industrial Revolution | A period of economic growth between 1820-1840 |
| Underground Railroad | A network of passage ways and safe houses for enslaved African Americans to escape |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's Rights Convention panned by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
| Compromise of 1850 | The compromise admitted California as a free state and it also ended the slave trade in Washington D.C. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | This act was passed by Congress on May 30, 1854. This allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted slavery |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | The Supreme Court decided that Congress did not have enough power to ban slavery in the U.S. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law passed with the Compromise of 1850 which allowed slaveholders to capture slaves that had escaped |
| Bleeding Kansas | A term used to describe the period of violence during the settlement of Kansas history |
| Civil War | A war between Northern states and Southern states in the U.S. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | This was sent out on January 1, 1863 and was written by Abraham Lincoln |
| Civil War draft riots | Congress passed a law stating that all men from ages 20 to 45 are eligible for military service |
| Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech facing the battlefield honoring the ones who fought for the sake of our nation |
| Reconstruction | A period of time after the Civil War that would help bring our nation back together |
| Civil War Amendments | The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments ratified between 1865 and 1870 |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | The first railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, which made transportation of goods and people a lot quicker |
| Indian Wars | Multiple conflicts between American settlers and Native Americans from the beginning of 1890 |
| Gilded Age | Thirty years after the Reconstruction Era |
| Populist Party | Organized in St. Louis in 1892 representing farmers such as the common folk |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | The Plessy decision was set the precedent that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were equal |
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