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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change to the law in a document |
| Assimilate | to change to a new culture |
| Bias | believe in that someone is better without really looking into it |
| Bicameral | Having two parts to the government |
| Blockade | to block someone or something from leaving or entering |
| Boomtown | when a town has a sudden increase in population and businesses |
| Capitalism | the government that lets everyone have fair competition against one another |
| Captain of Industry | someone who is rich and earned it without underpaying workers, also gives money to charities |
| Checks and Balances | when to government has some power over one another so no one is too powerful |
| Congress | in the United States government, the branch that makes laws and sends them to the president. |
| Economics | relating to money in an area or city |
| Due Process of Law | the right that everyone has their rights in court |
| Emancipated | to free from anything |
| Enfranchise | giving someone the right to vote |
| Enumerated | not listed |
| Federalism | power being distributed to the other branches of the govenment |
| Forty-Niners | someone who participated in the California Gold Rush |
| Free Enterprise | where businesses can compete against each other freely |
| Habeas Corpus | When the people have rights in court to be fair |
| Industry | To make goods in a factory or shop |
| Judicial | The branch of government that has the highest court system and clarifies laws |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of white supremacists who believed that blacks should be treated bad |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that early Americans had that they would eventually move westward |
| Martyr | Someone who is killed because of what they believe in |
| Monopoly | When a business is trying to take out all of the other competition. |
| Nomadic | When someone moves a lot and doesn't stay in one place for too long |
| Override | To cancel someone else's idea normally by vote |
| Popular Sovereignty | When the government is primarily ruled by the people and is sustained by the people |
| Ratify | When at least 9 of the 13 states had to approve on something |
| Radical | When someone feels extremely toward something |
| Republicanism | When the government chooses to govern the state as a republic |
| Republicanism | When the government chooses to govern the state as a republic |
| Robber Baron | Someone who is rich and uses his money for himself and pays workers low wages |
| Rural | a farm-like area, not much around |
| Separation of Powers | when the government's branch's each have their own jobs/powers |
| Social Darwinism | when, "survival of the fittest," is for humans |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest court in America, under the Judicial Branch |
| Tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Taxation without Representation | When the government taxes the people without their approval |
| Trade Union | a group of workers who come together for better pay or more benefits, etc |
| Urban | city-like area, lots of buildings and skyscrapers |
| Veto | to deny of something, normally the president does it to laws he doesn't like |
| Thomas Jefferson | the third president and helped majority of writing the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | the 7th president and signed the Indian Removal Act |
| Sacagawea | A guide and translator for Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
| James Polk | The 11th president and gained the most land for the United States |
| Frederick Douglass | An abolitionist who was born into slavery himself |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | An abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and it was highly popular during its time |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who lead a raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Robert E. Lee | A Confederate general during the Civil War and was the best general in the South |
| Andrew Johnson | Was the president after Lincolns assassination and was considered to be one of the worst presidents ever |
| Susan B. Anthony | One of the leading suffragist alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Sitting Bull | a Native American who was one of the five that had big rebellions against the whites |
| George Custer | A Civil War officer who lead an attack at Little Big Horn and lost, one of the bigger battles during that time |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | one of the richest men of his time, he started out owning a boat company. |
| John Rockefeller | The richest man to ever live, made his money from Standard Oil. |
| Andrew Carnegie | One of the richest men back in the late 1800's and early 1900'. made money from mass producing steel |
| Jamestown | The first colony brought by Britain, grew lots of tobacco |
| Plymouth | the second colony that was from Britain, needed help from Indians, also were Thanksgiving started |
| Lexington and Concord | The first major battle of the Revolutionary War, was fought by local militia v. the British. |
| Erie Canal | A canal that transported lots of goods from West New York to East New York and vice versa |
| The Alamo | A battle that was apart of the Mexican American War, America lost badly |
| Harper's Ferry | John Brown raided this because he was an abolitionist, this made big news |
| Fort Sumter | the first battle of the Civil War, the Confederates won and that showed that this was going to be a hard war |
| Gettysburg | The biggest battle in the Civil War, also the deadliest, Abraham made a speech after it was over |
| Ford's Theater | This is where Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the surrender of Robert Lee |
| Promontory Point, Utah | This is the point where the railroads met up and completed the transcontinental railroad |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | These are the places where most of the new immigrants went depending on what side they came from |
| Declaration of Independence | The document that stated America's freedom from Great Britain |
| Revolutionary War | the war between Great Britain and American shortly after we became a country |
| Articles of Confederation | the earliest constitution we had, soon failed because there was no enforcement in the laws |
| Great Compromise | The compromise that stated Congress should be divided into two parts, one by population and the other 2 per state |
| Passing the Constitution | When American passed the Constitution, people had more rights. laws were enforced, and it made law making easier because they could add amendments if it needed changed |
| Adding Bill of Rights | People could have individual rights that allowed them to do things that can't be taken from them. |
| Louisiana Purchase | It added tons of land to the new country, pretty much doubling what they had |
| Missouri Compromise | The compromise that added a line that made sure that no state above it is allowed to be slave |
| Indian Removal Acts/Trail of Tears | Andrew Jackson Moved all of the Indians out of Florida and made them move onto reservations in Oklahoma |
| Mexican-American War | The war mainly between Mexico and Texas, but America helped some too. The Alamo happened during this |
| California Gold Rush | A gold rush that sent thousands of people to California, lots didn't make too much money |
| Homestead Act | The act signed by Abraham Lincoln that encouraged people to move west for 160 acres of land, had to have residence for 5 years before having |
| Industrial Revolution | the period where lots of technologies were being invented and rural areas became urban, tons of jobs also became available in factories |
| Underground Railroad | the secret path escaping slaves would take to free themselves from slavery, led by Harriet Tubman |
| Seneca Falls, Convention | Where suffragists gathered to talk about how they are going to be able to vote |
| Compromise of 1850 | ended slavery in Washington D.C. and hardened the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | The act that made Kansas and Nebraska open to be chosen whether to be a slave state or free state by the people |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | the supreme court case about a man whose owner took him into a free state and the slave should be free, but lost and Sanford got to keep the slaves |
| Fugitive Slave Act | the act that made anyone return an escaped slave or they could be arrested or sometimes killed. |
| Bleeding Kansas | The reference to Kansas being a bloody battlefield because a lot of people were fighting for the land of Kansas |
| Civil War | The war that split the North and South apart, the North won but both suffered great loss, so it wasn't much of a win |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The document that Lincoln signed during the war that ended all slavery in places of rebellion |
| Civil War Draft Riots | people in the North were furious because they had to be drafted into the military for the Civil War, destruction was everywhere in New York |
| Gettysburg Address | The statement that Lincoln made just after the Battle of Gettysburg, it is known as one of the best speeches ever |
| Reconstruction | the time period after the Civil War to try and make the two sides come back together, they say this failed but in some ways it didn't |
| Civil War Amendments | the 13th amendment ended all slavery in the United States, forever. The 14th gave citizenship to African Americans. The 15th gave African Americans the right to vote |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | After the railroad finished, trade from all over the United States was possible and this was a huge achievement for the United States |
| Indian Wars | The battles between Americans and Native Americans, America eventually won but the Indians had 5 good leaders who fought back against Americans |
| Gilded Age | The age where lots of people made money and some made none at all. Lots of robber barons were born during this era, the 4 richest men ever where during this period |
| Populist Party | this was a party made in Kansas made for the common folk. Since the other two parties were mostly ran by robber barons, the common people needed a party. They later went to the Democratic party |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | the court fight for equal black rights. Plessy was for and Ferguson was against. Ferguson won but some civil rights activists started to turn up |
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