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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change that has been made or added to the Constitution |
| Assimilate | To take in or adsorb into a community or ethnicity. |
| Bias | To be or show favor to one group over another. |
| Bicameral | Having multiple branches of a group. |
| Blockade | Closing off a path so that a person or group of people may not pass. |
| Boomtown | A town or city that is going through extreme economic growth. |
| Capitalism | A system of economy that is based on winners and losers in business. |
| Captain of Industry | A rich man who is praised for how good he is and how chartable he is. |
| Checks and Balances | A system of government that ensures that no branch will have the ability to overpower the other two. |
| Congress | A branch of government that makes decisions and sends bills to the president to either be approved or vetoed. |
| Due Process of Law | The equal treatment of prisoners and those arrested as stated by the Bill of Rights. |
| Economics | A system of money regulation in the country. |
| Emancipated | To be freed from a power or oppression. |
| Enfranchise | To be granted the power to vote. |
| Enumerated | To mention two groups as separate. |
| Federalism | A part of government that regulates the entire nation. |
| Forty-Niners | The prospectors that went to California to look for gold. |
| Free Enterprise | The system of economics that holds a persons money. |
| Habeas Corpus | The right to see a court |
| Industry | The area a Corporation goes to make specific goods. |
| Judicial | The branch of government that is in charge of the court. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A organization of white supremeists formed post Civil War |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was America's fate to colonize coast to coast |
| Martyr | Someone who died for what they believed in. |
| Monopoly | The control of the distribution of every good of a certain type |
| Nomadic | A group of people or animals that move to hunt and gather their food source |
| Override | To overthrow a decision with your power or multiple people's power |
| Popular Sovereignty | The ability for the people to choose their representatives |
| Ratify | To make true |
| Radical | Someone who wants something they want done now |
| Republicanism | Having decisions be made by someone who represents you. |
| Robber Baron | Someone who has made their money in cruel ways and exploit anything if it makes them money |
| Rural | An area that hasn't been populated by skyscrapers and large corporations |
| Separation of Powers | Keeping all of the the abilities of the Federal and State governments apart form each other |
| Social Darwinism | The belief that only the most fit will survive in a species |
| Sufferage | The ability to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in the land |
| Tariff | A paper showing the duties of government |
| Taxation Without Representation | The act of taxing a group of people without using the taxes to better their community |
| Trade Union | An agreement between businesses to control the market by raising the prices of all their rivaling products |
| Urban | A area of the city that holds a community of people |
| Veto | To block a bill in the process of becoming a law |
| Thomas Jefferson | The third president and the inventor of the light bulb |
| Andrew Jackson | The man responsible for the Trail of Tears |
| Sacagawea | The woman who helped Lewis & Clark on their expadition |
| James Polk | The man who added most of the land to America in Manifest Destiny |
| Fredrick Douglass | Made an abolitionist newspaper known as the North Star |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's cabin which told what slavery was really like |
| John Brown | Preformed the Harpers Fairy Raid against the Southern States and was eventually killed for this |
| Robert E. Lee | Was a Confederate general who when he was defeated led to the CSA's downfall |
| Andrew Johnson | Was the President who rose to power after the death of Abraham Lincoln |
| Susan B. Anthony | Became very famous for fighting for woman's suffrage |
| Sitting Bull | Was a tribe leader who was killed on suspicion of being a Ghost Dancer |
| George Custer | A US general who was killed by the Sioux tribe |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the richest men who made his money off of railroads during the gilded age |
| John Rockefeller | The richest man ever who made his money off of oil |
| Andrew Carneagie | On of the richest men who made his money off of mass producing steel |
| Jamestown | The first settlement in America was originally made to farm tobacco |
| Plymouth | A settlement created to provide religious freedom to former citizens of England |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle fought during the Revolutionary War |
| Erie Canal | A canal dug to connect Lake Ontario to the Hudson River for New York |
| The Alamo | A famous battle fought when Texas was trying to escape and leave Mexico |
| Harper's Ferry | The location that John Brown carried out his raid to try and cripple the South |
| Fort Sumter | A Union fort that was in southern states when they seceded so many disputes were had |
| Gettysburg | The bloodiest battle fought during the civil war, took place when two generals met on a random ecounter |
| Appomattox Courthouse | The location in which the Confederate army had to surrender to the Union soldiers |
| Ford's Theatre | The theatre in which Lincoln was assassinated |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed |
| Ellis Island and Angle Island | The two islands where immigrants would come to become citizens of america Ellis for Europeans, Angle for Asians |
| The Declaration of Independence | The letter sent to the King of Brittan stating us becoming our own country |
| Revolutionary War | The war fought over America when we were trying to leave Brittian |
| Articles of Confederation | The first draft of the Constitution which was scraped because it didn't give enough power to the government |
| Great Comprimise | The statement that states will get equal representation no matter the size or population |
| Passing of the Constitution | The decision to make this part of the country's laws and order |
| Adding the Bill Of Rights | The additon list of the first ten amendments that allowed more freedoms to the citizens of the US |
| Lousiana Purchase | land received from Napoleon which add lots of land to the country for a cheap price |
| Missouri Comprimise | The allowence of missori to be a state proslavery as long as a anti-slavery state was added as well |
| Indian Removal Act | The period when many Indian Tribes were forced to migrate to Kansas |
| Mexican-American War | A war fought after Texas became a state which eventually allowed us to add more land to the country |
| California Gold Rush | Happened when gold was discovered in California many people went to try and get rich but many failed |
| Homestead Act | Stated that if people moved west they could receive free land if they claimed it first |
| Industrial Revolution | The period in which America was converting from agriculture toward the age of steel |
| Underground Railroad | A path that would help many slaves escape the binds of slavery to the North or even to Canada |
| Seneca Falls Convention | A famous place that plays a big part in women's suffrage |
| Compromise of 1850 | the allowance of some states to join as free states but then add more states as slave states |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | The ability for Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their standing on slavery |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | A court battle that eventually ruled that slaves had no rights even in anti-slavery states |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Decreed that any black suspected of being a runaway slave can be caught and be put on trial for running away |
| Bleeding Kansas | A period when Kansas was still undecided on it's status of slavery that was full of fights between Missouri Pro-Slavery and Northern Anti-Slavery people |
| Civil War | The fight between the North and South on whether or not the Southern states may leave the union |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The adress that decided that all slaves were free in areas of rebellion |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Riots that happened because of people who weren't happy they were drafted |
| Gettysburg Adress | A speech that Lincoln gave that inspired many Northerners to continue the fight |
| Reconstruction | A period after the Civil War that was meant to help ease back in the Southern states but eventually failed due to corruption |
| Civil War Ammendments | Three amendments that helped give equal rights to former slaves in southern states |
| Completion of the Trans Continental Railroad | When the railroad that spanned america was finally completed |
| Indian Wars | Battles fought between Indian Tribes and the army over land disputes |
| Gilded Age | A period in history of large economical growth due to booming businesses, where the richest men came from |
| Populist Party | Originated in Kansas mad to give people all the power |
| Plessy v. Fergusion | A court case that regarded how segregation was different from "Separate but equal" |
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