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Flashcards by tannercmoore, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | Small Change in the Constitution Adjusting it to make it better |
| Assimilate | To understand or take in To grasp onto an idea or a topic to understand. |
| Bias | To favor or support one group or another person more than the other due to experience or relationship |
| Bicameral | Two branches or Houses in the Government |
| Blockade | To trap inside or not let out or in an area |
| Boomtown | A city improving in size and value extremely fast |
| Capitalism | The system where used by The United States of America government. Controls trade and industry |
| Captain of Industry | Business man who was fair with workers and was a hard worker who never treated any man nor women wrong in deals or trade. |
| Checks and Balances | When each branch of government has power over the other and keeps them in check and sturdy |
| Congress | America's national legislative group Discussions and ideas are talked about and presented here |
| Due process of law | No citizen can be denied his or her individual rights. |
| Economics | The distribution of money and products in our economy |
| Emaciated | To be not allowed to eat and really thin |
| Enfranchise | Give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | Not listed |
| Federalism | National, city, and state governments who do desperate things. |
| Forty-Niners | People who came to California for gold and wealth in 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | Allowing private companies to do whatever they choose |
| Habeus corpus | The right to see a judge or court trial fast |
| Industry | The business of manufacturing goods and shipping them to other companies |
| Judicial | Branch of government were if a law is broken they are taken to court and Judge on it |
| Ku Klux Klan | Group of American terrorists who believed blacks had no rights and southern ways were correct |
| Manifest destiny. | The adventure out west to catch the American dream and gain money |
| Martyr | Someone Who would die for religious cause |
| Monopoly | When one business or another combine and become too powerful for our economy |
| Nomadic | Nomad lifestyle. No home no way of life |
| Override | To overrule or deny something |
| Popular sovereignty | The people of the government source of power |
| Ratify | To approve |
| Radical | Extreme |
| Republicanism | Principles of the republican party |
| Robber Baron | A leader of his company who is not fair to his workers and is cruel |
| Rural | Outside the city country type feel area |
| Separation of powers | One group of the government has power over the other separating the powers |
| Social Darwinism | People must fight in the economic world to be successful and adapt |
| Suffrage | To not allowed to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in all the land nine Judges |
| Tariff | Duties is your customs one must show |
| Taxation without representation | George was still taxing Americans even know they left the continent of Europe and we can came to America |
| Trade union | Group of workers or union who form together to get something they want done |
| Urban | City like feel to a place where more industrial type products are made |
| Veto | To deny or cancel |
| Declaration of Independence | Signed in 1776 this document announced freedom from Britain and gave us our own nation |
| Thomas Jefferson | Founding father, author of the Declaration of Independence and saw huge things for America |
| Andrew Johnson | President during reconstruction and was known as veto president for always vetoing bills. |
| Andrew Jackson | Seventh US President was considered a common man and was very rebellious in like to fight |
| Sacajawea | Helped Lewis and Clark travel across United States and find a river from Missouri to the Pacific ocean and help them eat and survive |
| James Polk | US president who gained us tons of land from other countries and wanted to expand our are you as president who gained us tons of land from other countries our nation |
| Frederick Douglass | Slave who was a huge towards the abolish of slavery and led many speeches and groups |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin and influenced many and showed many how awful slavery really was. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist Who was from Kansas and wanted to free all slaves. Harpers Ferry raid |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who led his army to many victories and was a proud Virginia man |
| Susan B Anthony | Women's rights leader who believe women were equal to men big lead in women's rights |
| Sitting Bull | Chief of the Lakota tribe. Was a huge part of Indian American war |
| George Custer | Leader of the Army. Fought against the Lakota tribe and sitting bull and died during the battle |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the men who started our nation. Owned all railroads and was a captain of industry. |
| John Rockefeller | John was a captain of industry who owned standard oil and was the richest man to ever live in America. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Largest steel meal owner in America. Had more money than most. Helped others out but was unfair. |
| Revolutionary War | The war that granted us freedom from Britian and got us to be our own free country. |
| Articles of Confederation | Original Piece of writing that ruled how our nation was going to work but was weak. |
| Great Compromise. | Compromise that helped us get out of the war against each other of who got what land. |
| Passing of the Constitution | The Constitution gave us our rights and are ways of life we followed it every day and must keep doing that to keep our nation running |
| Adding to the bill of rights | The Bill of Rights was added to ensure that people would get the things they wanted in laws would be upheld |
| Louisiana Purchase | Land purchased from French that expanded our nation a lot. |
| Missouri Compromise | The Missouri compromise allowed any state under the 36 30 lines of latitude. |
| Indian removal act | Andrew Johnson said that we could have a bigger nation of we moved all the Indians so he did. |
| Mexican American war | War between Mexico and America between over Texas and who gets that land. And California |
| California gold rush | The California cold was in 49 and many people went to California for gold. |
| Homestead act | The homestead act allowed people to stay at their homes and love where they wanted in the States. |
| Industrial revolution | The great increase in Industrial improvements and many people had many new improvements |
| Underground Railroad | the underground railroad was a path taken to transport slaves to the North |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Huge women rights convention in Seneca falls new york |
| Compromise of 1850 | Replaced the Missouri compromise and gained land from Mexican American war was free land |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Kansas was a free state and so was Nebraska and this was the result of this act |
| Dredd Scott Vs. Sanford | Dredd Scott wen to the supreme court to see if he was a free man because he lived in a free state |
| Fugitive Slave act | any escaped slave will be returned to their owner without question |
| Bleeding Kansas | many battles were fought to see if Kansas was a free state or slave state |
| Civil War | The war fought to decide if north and south could become one nation again |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all slaves in the south and didn't free the slaves of the border states |
| Civil War Drafts | Drafts held to get people into the civil war so we can have more troops |
| Gettysburg Address | Abe Lincolns speech about the war and who was going to win and what was going to happen |
| Reconstruction | The reconstruction of our nation after the civil war and we were rebuilding |
| Civil war amendements | 13th, 14th and 15th amendments |
| Completion of the transcontinental railroad | the railroad that went all the way across the nation and many new cities went huge. |
| Indian Wars | The Indian wars are wars fought over Indian territories |
| Gilded Age | The Gilded age was a time when we were booming our industry and many people opened new businesses and many became rich |
| Populist Party | The party started in Kansas that was meant for farmers who could fight for evenness |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | A fair trial between whites and blacks where fair trials were held and many were satisfied |
| Jamestown | first settlement in America |
| Plymouth | First religious settlement, pilgrims |
| Lexington and Concord | First battle of revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | Canal across New York |
| The alamo | battle in Texas that was fought between Mexicans an Americans |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown led a raid to harpers ferry to lead a slave rebellion. |
| Fort Sumter | Where the first battle of the civil war took place. |
| Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle in civil war |
| Appromattix Courthouse | General Robert E. Lee surrendered the war. |
| Fords Theature | Abe Lincoln got shot in the fords theater and John Wilkes booth did it there. |
| Promontory Point | Where the two trains met from east and west in the middle. |
| Ellis and Angel Island | The two main immigration places where people are going to come to America. |
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