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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | an official change to a law. |
| Assimilate | take into |
| Bias | preconceived opinion |
| Bicameral | having two branches of government |
| Blockcade | interruption of a passage way |
| Boomtown | town that grows rapidly |
| Capitalism | Economic system that means owning a business makes you rich |
| Captain of Industry | The good owner that gives workers many benefits and created the good for the better of the world. |
| Checks and Balances | when each others powers are given to one another to keep the branches in check |
| Congress | the legislative body |
| Due process of law | all trials will be fair, and able to appeal before a court |
| Economics | factors that determine how much a product is bought. |
| Emancipated | to be set free |
| Enfranchise | give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | listed |
| Federalism | power is FED through city, state, and national government |
| Forty niners | a team name based off of the year gold was found, 1949, in california |
| free enterprise | Private business can operate for profit |
| Habeas corpus | requires people who have been arrested to be tryed in court |
| industry | buisness |
| judicial | the branch of government that interprets the laws |
| KKK | the klan that is for white supremacy and doesn't like African Americans |
| manifest destiny | the belief that God told them to move west |
| martyr | someone who would die for religon |
| Monopoly | Exclusive control of a market |
| Nomadic | relating to |
| override | to over rule judgement |
| Popular Sovereignty | people choose the government |
| Ratify | apporval |
| Radicsl | extrem |
| republicanism | property's of republic |
| robber barron | owner of a company that only cares about his own well and treats employees unfairly |
| rural | Living in the country |
| separation of powers | the government is separated into 3 different branches, executive, judicial, and legislative |
| social Darwinism | those with better social skills will suceed |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest us court |
| tariff | list that tells the governments duties |
| taxation with out no representation | money taken with no input on why |
| trade union | employees can join forces and get better benefits from there jobs |
| urban | living in the city |
| veto | when a president vetos a law it doesn't pass unless overriden |
| Thomas Jeffferson | founding father, one of the creators for the constitution, the 3rd president of the U.S. |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the U.S. first commons man president, in charge of the Indian romoval act |
| sacagawea | was a Guide and translator to Lewis and Clark on there expedition |
| James Polk | know as mr. manifest destiny, was apart of the move west, 11th president of the U.S. |
| Fredrick Douglass | an escaped slave that started the liberator and became an abolitionist leader |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | the author of uncle toms cabin and another abolistonist who helped get rid of slaves |
| John brown | apart of bleeding Kansas, and was the leader of harpers ferry raid |
| Robert E Lee | a general in the civil war, was for the confederates |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president of the U.S. after Lincolnshire assination, tryed for reconstruction |
| Susan B Anthony | was a women's suffrage, made antislavery petitions and born into a Quaker family |
| sitting bull | he was a brave Indian leader who rebelled against U.S. and defeated the General George custer |
| George Custer | was defeated by sitting bull the Indian leader |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | one of the richest men in America, was big with the railroad and shipping |
| John Rockfeller | one of the richest men in the U.S. and got his money from selling oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | another richest man of the U.S., got his money from producing and selling steel, and donated money to Charity |
| Jamestown | Jamestown was one of the first towns in America |
| Plymouth | the first American civilization |
| Lexington and Concord | the first battle of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | the passage way from New York to Michigan, good for trade |
| the Alamo | located in text, the place were Mexican war took place |
| harpers ferry | where the harpers ferry raid took place |
| fort sumter | sea fort located in charleston bay |
| Gettysburg | where a battle took place, it was the bloodiest one, and most deaths. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | I located in Virginia, where the southerners surrended to the north |
| fords theater | where Abraham Lincoln was signed |
| promontory point Utah | the official point where the two railroads tracks met |
| Ellis island and angel island | where immigrants wanting to join american would go before actually joining the country |
| Declaration of Independence | the document that broke up with England |
| revolutionary war | the war between Britain and our new country |
| articles of confederation | the first constitution that was a mistake because there was no way to Carrie out the laws |
| great compromise | created the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan |
| passing of the consitution | aloud everyone 10 amendments |
| adding the bill of rights | gave us 10 different rights |
| Louisiana purchase | bought by Andrew Jackson expanded America extremely |
| Missouri compromise | anything above Missouri would be a free state anything below would be a slave state |
| Indian removal act | all Indians were located Oklahoma |
| Mexican American war | battle for Texas and who would get the land |
| California gold rush | gold was found in California and everyone fled there to get a chance of striking it rich |
| homestead act | anyone could go live on this land for free |
| industrial revolution | went from farming to technology |
| Underground Railroad | to help get slaves out of the south to the free slaves |
| Seneca falls convention | women's right meeting that was very important |
| compromise of 1850 | gave some states the right to vote if they wanted to be a free or slave state |
| Kansas Nebraska act | made either a free state or a slave state and opened land for living |
| Dred Scott v sanford | dred scott was ruled as property not a person |
| fugitive slave act | any escaped slaves had to be returned to there owner |
| bleeding Kansas | John brow had a big impact with this |
| civil war | between north and south about slavery |
| emancipation proclamation | announces slaves should be freed |
| civil war draft riots | poorer people were angry about richer getting to pay not to go to war |
| gettyburgs adress | Lincoln gave a pep talk about how they were fight for the past who have fought |
| reconstruction | the time after the civil war used to put the U.S. back together |
| Civil war admendments | 13th- abolished slavery 14th- granted AA citizenship 15th- AA men right to vote |
| completion of trans-continental railroad | completed when the two different railroad company's met at promontory point |
| Indian wars | many tribes didn't want to live on limited land and didn't want to assimilate so they tried fighting |
| gilded age | the age of boomtowns, big businesses and robber barrons |
| populist party | created by Kansas farmers, to take back the government for common people |
| plessy v ferguson | court case that decided that they need to be separate but equal |
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