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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change or an addition to a bill, constitution, etc. |
| Assimilate | to take in and fully understand |
| Bias | to feel more affection towards one thing than the other which sways their opinion |
| bicameral | Having two branches, or houses as a legislative body |
| Blockade | closes off people in an area and block them from getting out or in |
| Boomtown | A town or city that has grown very quickly in a short time |
| Capitalism | an economic and political system in which industries are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state |
| Captain of industry | A successful man who runs a business and cares for the workers and the people |
| Checks and Balances | Allows the 3 branches of government to have some power another and makes sure they are doing their job |
| Congress | the national legislative body of a country |
| Due process law | Fair treatment for citizens in any circumstances |
| Economics | the social science that seeks to describe the factors which determine the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services |
| Emancipated | To end slavery |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | to mention a number of things one by one |
| Federalism | The federal principle or system of government |
| Forty-Niners | A prospector in the California gold rush of 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control |
| Habeas Corpus | A law requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
| Industry | The economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| Judicial | A branch in government that sees if bills will be passed on |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret organization that tried to enforce white supremacy |
| Manifest Destiny | Gods belief of moving west |
| Martyr | A person who would rather die than change his or her religion |
| Monopoly | The control over companies by having trust with the different businesses |
| Nomadic | people who move a lot |
| Override | When the judicial branch decides yes and president says no, then 2/3 of the judicial has to say yes to make it a law |
| Popular Sovereignty | the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people |
| Ratify | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid |
| Radical | An extreme version of a party |
| Republicanism | The ideology of governing a society or state as a republic |
| Robber Barron | A greedy business owner who will do anything to become rich and have money |
| rural | an area with not many people, usually farmers |
| Separation of powers | Splits up the government so it wont overpower |
| Social Darwinism | The way humans interact with each other |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in the nation that has 9 judges |
| Tariff | A tax imposed on imported goods and services |
| taxation without representation | Being taxed without a reason behind |
| Trade union | a group of workers who wanted fair work hours and fair wage |
| Urban | a highly populated city in a close area |
| veto | to reject |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president and got the Louisiana territory and invented the light bulb, also one of the founding fathers |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president and known as the common man and signed the Indian Removal act |
| Sacagawea | Major help when Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana territory and guided them and helped them with medical stuff and had a baby with her |
| James K. Polk | president who got the most land for manifest destiny |
| Frederick Douglass | Famous ex-slave who wrote the north star and auto biography who was also a famous abolitionist |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and was an abolitionist |
| John Brown | White abolitionist who used violence to fight |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the confederates during the civil war |
| Andrew JOhnson | One of the worst presidents in history who did not help much during reconstruction |
| Susan B. Anthony | Main leader for women suffragist movement |
| Sitting Bull | Indian chief who got killed at wounded knee |
| George Custer | General who killed Sitting Bull |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Famous millionaire during gilded age by taxing shipping |
| John Rockefeller | Ran standard oil and became millionaire during gilded age |
| Andrew Carnegie | Famous billionaire who got money by mass producing steel |
| Jamestown | First migrated town in the U.S territory from England |
| Plymouth | Migrated town that moved for free religion |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the Revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | Canal that connected NY to Lake Erie and opened lots of trading |
| The Alamo | a fort in Texas that was a tragic loss for Texas |
| Harper's Ferry | a navy base that was about to be raided but they had failed |
| Gettysburg | One of the bloodiest battles in the civil war |
| Appomattox Coarthouse | The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered during the civil war |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The place where all the railroads came together |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | The places where immigrants went before entering the U.S |
| Declaration of Independence | signed July 4th, 1779 it broke the U.S. from England |
| Revolutionary war | The war that was fought between England and the U.S. because the U.S. just broke up with them |
| Articles of Confederation | a rough draft of the Constitution that did not work |
| Great Comprimise | When the Virginian plan and the New Jersey Plan came together to make the judicial branch |
| Passing the Constitution | The Founding fathers finally agreed on the boundaries for governments and the citizens |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | The first 10 amendments that gave rules to the U.S. to follow |
| Louisiana Purchase | A purchase Thomas Jefferson made with the French army so they can get money for war which gave the U.S. west coast |
| Missouri comprimise | Made all the states above Missouri a slave state and made Missouri a state and a slave state |
| Indian Removal act (trail of tears) | Made all the Native Americans move to reservation with little to pack |
| Mexican-American war | A war between Mexico and America for the Texas territory |
| California Gold Rush | When people found out that California territory had gold and people moved to there for gold |
| Homestead act | encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. |
| Industrial Revolution | A period after civil war to reunite the south back to the north but failed |
| Underground railroad | a trail that helped slaves escape from their masters to live free in the north |
| Seneca falls | A convention/ meeting that many women meet to talk about women rights |
| Compromise of 1850 | Made the fugitive slave act which made it so slave hunters can find ex-slave and take them back |
| Kansas-Nebraska act | opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| Dred Scott v. sanford | Slaves can't fight in a court case because they don't count as human |
| Fugitive slave act | Allowed slave hunters to track down ex-slaves who had ran away |
| Bleeding Kansas | Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery |
| Emancipation Proclomation | Freed slaves in areas of rebellious areas of the united states |
| Civil war draft riots | People rioted because people were sent to the field and rich people can buy their way out and the poor were mad by this |
| Gettysburg address | A speech by Abraham Lincoln about 2-3 minutes long that talk about the fallen |
| Reconstruction | The time period after the civil war to rebuild the country back together |
| Civil war amendments | Amendments during and after the civil war that gave blacks freedom, right to vote, and be a full citizen |
| Completion of the transcontinental railroad | When the east coast and west coast railroads finally meet |
| Indian wars | When the Indians fought back and rebelled during the Indian removal act because they don't want to move |
| gilded age | time period when a big boom in the economy of the U.S. and big businesses control the money |
| Populist party | Started in Kansas by farmers, it rebelled rich people for being filthy rich but pays less |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | The states can constitutionally enact legislation requiring persons of different races to use “separate but equal” segregated facilities |
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