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Flashcards by Rock Houghton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rock Houghton
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | To add to the constitution or change it. |
| Assimilate | To understand completely. Or to adapt to a culture |
| Bias | In favor of |
| Blockade | Not allowing to let any goods or supplies and not letting any people in or out |
| Bicameral ` | Having to branches for the Legislative group |
| Boomtown | A town that is growing at a fast rate |
| Capitalism | Its when an individual or a private owner trades with someone from a different country with out help from there government |
| Captain of Industry | A captain of industry is someone who pays there worker well and gives them good working hours and safe working conditions |
| Checks And Balances | Political power that is not controlled by one individual party |
| Congress | The Legislative body of the United States of America |
| Due Process of Law | Fair treatment through the Judicial system |
| Economics | The consumption and the transfer of wealth |
| Emancipated | Top be set free |
| Enfranchise | Right to vote |
| Enumerated | One by one |
| Federalism | System of government |
| Forty-niners | 1849 gold rush |
| Free Enterprise | When a private company is in control of smaller companies |
| Habeas Corpus | Aloud to see a judge |
| Industry | Raw materials that manufacture goods in the factory's |
| Judicial | The Judicial branch is the court/judges |
| KU Klux Klan | A group of whites that do not like blacks |
| Manifest Destiny | The expansion westward |
| Martyr | someone who is killed because of there belief |
| Monopoly | control of supply and trade |
| Nomadic | something or someone that moves around a lot |
| Override | someone that is above you and rejects it |
| Popular Sovereignty | the authority of the government is created and sustained by people |
| Ratify | to make official |
| Radical | Affecting the fundamentals nature |
| Republicanism | In favor of Republic |
| Robber Baron | A Robber Baron is a person who owns a company that pays his or her workers poorly and dose not give them safe working conditions |
| Rural | Not he city but the country |
| Separation of Powers | When all of the branches of government are separate body's |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that the weaker smaller plants and animals and people would die off and the stronger smarter would survive |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| supreme Court | highest federal court in the United States above all of the courts |
| Tariff | A tax to be paid on a certain importance |
| Taxation Without Representation | when the colonist could not choose there representative |
| Trade Union | Different word for a work union |
| Urban | not the country but the city/town |
| Veto | the president can say no and send it back |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thrid president of the United states and the founder of the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | the seventh president of the united states and was the first common man to become a president |
| Sacagawea | helped lewis and Clark on there exposition |
| James K. Polk | 11th president of the united states |
| Frederick Douglas | he was a abolitionist and wrote the Orator |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin |
| John Brown | wanted to free blacks and tried to get them to start a uprising through the slaves |
| Robert E. Lee | commander of the confederate army |
| Andrew Johnson | became president after Abe Lincoln's assassination |
| Susan B. Anthony she played a big role in the women's right suffrage movement | she played a big role in the women's right suffrage movement |
| Sitting Bull | a native american of the sioux tribe and disagreed with the united states policies |
| George Custer | army officer of the cavalry he was a commander |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | he built railroads |
| John Rockefeller | co owner of a oil business that did really good |
| Andrew Carnegie | had a steal company and did really well with it |
| James town | a town where the colonist would live in the new country |
| Plymouth | English settlement came here for religious freedoms had first thanksgiving there |
| Lexington and concord | British soldiers were sent to take the colonist weapons from them but we're attacked by colonist and were defeated |
| Erie canal | connecting the Hudson rover at Albany to Lake Erie |
| the Alamo | when the mexicans under Santa Anne massacred the American Rebels |
| Harpers Ferry | John Browns raid where he and his followers captured the arsenal there |
| Fort Sumter | the first battle in the civil war |
| Gettysburg | bloodiest battle in the civil war |
| Appomattox | where general Lee Grant surrendered |
| Fords theater | Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there |
| Promontory point Utah | where the union Pacific and the Central pacific met and the railroads were connected |
| Ellis island and Angel island | it is where the immigrants would go to become an American citizen |
| Declaration of Independence | letter to king James the third saying that they were there own country called America |
| Revolutionary war | when the united states of America fought for there freedom from England |
| Articles of confederation | it was the first constitution of the united States of America |
| Great Compromise | an agreement between large and small states |
| Passing the Consititution | when the 13 states sighned the Consititution |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | People thought it did not protect there individual rights |
| Louisiana Purchase | it was purchased for 25 million dollars from France |
| Missouri Compromise | when Missouri wanted to be a pro-slavery state |
| Indian Removal Act | was when all the indians were moved to the reservations and they had to walk the trail of tears |
| Mexican American war | when the united states and Mexico were fighting of territory now known ass California, Arizona, Nevada... |
| California Gold Rush | when around 300,000 men came to California because they heard that gold was found there |
| Homestead Act | when people got land for little or no cost at all |
| Industrial Revolution | when machines were invented and made it easier to manufacture stuff and more stuff were invented at that time |
| Underground railroad | a secrete path for slaves to run away and people would keep them safe as they went |
| Seneca Falls Convention | was the first women's rights conventions |
| compromise of 1850 | that it allowed California to become a free state and Missouri to become a slave state |
| Kansas Nebraska act | it was opening the territories for new land for settlement and they could choose if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state |
| Dred Scott V.S Standford | Dred Scott lost because he led a rebellion of slaves and killed his master and other masters in the area |
| Fugitive Slave act | it was for the return of slaves that were hiding in the freed states |
| Bleeding Kansas | it was when Kansas and Missouri were arguing and People from Missouri would come and vote to be a slave state even though they did not live in Kansas |
| Civil War | was when the south separated from the North and the south called themselves the confederate states of America and they fought against the North the union |
| Emancipated Proclamation | it freed slave |
| Civil War Draft riots | when the people that could afford to pay there selfs from going to war the people that could not did not like that and would form riots |
| Gettysburg Address | it was to remember the fallen soldiers from the Gettysburg battle |
| Reconstruction | After the civil war they would start to rebuild there cities and try to have the confederates mend the patch and have the North and South agree again |
| Civil war Amendments 13th 14th and 15th | 13th amendment is to abolish slavery 14th amendment is it guaranties equality 15th amendment rights regardless of race |
| Completion of the transcontinental railroads | when the two railroad companies came together and completed the railroad |
| Indian wars | when the Indians fought back for there freedom so that they would not have to go the the reservations |
| Gilded Age | it was a time of rapid growth in society |
| Populist Party | it was formed in Kansas by the people |
| Plessy V.S Freguson | when they were arguing about the railroads |
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