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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | an addition or change to a document |
| Assimilate | to get information and to understand it |
| Bias | being in favor of something |
| Bicameral | having two branches in legislation |
| blockade | to prevent people or goods from coming in or going out |
| boomtown | a town that grows quickly because of sudden prosperity |
| capitalism | a political system that has privately owned businesses and competition between the different organizations |
| Captain of Industry | a business leader who works his or her way to the top |
| Checks and Balances | limits given to the businesses from the government to avoid the acts that aren't necessary for themselves |
| Congress | the legislation of a country |
| Due process of law | the same fair treatment is given to everyone through the judicial system |
| economics | dealing with making and selling goods in a country or region |
| emancipated | to free from bondage (liberated) |
| enfranchise | to give the right to vote |
| enumerated | to mention something one by one |
| Federalism | a system in the government where the power is divided among the national and state government |
| Forty-niners | a person who went to California during the gold rush in 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | a system that the private businesses are in competition and mainly free of state control |
| Habeas Corpus | a law that requires any person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
| Industry | the process of raw materials and manufacture goods in a factory |
| Judicial | to a court or a judge |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | a secret society organized after the civil war to maintain white supremacy in the south by means of terrorism |
| Manifest Destiny | the expansion of the United States through the American contients |
| Martyr | a person who dies because of their religious or other beliefs |
| Monopoly | when a business is so in control that it makes it possible to manipulate prices |
| Nomadic | roaming around from place to place |
| Override | to use one's authority to reject or cancel something |
| Popular Sovereignty | the citizens are the source of power for the government |
| Ratify | To give concsent to something; to approve |
| Radical | Considered to have an extreme view on something |
| Republicanism | The people elect their political representatives |
| Robber Baron | Cruel and ruthless business men who would stop at nothing to reach the top and gain wealth |
| Rural | More of a country place rather than in the town |
| Separation of Powers | Each branch has it's own job and responsibility to do |
| Social Darwinism | The most successful, strong and powerful people over power the more weak people |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest judicial court |
| Tariff | A tax that needs to be paid on imports and exports |
| Taxation Without Representation | When American colonists were taxed by the British without reasoning |
| Trade Union | An organized association of workers often in a trade or profession formed to protect their rights and interests |
| Urban | Referring to more of a city like or downtown place |
| Veto | to reject or say no to |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the 3rd president, wrote the declaration of independence, thought all men were created equal |
| Andrew Jackson | The first common man president, 7th president, led a victory against the british at the battle of New Orleans in 1815 |
| Sacagawea | Guide for Lewis and Clark expedition and showed them the beauty along the way |
| James K. Polk | Known as Mr. Manifest Destiny, 11th president from 1845-1849, started out in congress and was also the governor of Tennessee |
| Frederick Douglass | A slave that had a father who was the slave holder and a mother who was a slave, he moves to many houses and learns how to write, wrote the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", becomes a well known abolitionist |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin, famous abolitionist, experienced a slave auction that inspired her writing |
| John Brown | Anti-Slavery, attempted to attack Harper Ferry during Bleeding Kansas but failed, seen as a hero in northern eyes |
| Robert E. Lee | Major confederate general in the civil war, battled general Ulysses S. Grant in a few battles |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president, Lincoln's vice president until he got assassinated and then became president, known as the veto president, did a bad job starting off reconstruction after the civil war |
| Susan B. Anthony | President of the National American Women Suffrage Association, helped push for the 19th amendment to be added |
| Sitting Bull | Native American chief for the Sioux tribes, led battles to victories against American troops, eventually surrendered to U.S. and was forced on a reservation |
| George Custer | U.S. officer who served in the American Civil War, led at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the battle known as "Custers Last Stand" was a part of a war against plain indians |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | shipping and railroad man made multi-millionaire, in the process of the Commodore he became ruthless like a Robber Baron, worth more than $100 million. |
| John Rockefeller | Founder of Standard Oil Company, controlled 90% of America's pipeline, raised prices to form a monopoly, donated more than $500 million to charities |
| Andrew Carnegie | made a fortune in the steel industry, he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to banker John Pierpont Morgan for $480 million, donated more than $350 million to charities |
| Jamestown | a group of about 100 people colonized here, the first English settlement |
| Plymouth | the mayflower anchored here in late December, first settlement of the Europeans |
| Lexington and Concord | where the first battle was fought that started the Revolutionary war, in Concord Paul Revere warned them that the British were coming, in Lexington they started fighting but the British left running |
| Erie Canal | to make transportation in early day America easier, they linked together the Hudson river and Lake Erie |
| The Alamo | during Texas's fight for independence, General Santa Anna ordered Mexican troops to take over the fort, the 200 volunteers however won and protected the fort |
| Harper's Ferry | during Bleeding Kansas this is where John Brown planned to raid to take over their weapons and win for the anti-slavery |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shots were fired in the civil war that ended in a confederate victory |
| Gettysburg | the biggest battle in the civil war that ended in a Union victory |
| Appomattox Courthouse | where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, considered to be the end of the civil war |
| Ford's Theatre | Where John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Abraham Lincoln |
| Promontory Point, Utah | where the east and the west sides of the transcontinental railroaded connected and made the United States whole |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | In 1905, construction of an Immigration Station began, also known as China Cove |
| Declaration of Independence | signed on the 4th of July, contains the goals of our nations and to be freed from the British king |
| Revolutionary War | a war for Americas Independence and for the men to protect their individual rights |
| Articles of Confederation | the first constitution that was changed because it didn't contain the necessary needs/limits for the government and people |
| Great Compromise | it allowed two branches in the government, one for size of population and the other based on eqality |
| Passing of the Constitution | at the constitutional convention mostly leaded by George Washington, started as the Articles of Confederation |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | these protected the rights of the people rather than the power of the government |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson bought land from France because they were in debt from war, biggest land purchase, 4 cents per acre |
| Missouri Compromise | this compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| Indian Removal Act | signed by Andrew Jackson, made Indians move off of their land to unwanted land, many walked the Trail of Tears that ended in many deaths |
| Mexican-American War | caused by the disagreement of the Texas border after it came into the United States, ended with the treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo |
| California Gold Rush | people who went here were known as forty-niners, thousands of miners came here and it is one of the major events that helped shape America |
| Homestead Act | opened settlement in the West for any American or freed slave, gave 160 acres of free federal land |
| Industrial Revolution | when American went from rural to urban, many inventions occurred during this time period |
| Underground Railroad | a secret way slaves would escape and go north, they would leave clues and things to help them on their jouney |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The women's rights movement began with a meeting here, got the 19th amendment passed |
| Compromise of 1850 | consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | allowed the people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they would allow slavery within their borders |
| Dred Scott v. Stanford | ruled that blacks, even if they are free, are not American citizens and therefor can not sue in federal court |
| Fugitive Slave Act | allowed people to capture and return any runaway slaves in the United States, if you didn't you would be punished and same for the slave |
| Bleeding Kansas | the period of time that involved violence during the settlement of Kansas, violence occurred between pro-slavery and anti-slavery |
| Civil War | the southern states seceded from the United States and resulted into a war that was won by the north that brought America back together |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln said that all slaves are free and forever free and outlawed slavery |
| Civil War drat riots | a law was made that said that all men between the age 20 and 45 were liable to the army, many fights and violence occurred in the disagreement to this |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech given to by Abraham Lincoln that encouraged the North to keep on fighting and to win the war so that the fallen soldiers wouldn't die in vein |
| Reconstruction | the time period after the civil war that had to bring the north and the south back together with minimal violence |
| Civil War Amendments (13,14,15) | abolished and outlawed slavery, anyone born in the United States are citizens including African Americans, gave African American men the right to vote |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | Promontory Point, Utah, connected the west and east side of the transcontinental railroad and brought America together |
| Indian Wars | Native Americans and Europeans came to settle, both thought they were the more superior/important one, ended in violence and wars |
| Gilded Age | after the civil war there was an economic boom, many different businesses grew larger, American economy doubled in size |
| Populist Party | a political organization in 1892 to represent the common person, against railroads, bankers and supported mostly farmers |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | came from an incident when an African American refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, law that implies a legal distinction |
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