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Question | Answer |
Amendment | A change in a document |
Assimilate | To change |
Bias | To favor a person or group |
Bicameral | Two branches or chambers |
Blockade | Never letting something, and never letting something out |
Boomtown | A town that has grown rapidly |
Capitalism | My money. (ownership) |
Captian of industry | A person who makes there money and gives it to charities |
Checks and balances | Making sure no one overpowers one another. |
Congress | The national legislative body of a country |
Due process | respect for the other property of a person |
Economics | Government money |
Emancipated | To be free from bondage and slavery |
Enfranchise | to vote |
Enumerated | a number of things |
Federalism | A system of government |
Forty-Niners | Men in California looking for gold in the gold rush |
Free Enterprise | A economic system that goes by large and small states |
Habeus Corpus | legal proceeding |
Industry | processing material and manufactured goods |
Judicial | A branch involving local, state, and federal governments |
Ku Klux Klan | A society to scare blacks and for white supremacy |
Manifest Destiny | To stretch from coast to coast |
Martyr | A person killed for their religious beliefs |
Monoply | to bankrupt or get rid of another buisness |
Nomadic | A person that is in a tribe and moves place to place without a permanent home |
Override | to overrule something and not let it go through |
Popular sovereignty | By the people and for the people, the people are in charge |
Ratify | Signing and making a document official |
Radical | A person that does extreme things |
Republicanism | Governing a society or state |
Robber Baron | A person who makes money and only cares about himself and is selfish |
Rural | Characteristic of the country side |
Seperation of powers | Legislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
Social Darwinism | The laws of evolution |
Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections |
Supreme Court | The highest Judicial court in a country or state |
Tariff | A tax or duty |
Taxation without representation | taxing people without their consent |
Trade Union | another term for a labor union |
Urban | Characteristic of a city or town |
Veto | To reject something |
Thomas Jefferson | He was our founding father, and wrote the Declaration of Independence |
Andrew Jackson | He was the 7th president and was the one who enforced the Trail of Tears |
Sacagawea | She helped guide Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
James K. Polk | He was Mr. Manifest destiny, and the 11th president |
Frederick Douglass | He was a ex slave and a writer |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | She rote a book about the things the south did to slaves |
John Brown | John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection |
John Brown | John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection |
Robert E. Lee | Robert Edward Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia |
Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson was the 17th President |
Susan B. Anthony | She was the leader of the suffrage movement |
Sitting Bull | The leader of the Lakota tribe |
George Custer | George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | he was the first person to produce steel |
John Rockefeller | The first person to produce oil |
Andrew Carnegie | He was the first person to produce steel |
Jamestown | |
Plymouth | |
Lexington and Concord | |
Erie Canal | |
The Alamo | |
Harper's Ferry | |
Fort Sumter | |
Gettysburg | |
Appomatex | |
Fords Theater | |
Promontory Point, Utah | |
Ellis Island and Angel Island | |
Declaration of Independence | A document made to have liberty and freedom |
Revolutionary war | American war of independence |
Articles of Confederation | The first written constitution of america |
Great compromise | An agreement the large and small states reached |
Passing the Constitution | Amendments to the United States Constitution, unlike ones made to many constitutions world-wide |
Adding the bill of rights | Delegates rejected a motion made by George Mason author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 to preface the Constitution of the United States with a bill of rights |
Louisiana Purchase | 828,000 square miles by the United States from France in 1803. |
Missouri Compromise | It was a dividing line the divided the north and the south up |
Indian removal acts | When Andrew made the Indian's move from there land |
Mexican American war | when the Mexicans and Americans were fighting over land |
California gold rush | When some people in California found gold and everyone rushed to find some to |
Homestead act | providing settlers 160 acres of public land |
Industrial Revolution | when the people were making everything a machine to move faster and produce more |
Underground Railroad | When Harriet Tubman brought slaves, after she was freed |
Seneca Falls Convection | This convention marks a major step toward women's equality |
Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay was trying to turn away the crisis against the north and the south |
Kansas Nebraska Act | opening new lands for settlement |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | holding that blacks could not be U.S. citizens, exacerbated sectional tensions between North and South |
Fugitive slave act | provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves |
Bleeding Kansas | A period of violence during the settling of Kansas territory |
Civil War | A war against the North and south to decide if slavery is legal or non legal |
Emancipation Proclamation | A document Abraham Lincoln passed to free slaves |
Civil War draft riots | A four day violence on New York City during the civil war |
Gettysburg Address | A 2 minute speech Abraham Lincoln made after the Gettysburg war |
Reconstruction | The remaining of the war where everyone is repairing the damage of the Civil war |
Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) | 13th- granted citizenship 14th- Freedom for the blacks 15th- Gave the African Americans the right to vote |
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | the completion of the transcontinental railroad enabled the American conquest and settlement of the West |
Indian Wars | Conflicts between the American soldiers and he Native American Soldiers |
Gilded Age | The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth |
Populist Party | A third party movement the came up in the 1890's and drew support from farmers |
Plessy v. Ferguson | 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad |
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