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Flashcards by Daniel_Fair, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A law that was added to the constitution |
| Assimilate | take in or understand new ideas |
| Bias | to favorite one side of a argument |
| Blockade | a way to stop or prevent something from happening |
| Bicameral | having two branches |
| boomtown | a town that goes rapidly due to wealth |
| Capitalism | when a countries wealth is controlled by private people |
| Captain of industry | during the industrial revolution people who got wealthy helped the country in a good way |
| Checks and Balances | a way to keep the government in order |
| Congress | a body of government for that country |
| Due process of law | fair treatment through the judicial court system |
| Economics | a branch that needs you to have knowledge |
| Emancipated | to be freed/liberated |
| Enfranchise | a way people can carry out commercials granted by the government or a company |
| Enumerated | a way to say a order of things |
| Federalism | a system of goverment |
| Forty-Niners | a person in the gold rush in California in 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | when private business people compete without state control |
| Habeas Corpus | the right to be seen by a judge or jury |
| Industry | activity doing with raw materials |
| Judical | a court or judge |
| Ku Klax Klan | an organization in the south that wanted whites to be the leaders |
| Manifest Destiny | In the 19th century people believed we should expand west |
| martyr | someone who would die than change religons |
| Monopoly | control over companies by having a trust with others |
| Nomadic | relating to |
| Override | to reject a veto by having 2/3 |
| Popular Sovereignty | the people run the goverment |
| Ratify | to make something offical |
| Radical | to be extreme |
| Republicanism | when one person is the head of the state |
| Robber Baron | a person who became rich from ruthless ways |
| Rural | a countryside not a town |
| Separation of power | to have 3 different parts of a government |
| Social Darwinism | that everyone is natural selection |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest court in the USA |
| Tariff | a tax to be paid by a certain group/ or person |
| Taxation without representation | a slogan chanted by colonists which made them not able to elect people |
| Trade Union | another term for labor union |
| Urban | a town/city |
| Veto | when the president says NO to a bill |
| Thomas Jefferson | made the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | was considered a president just like the common folk and helped in the war of 1812 |
| Sacagawea | she was the native american girl who lead Lewis and Clark on the Expedition of Exploration |
| James Polk | was the 11th president and the considered to be the youngest |
| Fredrick Douglas | he was a huge help in the effort to end slavery |
| Harriet Beecher | wrote a book about slavery |
| John Brown | huge help to end slavery |
| Robert E. Lee | was the leader of the south until he surrendered |
| Andrew Johnson | president because Abraham Lincoln died |
| Susan B. Anthony | was on of the leaders for women rights |
| Sitting Bull | was one of the leaders of the native Americans that didn't want his land taken over |
| George Custer | was the military guy that went to little big horn thinking he would win that battle but lost |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | was one of the richest men alive that produced steel |
| John Rockerfeller | he was one of the COI in the gilded ages got rich from oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | he got rich in the gilded ages off of steel |
| Jamestown | was the first settlement by americans |
| Plymouth | was the second settlement established by americans |
| Lexington and Concord | was the first battle of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | a man made canal |
| The Alamo | a war that was fought between Texans and Mexicans |
| Harper's Ferry | the place where a raid happened |
| fort sumter | the first major battle during the civil war |
| Gettysburg | one of the bloodiest battles |
| Appomattox courthouse | this is where Robert E. Lee surrendered |
| Ford's Theater | where president Lincoln was killed |
| Promontory Point,Utah | where the mountains are before a lake |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Where immigrants has to go before coming in America |
| Declaration of Independence | Filled out in 1976 declared our independence |
| Revolutionary War | the war between the colonist against the British |
| Articles of Confederation | The thing before the declaration of independence that didn't enforce anything |
| Great Compromise | When the states were mad that they were getting less representatives in the senate |
| Passing of the constitution | when the forever changing sheet of paper was in the process |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | A paper that said everyone has these rights |
| Louisiana Purchase | When Thomas Jefferson helped with a huge part of manifest destiny and bought this from the French |
| Missouri Compromise | A bill that said anything below this line is a slave state |
| Indian Removal Acts | A bill passed that said all Indians in this area must move |
| Mexican-American War | This war was over for the Texas Territory |
| California Gold Rush | When someone found gold and everyone rushed this area |
| Homestead act | An act that said if you come over here there is a chance that you can get 160 acres free |
| Industrial Revolution | Where America really boomed in technology |
| Underground Railroad | a safe path that slaves could escape on |
| Seneca Falls Convection | a place where leaders of the Womens rights movement gathered |
| Compromise of 1850 | abolished slave trade |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | said Kansas is a slave state and Nebraska is a free state |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | when dred scott a slave in a free state lost a case |
| Fugitive Slave act | said any slave caught trying or suspected to be a slave can be returned to the south |
| Bleeding Kansas | when Kansas was fighting over either to be free state or slave state |
| Civil War | Americans against Americans |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Slavery is illegal in rebel places |
| Civil War Draft Riots | when people were angry because of the drafts |
| Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln gave this after the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Reconstruction | a period that the United States had to go through to forgive everyone |
| Civil War Amendments | Gave rights to blacks |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | Really improved the railroads helps getting things around faster |
| Indian Wars | Wars that changed America |
| Gilded Age | A time where many people became rich off of steel, oil, Cars, railroads, etc. |
| Populist Party | started in Kansas said that we don't want to follow the goverment |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | A court case that ruled 7-1 |
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