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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change added to a document |
| Assimilate | to adapt to a new culture |
| Bias | to be on a side with unfair reasoning or support |
| Bicameral | the two houses in government |
| Blockade | to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving a place |
| Boomtown | a town going through big amounts of growth due to finance |
| Capitalism | an economic and political system in which the country is controlled by private owners for money and competition |
| Captain of Industry | A business leader that makes his money in a positive way to a country |
| Checks and Balances | Each branch of government holds some control over the other two branches |
| Congress | the legislative body of a country |
| Due process of law | fair treatment in court when on trial |
| Economics | knowledge focused on the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth |
| Emancipated | To free from bondage |
| Enfranchise | to give someone the right to vote |
| Enumerated | not listed, usually talking about the constitution |
| Federalism | In this government system, power is divided between Federal or National, and State governments |
| Forty-niners | someone looking for mineral deposits 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 | the right for someone to go to court and be seen before a judge after being arrested or charged |
| Industry | economic activity dealing with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| Judicial | interpret the laws |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the US should expand its territory from coast to coast BIFFISI |
| Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious beliefs |
| Monopoly | When one company takes control of another company |
| Nomadic | involves moving around a lot |
| Override | When a political party pushes over a president's veto of a bill |
| Popular Sovereignty | People are the source of the government's power |
| Ratify | To approve |
| Radical | upload definition |
| Republicanism | People elect their political representatives |
| Robber Baron | Cruel and ruthless businessmen who would stop at nothing to achieve great wealth, accused of exploiting workers and being unfair to the laborer |
| Rural | countryside rather than the town |
| Separation of Powers | Each of the three branches of government has its own responsibilities |
| Social Darwinism | the theory that people, groups are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest |
| Suffrage | the right to vote in political elections |
| Supreme Court | the highest judicial court in a country or state |
| Tariff | a tax or duty to be paid |
| Taxation without representation | upload definition |
| Trade Union | a group typically made of workers that is formed to protect and further their rights and interests |
| Urban | town or city |
| Veto | rejecting a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president that signed the Louisiana Purchase and doubled the size of our country |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president who signed the Indian Removal Act |
| Frederick Douglass | A runaway slave who was most famous for his autobiography "The Narrative of Frederick Douglass" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Famous abolitionist, most known for her antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Robert E. Lee | Famous general for the South during the Civil War |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president who was from the South, Vice president for Abe Lincoln and didn't support black equality |
| Sitting Bull | Famous Native American that stood up against Americans, chief of the Sioux, forced to settle on a reservation after the battle of Little Big Horn |
| George Custer | Served in the Civil War and became a general, killed at battle of Little Big Horn |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Very successful rich business man that helped build modern America by building and buying steam ships |
| John Rockefeller | Very successful rich business man that helped build modern America by owning and working with every mode of transportation |
| Andrew Carnegie | Very successful rich business man that helped build modern America by producing steel and owning steel factories |
| Sacagawea | Traveled with Lewis and Clark on the Corps of Discovery Expedition |
| James K. Polk | 11th president of the US and helped America extend across the continent for the first time, led the Mexican American War and secured the Oregon Territory |
| Harper's Ferry | Harper's Ferry Raid which was led by John Brown in West Virginia on October 16, 1859 |
| Fort Sumter | The location of where the first shots were fired during the beginning of the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | Pennsylvania, where one of the major battles was fought during the Civil War, and where Abe Lincoln gave a speech to get the Union's morale back |
| Appomattox Courthouse | General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 bringing the Civil War to an end |
| Ford's Theatre | Abe Lincoln is assassinated here on April 15, 1865 while watching a play called "Our American Cousin" |
| Populist Party | A political party organized in 1892 to represent the common folk- especially farmers, they were against railroads, bankers, corporations, and more |
| Civil War | One of the biggest and bloodiest wars in American history that was on April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865 that was made to establish independence between the North or the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Signed by Abraham Lincoln that freed all of the slaves in Southern states |
| Gilded Age | A superficial period of intense economic growth |
| Civil War Amendments | 13- Abolished slavery 14- Granted citizenship to all African American slaves 15- Gave black men the right to vote |
| Reconstruction | The time period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into the Union |
| Gettysburg Address | Speech given by Abe Lincoln that was about 2 mins with the purpose of getting the Union's morale back after 2 loses in the Civil War |
| Louisiana Purchase | A land purchase between the US and the French in 1803 of 828,000 square miles called the Louisiana Territory , made up 17 states and was 15 million dollars and bought by Thomas Jefferson |
| Indian Removal Acts | Andrew Jackson as president forces Indian tribes to move West: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek |
| Mexican-American War | 1846 Mexico went to war with the US and the US won after both countries signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and we earned the states of Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and Utah |
| Homestead Act | Andrew Carnegie's steel workers are going on strike because of unfair working conditions while helper Henry Frick is in charge for Carnegie, 9 workers are killed in result |
| Jamestown | America's first English colony, located in Virginia that sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world |
| Plymouth | located in Pennsylvania, Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower and the first colonial settlement took place |
| Lexington and Concord | First Revolutionary Battle when British troops were sent to to confiscate colonial weapons, but a surprise military attack gains control and gets the Union ready for the next upcoming war |
| Erie Canal | after more than 2 years of digging, the 425 mile canal was opened on October 26, 1825 by Governor Clinton |
| The Alamo | Santa Anna's army showed up at Texas and took the citizens by surprise, the defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The Union and Central Pacific railroads joined their rails here and forged the destiny of a nation |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | these 2 locations served as immigration stations during the peak of immigration in the 1800s |
| Declaration of Independence | our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and freedom that was signed by Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1776 |
| Revolutionary War | Fought from 1775-1783 and was also known as the American War of Independence, fought between Great Britain's 13 colonies and our country |
| Articles of Confederation | AKA a dog with no teeth, attempt at making the constitution but failed |
| Great Compromise | Tried to figure out how each state could be represented in Congress and came to a conclusion of each state having 2 representatives in Congress |
| Passing of the Constitution | it was passed on September 17, 1787 and was adopted by the convention of states |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | they were added to the constitution as the first ten amendments on December 15, 1791 |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine would separate from Massachusetts and become a free state, Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state, and remaining 36-30 parallel would be closed off to slavery |
| California Gold Rush | began on January 24, 1848 when gold was founded by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, California, this brought 300,000 people to California for the gold |
| Industrial Revolution | transition from man made products to factories producing our goods starting in 1790 |
| Underground Railroad | a secret hide away place for run away slaves to help them gain shelter, food, water, etc. One leader was Harriet Tubman |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Lead by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this convention pushed the issue of gaining women's rights, and was held July 19-20, 1848 |
| Compromise of 1850 | California tried to enter as a free state, Henry Clay let California enter as a free state, remainder of Mexico would determine slave states by "popular sovereignty" , Fugitive Slave Act, and you could have slaves but weren't allowed to trade them |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Overrode the MO compromise, allowed slavery to spread by popular sovereignty, violent events happened between pro and anti slavery groups, and leads to Bleeding Kansas |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Dred Scott (slave) was moved with his owner to a free state, he went to court to object his owner from forcing him to work because they were in a free state, in a ruling of 7-2 Dred Scott won this case |
| Fugitive Slave Act | If slaves tried to run away to the North they were forced to be returned to the South and allowed local governments to seize and return escaped slaves back to the South |
| Bleeding Kansas | series of violent political fights involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" that took place in Kansas territory and some surrounding states |
| Civil War Draft Riots | violent disturbances in New York that were working class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | this was a system of railroads that allowed continents to use them for trade, travel, and more |
| Indian Wars | multiple conflicts between Native Americans and Americans when we were trying to get them to assimilate to our country's culture. Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | a landmark United States supreme court decision upholding the constitutionally of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the document of "separate but equal" |
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