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Flashcards by Rachel Kurovski, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachel Kurovski
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | a small change to a law or document |
| Assimilate | to understand completely |
| Bias | an opinion against or for someone or something that is unfair |
| Bicameral | to have two rooms or branches |
| Blockade | to cut of completely |
| Boomtown | having a huge growth because of good benifit |
| Capitalism | a system where the economy is controlled by big money makers and buisness men and not the state |
| Captains of Industry | leaders who transform America's economy with their buisness skills, helps others |
| Checks and Balances | when one part of the government keeps the others in check so they don't become to powerful |
| Congress | the two houses in the legislative branch, they are the House of Representatives and the Senate |
| Due Process of Law | fair treatment in a court case, no biases |
| Economics | the making, distribution, and consumption of goods and services |
| Emancipate | to be free from bondage, slavery |
| Enfranchise | to be given the right to vote |
| Enumerated | to be listed |
| Federalism | where different types of the government have certain power |
| Forty-niners | someone who went to California in 1849 for the gold rush |
| Free Enterprise | an economy that can hold itself together with free business compition |
| Habeas Corpus | the right to see a judge in court for a crime |
| Industry | business activities, trade or making things |
| Judicial | the judgment in courts |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret organization that hurt blacks, and whites that stood up to them |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that americans had the right to explore the land it was their god given right |
| Martyr | someone who dies for a religious cause |
| Monopoly | where one business is the only business selling something, forcing the buyer to be their only option |
| Nomadic | where an indian tribe doesn't stay in one place |
| Override | where congress over comes the president's veto with a 2/3rds vote |
| Popular Sovereignty | the people give the government the power |
| Ratify | to agree to something |
| Radical | Extreme |
| Republicanism | where the people vote for their representative |
| Robber Baron | a big business man who is greedy and doesn't think about the buyer |
| Rural | countryside |
| Separation of Powers | were one part of the government doesn't have to much power |
| Social Darwinism | where the survival of the fittest comes into play |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest court system in the country |
| Tariff | a tax or duty of the people |
| Taxation without Representation | colonist who were taxed without having a say in court |
| Trade Union | were workers come together for better working conditions |
| Urban | city |
| Veto | where the president says no to a bill |
| Thomas Jefferson | he was America's 3rd president and he wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Andrew Jackson | he was the 7th president and supported slavery |
| Sacagawea | a guide and translator on the Lewis and Clark expedition |
| James K. Polk | was known as 'Mr. Manifest Destiny' because he got the most land for america |
| Frederick Douglass | an escaped slave who was a good speaker |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote a book on slavery called "Uncle Toms Cabin" |
| John Brown | a white abolitionist who believed that fighting back with weapons was to only option |
| Robert E. Lee | the best general in america during the civil war |
| Andrew Johnson | was the 17th president and was lincoln's vice president, he supported slavery |
| Susan B. Anthony | an abolitionist who was also a suffragist |
| Sitting Bull | an indian who resisted the americans |
| George Custer | he was an army officer and a calvary commander in the civil war |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | built railroads and shipped items |
| John Rockefeller | he created Standard Oil and created monopoly |
| Andrew Carnegie | made his money off steel |
| Jamestown | the first town to be built in america and made money on tobacco |
| Plymouth | 2nd english settlement that came for religious freedom |
| Lexington and Concord | the first armed conflict between Great Britain and America, start of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | a canal that goes from New York to the Great Lakes |
| The Alamo | when mexican forces took siege to San Antonio, Texas |
| Harper's Ferry | John Brown lead a raid on it to help slaves fight back, failed raid |
| Fort Sumter | the first battle of the civil war |
| Gettysburg | the bloodiest battle in the civil war |
| Appomattox Courthouse | when Lee surrendered and the final resistance of the South |
| Ford's Theater | where Lincoln was assassinated by John Booth |
| Promontory Point, Utah | where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Ellis Island- were european immigrants came to America Angel Island- were asian immigrants came to America |
| Declaration of Independence | said that we were no longer a part of Great Britain |
| Revolutionary War | war fought with Britain to get our freedom |
| Articles of Confederation | weak laws that the government couldn't put into force |
| Great Compromise | said that smaller states would have a say in the government |
| Passing of the Constitution | only nine states had to agree to it and at least nine did |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | a 2nd constitutional convention was held to clear up citizens rights |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson bought it from France who had war debts |
| Missouri Compromise | anything below the 36,30 line would be a slave state and anything above would be a free state |
| Indian Removal Acts | forced indians to move to reservations for room for settlement |
| Mexican-American War | where mexico tried to invade america |
| California Gold Rush | when gold was found in California and people rushed to find the gold |
| Homestead Act | where the rest of the land in Utah were for free, from the government |
| Industrial Revolution | where machines kept getting better and changed america into a industrial country |
| Underground Railroad | a system of people who helped slaves escape slavery |
| Seneca Falls Convention | where women came together to help women's rights |
| Compromise of 1850 | where Texas lost New Mexico, california was a free state, new mexico and Arizona can say yes or no to slavery, and D.C. was banned from having slave trade |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | kansas could say yes or no to slavery if Nebraska became a slave state |
| Dred Scott vs. Stanford | where Dred Scott tried to sue for his freedom |
| Fugitive Slave Act | where fugitive slaves were allowed to be caught anywhere |
| Bleeding Kansas | where jay hawks and boarder ruffians fought for wether Kansas should be slave state or not |
| Civil War | where the south succeeded the north and we fought to stay one country |
| Emancipation Proclamation | where all slaves in areas of rebellion were considered free |
| Civil War draft riots | where riots were thrown against wealthy whites and blacks because they had to fight |
| Gettysburg Address | lincoln gave a speech to raise the spirits of the North |
| Reconstruction | when we were trying to rebuild our country |
| Civil Rights Amendments | gave black males their full citizenship |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | where the government built a railroad across america and made it easier for people to travel |
| Indian Wars | where indians were fighting back for being put on reservations |
| Gilded Age | were society and the government are influenced in america greatly |
| Populist Party | where the people banned together to get more say in the government |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | where the supreme court decided blacks were separate but equal |
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