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Flashcards by Courtney Musser, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Courtney Musser
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | Something added to the Constitution |
| Assimilate | Open to new things and to understand |
| Bias | Likes or dislikes a certain thing |
| Bicameral | Passed on two legislative chambers |
| Blockade | To seal off an important use of entering or exiting |
| Boomtown | Rapid growth in a town |
| Capitalism | Country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners |
| Captain of Industry | A great business leader |
| Checks and Balances | Political power is not in the hands of one person |
| Congress | National legislative body of a country |
| Due Process of Law | Fair treatment through the judicial system |
| Economics | The transfer of money or wealth |
| Emancipated | Liberated |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote to |
| Enumerated | To mention one by one |
| Federalism | The system of the government |
| Forty-niners | Prospecters in the California Gold Rush |
| Free Enterprise | Private businesses in competition |
| Habeas Corpus | A person under arrest shall be brought into court |
| Industry | Economic activity dealing with raw material |
| Judicial | Appropriate to a court or judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret organization in the southern states of the U.S. |
| Manifest Destiny | Expansion of the United States of America |
| Martyr | To kill someone because of their beliefs |
| Monopoly | Control of trade |
| Nomadic | Moving around a lot |
| Override | To use someone's authority to reject |
| Popular Sovereignty | Created by and sustained by the people |
| Ratify | Sign to make something official |
| Radical | Complete political or social reform |
| Republicanism | Governing a state as a republic |
| Robber Baron | American people who were rich, selfish, and greedy |
| Rural | The countryside |
| Separation of Powers | Separating the legislative, executive and judicial powers |
| Social Darwinism | A theory of natural selection in humans |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in elections |
| Supreme Court | Highest judicial court |
| Tariff | a tax that is paid for imports or exports |
| Taxation Without Representation | Not allowed to choose representatives |
| Trade Union | Another term for labor union |
| Urban | A city of town |
| Veto | A reject made by law |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was the draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was the first Secretary of State,the second Vice President, and was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson's leadership in the war between the United States and Britain earned his fame for being a military hero. |
| Sacagawea | Sacagawea accompanied the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery in 1805-06 |
| James Polk | James Polk served as the 11th U.S. president from 1845 to 1849. During his time, America grew by more than one-third |
| Frederick Douglass | Born a slave, Frederick Douglass escaped at the age of 20. He then became an antislavery activist that was known world wide. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet was an American abolitionist and novelist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| John Brown | John Brown was an abolitionist who believed in the violent over throw of slavery. John and his sons led attacks on pro-slavery citizens. |
| Robert E. Lee | Lee served as a military General in the U.S. Army. He became legendary with his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson was the 17th president, after Lincoln's assassination. He was also the first president to be impeached. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, and soon became a leading figure in the abolitionist and Women's Voting Rights movement. |
| Sitting Bull | Sitting Bull was the Native American chief of the Sioux tribes in their struggle for survival. |
| George Custer | George Custer was a U.S. Cavalry Officer who led 200 or more of his men to their deaths while in battle. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt used railroads to become rich and famous. |
| John Rockefeller | John Rockefeller became one of the worlds wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 1800's. |
| Jamestown | Jamestown was known for growing tobacco and John Rolfe marrying Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquian chief. |
| Plymouth | Plymouth was the first permanent settlement of Europeans. |
| Lexington and Concord | This kicked off the American Revolutionary War(1775-83). |
| Erie Canal | The Erie Canal was proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825. It also links Lake Erie and the Hudson River together. |
| The Alamo | This is a group of volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near present day city of San Antonio. |
| Harper's Ferry | Harper's Ferry was a target of assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. |
| Fort Sumter | Fort Sumter is most famous for being the place of the first shots of the American Civil War. |
| Gettysburg | Gettysburg was fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863. It is considered the most important engagement of the Civil War. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops to General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. |
| Ford's Theater | On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot president Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | On May 10, 1869, Promontory Summit was the site of a huge celebration, the reason was simple, the trans-continental railroad was finally finished. |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Ellis Island opened in 1892 as a federal immigration station, a purpose it served for 60 years, it closed in 1854. Angel Island is where many Chinese immigrants were forced to prove they had a husband or father who was a U.S. citizen. |
| Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence is the most important of all American historical documents. It is a partisan document, a justification of the American Revolution. |
| Revolutionary War | Americans faced almost impossible obstacles, there wasn't even a Continental Army when the guns were fired at Lexington and Concord. There was no method of training, supplying or paying an army. |
| Articles of Confederation | The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the U.S. Under these articles, the states remained sovereign and independent. This was all before it was ratified on March 1, 1781. |
| Great Compromise | The Great Compromise was also known as the Conneticut Compromise. It was the most important compromise during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787. |
| Passing of the Constitution | The U.S. Constitution established America's national government and fundamental laws. This was signed on September 17, 1787 by delegates in Philadelphia. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights protect the citizens, which is crucial. The Bill of Rights officially became part of the Constitution in December of 1791. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson Purchased land in 1803. He bought this 828,000 square miles of wilderness from France for $15,000,000. |
| Missouri Compromise | To balance the power in congress between slave states and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. |
| Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) | Signed by President Andrew Jackson, the Indian Removal Act was passed by congress in 1830, which mandated the removal of Indians. |
| Mexican-American War | The Mexican-American War was from 1846 to 1848. This war marked the first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil. |
| California Gold Rush | The discovery of gold in Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, one of the most significant events to shape American history. |
| Homestead Act | The Homestead Act was one of the most remarkable events in the westward expansion of the United States. By giving 160 acres of free land to anyone who wanted land. |
| Industrial Revolution | Industrialization marked a point in our history where America started to create powered, special-purposed machinery, mass production, and factories. |
| Underground Railroad | This is the most important part in U.S. history because it was life changing for everyone. Slaves tried or did escape from slavery to visit the Underground Railroad, and live with freedom. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were holding a women's rights convention at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls N.Y., almost 200 women attended. These women wanted to have the same rights as men. |
| Compromise of 1850 | The war between Mexico and America was resolved in the Compromise of 1850. Some of the things it consisted of laws were admitting California as a free state and creating the Utah and New Mexico territories, with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty for slavery. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, were not American citizens and could not sue in court. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | The Fugitive Slave Act was a pair of federal laws that stated the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the U.S. could be returned to their owner. |
| Bleeding Kansas | This was a period of violence during the settling if the Kansas territory. |
| Civil War | The Civil War was the most deadly event in the United States history. There were nearly 10,500 battles in the American Civil War. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | This freed slaves from anyone who "owned" them. Some people did not tell the slaves that they were free until months or even years later. |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Mrn between ages of 20 and 45 had to sign up for the war, people started to riot because of this. For example: Rich citizens could buy their way out of the war, so the people on riot would kill them. |
| Gettysburg Address | The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln at a cemetery for union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. This speech encouraged people to move on and face their fears. |
| Reconstruction | The Reconstruction era was the rebuilding the United States of America. |
| Civil War Amendments (13th/14th/15th) | The 13th amendments set the slaves free, the 14th gave them citizenship, and the 15th gave male African Americans the right to vote. |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | This gave transportation all across the U.S.A. |
| Indian Wars | These were separated wars. |
| Gilded Age | The rise of industrial capitalism. |
| Populist Party | Made up of mainly average people. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Plessy was mostly white, so he sat in a white person car on a train, so he got a penalty for being one-eighth colored. |
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