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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change or addition added to a document |
| Assimilate | to change to fit into a new or different group |
| Bias | To believe ones side without reasoning |
| Bicameral | 2 houses in government |
| Blockade | blocking off an area to prevent goods or people from entering |
| Boomtown | a town with rapid growth |
| Capitalism | an economic system in which trade and business is controlled by a private owner for more profit |
| Captain of industry | business person who contributes positively to the country |
| Checks and balances | Government is split into three different fractions so all of the power and decision making isn't in the hands of one person |
| Congress | National legislative body of a country |
| Due process of law | Fair jury trial |
| Economics | the division of knowledge having to do with production, use and transfer |
| emancipated | freed from work or groups |
| enfranchise | given the right to vote |
| Federalism | the idea of a federal organization of self governing |
| forty-niners | someone who participated in the California gold rush |
| Free enterprise | an economic system where private business owners are competitive and free of state control |
| habeas corpus | allowing a person to be brought before a judge |
| industry | business that has to do with the processing of raw materials, and goods made in a factory |
| Judicial | a branch of government that explains laws |
| kkk | a secret organization that after the civil war that was against the freedom of blacks |
| manifest destiny | a belief that it was destiny for the u.s. to expand its territory |
| martyr | killed because of beliefs |
| Monopoly | control over multiple businesses |
| Nomadic | someone who has no permanent home and moves from place to place |
| override | to decide against a suggestion |
| popular sovereignty | people are the source of the governments power |
| Ratify | to confirm and make something officially valid |
| Radical | someone who has very extreme views from the normal |
| republican | one of two political parties being very conservative and independent (hold popular sovereignty) |
| enumerated | not listed |
| robber baron | someone who has great fortune during the 19th century through heartless decisions |
| Rural | describing the countryside rather the the city |
| Separation of powers | giving different powers to different branches of government so all the choices arent given to one person to one person to decide |
| Social Darwinism | the smartest, fitest and ones with the best qualities will live the longest |
| Suffrage | the right to vote in a political election |
| Supreme Court | the highest court system in a state |
| Tariff | a tax to be paid on a certain class of imports or exports |
| Taxation without representation | colonists were not allowed to choose representative and pass laws where they taxed parliament. |
| Trade union | formed to protect and further the rights of a citizen |
| Urban | relating to a city or town with many people |
| veto | to reject a proposal made |
| Thomas Jefferson | Founding father third president wrote some of the declaration of independence first secretary of state responsible for Louisiana purchase |
| Andrew Jackson | 17th president common man cause of the trail of tears tariffs battle of New Orleans |
| Sacagawea | interpreter also know as bird women had 2 kids helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition saved important documents that went overboard |
| James Polk | 11th president expanded borders of U.S. borders to the pacific ocean added 3 states to the union |
| Frederick Douglass | wrote a autobiography escaped slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle toms cabin abolitionist sold over 300,000 copies antislavery book |
| John brown | abolitionist terrorist to the south wanted to capture federal arsenal from the south at Harper ferry-later known as the Harper's Ferry raid |
| Robert E. Lee | leader of the confederate army in Virginia surrendered in 1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president vice president when lincoln was assassinated known as the veto president |
| Susan B. Anthony | women's rights advocates lead the first convention |
| Sitting Bull | lead his people as a tribal chief fought instead of ran fought off settlers Fort larmie treaty |
| george custer | us army officer first bull run cavalry commander custers last stand(his men were killed) |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | businessman built his wealth in railroads and shipping |
| John Rockefeller | He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. |
| Andrew Carnegie | expanded the steel industry used his wealth to build local libraries men killed for protest long working hours and low pay |
| Jamestown | boomtown tobacco crops good soil |
| plymouth | mayflower arrived here pilgrims settled here English colony |
| Lexington and concord | start of the revolutionary war April 19, 1775 paul revere sounded the alarm |
| erie canal | first major form of transportation man made 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River |
| alamo | battle in which everyone dies mexican invaders overpowered texas out numbered |
| harpers ferry | John brown led a raid here to free slaves 21 men total John Brown was defeated |
| Fort sumter | Confederate 80 soldiers union 500 soldiers first shots were fired no one killed |
| Gettysburg | the battle of gettysburg 51,112 deaths union victory gettysburg address was given here |
| appomattox court house | union victory 700 deaths lee surrenders |
| Ford's theater | where abraham lincoln was assinated |
| promontory point, utah | the Union and central pacific railroads joined their rails at promontory summit, utah first transcontinental railroad. |
| ellis island and angel island | federal immigration station Millions of newly arrived immigrants passed through the station |
| Declaration of Independence | all men are created equal all men have some rights given to them by God life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 1776 |
| revolutionary war | war of independence 1775–1783 13 colonies |
| articles of confederation | first written constitution of the United States ratified on March 1, 1781. |
| great comprimise | the idea of proportional representation in the House of Representatives and equal representation of the states in the Senate. |
| passing of the constitution | add text |
| adding the bill of rights | 1791 added 10 new rights did not agree to the constitution unless they made the bill of rights giving rights the individual people |
| Louisiana purchase | gained 828,000 square miles doubled size added 15 new states When France was defeated by the Haitians napoleon, France's ruler at the time thought that the Louisiana Territory no longer seemed like such a prize. Thomas Jefferson hoping to get some land from France was surprised when he was offered thousands of square miles at such a low cost |
| Missouri Comprimise | Henry Clay allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. drew an imaginary line at 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude |
| indian removal act | signed by President Andrew Jackson states were greedy about getting land that belonged to the Indian tribes moved indians to new land and a lot of them died along the way |
| Mexican American war | started after Texas became a state because they were having trouble deciding where the Mexican – American border should be led up to another victory for the United States signed The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stating that Mexico had to give up their territory of California and New Mexico for 15 million Dollars |
| California Gold Rush | gold discovered in california very few people made money huge scramble for mineral wealth miss treatment of asians transformed the landscape |
| Homestead act | opened up land in the U.S. gave any American, including freed slaves the opportunity to claim federal land 15,000 homestead claims had been established |
| industrial revolution | time period following the civil war in which congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the union. |
| underground railroad | secret routes leading to safe houses for slaves harriet tubman was the leader of this |
| seneca falls convention | lead by elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls first women's rights convention |
| Compromise of 1850 | admitted California as a free state and separately organized the territories of Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery. abolished the slave trade |
| Kansas-nebraska act | created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opened up new land could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their new state |
| dred scott vs sanford | Claimed that he was free because he moved to Illinois and Minnesota sued slave owner for abuse federal court ruled that dred scott was a citizen supreme court did not |
| Fugitive slave act | allowed the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States |
| bleeding Kansas | the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision whether the land would be slave or non slave |
| Civil war | The Civil War was fought between the Northern states and the Southern states from 1861-1865 |
| Emancipation proclamation | all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are free |
| Draft riots | congress passed a law making all men between 20 -45 able to fight in the war when they enforced it people were made and they was a big fight. |
| Gettysburg address | a pep talk given to the union soldiers during the middle of the war not to give up. This speech was given by abe lincoln. |
| Reconstruction | the time period following the civil war in which congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring southern states back to the union |
| 13th 14th 15th | 13th abolishes slavery 14th african american citizenship 15th allowed african americans to vote |
| Completion of transcontinental railroad | finished in 1869 meet in utah mainly chinese workers built it |
| indian wars | conflicts between American settlers or the United States government and the native peoples of North America in 1890 |
| Gilded age | era of rapid economic growth attracted millions of immigrants helped workers |
| populist party | rich people and rich corporations |
| plessy vs ferguson | laws allowing o racial segregation in public such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. |
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