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Flashcards by squinkies44, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A formal or official change made to the law |
| Assimilate | Adapting or changing to a different culture |
| Bias | Favoring one thing person or product over the other |
| Bicameral | Two branches of the Legislative |
| Blockade | Shipment can't go in or out of the port for supplies |
| Boomtown | A town that had a large economical boom and where everyone came to |
| Capitalism | every business competes against each other for money |
| Captain of Industry | A wealthy business owner that helps out with charities and is a person that everyone looks up to |
| Checks and Balances | The three branches of the United States government has a system where one branch will check on the other branch |
| Congress | Made of the Senate and the House of Representatives |
| Due Process of Law | Fair trials to each person in court |
| Economic | The wealth, use of income, and distribution of the product |
| Emancipated | To be freed from bondage |
| Enfranchise | Given the right to vote |
| Enumerated | A list of a number of things one by one |
| Federalism | One government can't have too much power, to the governments split the powers equaly |
| Fortey-niners | In 1849, people came to California for gold in the California Gold Rush |
| Free Enterprise | The freedom to make a private shop and to compete with other companies for money |
| Habeas Corpus | This is part of the 6th amendment in the bill of rights. Given the right to a fair and speedy trial |
| Industry | A large scale of business activity or a type of productive manufacture or trade |
| Judicial | courts of law or judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | During the Reconstruction era, the KKK is a group of southerners who believed that the white race was the supreme race |
| Manifest Destiny | To gain more land and to put more people across it |
| Martyr | a person who dies because of their religious beliefs |
| Monopoly | A control that manipulates prices |
| Nomadic | Going from place to place with not a certain place they live |
| Override | over ruling a decision |
| Popular Sovereignty | Citizens give the government power and control |
| Ratify | approve |
| Radical | exreme |
| Republican | A political party from the north of the United States then switched to the south |
| Robber Baron | A harsh, cruel, wealthy boss. The boss underpays this employees and treats them with little respect |
| Rural | An environment were there is open space and big farms+ |
| Separation of Powers | The three branches of government each have their own responsibilities |
| Social Darwinism | A theory that the laws of evolution can be from nature and society |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in public elections |
| Supreme Court | The highest Judicial court in the country or state |
| Tariff | a tax on imported goods or services |
| Taxation Without Representation | A slogan of the Revolutionary war that the colonists did not like being taxed on for everything |
| Trade Union | A different group of employees that replace the ones that rebelled against the company |
| Urban | An environment where buildings are close together. A city |
| Veto | To not pass to a law |
| Thomas Jefferson | One of the Founding Fathers of the USA, wrote the Constitution |
| Andrew Jackson | The first common man president and is famous for driving the Native Americans from their land (The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal Act) |
| Sacajawea | A Native American that assisted Lewis and Clark on the Corps of Discovery |
| James Polk | Mr. Manifest Destiny was his nickname because Polk |
| Frederick Douglass | A former slave that wrote a book about his life called The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John Brown | A Free Stater that was famous for raiding and Harper's Ferry |
| Robert E. Lee | Southern Confederate General of the Confederate Army |
| Andrew Johnson | Took place of Abraham Lincoln and was extremely close of being the first president to be impeached |
| Susan B. Anthony | A women's suffragist that led the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Sitting Bull | Fought Custer in order to help with saving the Indians but got shot in the head and chest |
| George Custer | Famous in the Indian Wars. Fought off the Indians |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Made his wealth with railroads and shipping |
| John Rockefeller | Dominated in the production of oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | Made the biggest and strongest steel for buildings and has a school program named after him |
| Jamestown, VA | The first settlement of the United States |
| Plymouth, Mass | The second settlement of the United States |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle in the Revolutionary War |
| Erie Canal | A man made water way from New York to Chicago |
| The Alamo | A fight between Santa Anna and the US with Davy Crockett |
| Harper's Ferry | A raid led by John Brown to take down a weaponry place and to help the slaves to fight with John Brown |
| Fort Sumter | First battle (and thought to be the last) of the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | Longest battle in American history |
| Appomattox Courthouse | The place where the South surrendered to the North which ended the Civil War |
| Ford's Theater | The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John W. Booth |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The end of the Transcontinental Railroad |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | These two island were for immigrants coming from Asia or Europe into America |
| Declaration of Independence | This document proves that the US has been freed from Great Brtitain |
| Revolutionary War | A war fought between Great Britain and America for Americas independence |
| Articles of Confederation | The failed document before the Constitution |
| Great Compromise | The Constitution said that the smaller states and the bigger states would have two separate houses |
| Passing of the Constitution | The US needed to set some rules to the new country. The Founding Fathers made this document to prove it |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | Other people wanted to have their own list of rights so they added another document with the Constitution |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson bought the land from Napoleon and started the Corps of Discovery with Lewis and Clark |
| Missouri Compromise | The 36,30 parallel line from above the line is a free state and below is a slave state |
| Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) | Andrew Jackson drove the 5 main Indian tribes away from the home lands and put them on a reservation in Oklahoma |
| Mexican-American War | A war thst had to do with Texas wanting to be independent from Mexico and the Alamo |
| California Gold Rush | When gold was found in CA in 1848, tons of people from the east flocked to CA and was called... |
| Homestead Act | Signed by President Lincoln so people from the east can move west and whoever gets there first will get the land |
| Industrial Revolution | A time where inventions were being made at the time of the Civil War |
| Underground Railroad | A system that runaway slaves used to find their way to freedom |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The biggest women rights convention that was in New York |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay compromised that the Fugitive Slave Act would be amended when the Washington DC port was closed |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Took away the Missouri Compromise and the territory was open to people and popular sovereignty |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | A slave that tested his rights in court but was ruled against and that blacks have no rights |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Acts that made slave catching even more brutal |
| Bleeding Kansas | The nickname for Kansas when Kansas was being chosen as a free or slave state |
| Civil War | A war against the Union and the Confederates over slavery being abolished or being kept |
| Emancipation Proclamation | This claimed that slaves in the south can be freed |
| Civil War Draft Riots | In New York, people got into mobs and rioted about the unfair Union conscription |
| Gettysburg Address | The Address was made by President Lincoln at the longest battle ever in American history |
| Reconstruction | The era after the Civil War that tried to reconstruct America |
| Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) | Three amendments were made after the Civil War |
| Completion of Trans-Continental Railroad | The railroad was completed and stretched across the United States |
| Indian Wars | Moving to the west many Indian tribes were encountered. Wars were fought over land between the Union Army and the Indian tribes |
| Gilded Age | An age of economical boom of wealthy people and lots of job working immigrants |
| Populist Party | Created in Kansas because the wealthy people of the US were taking up the farmers crops and land |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | A decision was made that the white and colored races separate but equal |
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