Questão | Responda |
Amendment | A change that has been made or added to the Constitution |
Assimilate | To take in or adsorb into a community or ethnicity. |
Bias | To be or show favor to one group over another. |
Bicameral | Having multiple branches of a group. |
Blockade | Closing off a path so that a person or group of people may not pass. |
Boomtown | A town or city that is going through extreme economic growth. |
Capitalism | A system of economy that is based on winners and losers in business. |
Captain of Industry | A rich man who is praised for how good he is and how chartable he is. |
Checks and Balances | A system of government that ensures that no branch will have the ability to overpower the other two. |
Congress | A branch of government that makes decisions and sends bills to the president to either be approved or vetoed. |
Due Process of Law | The equal treatment of prisoners and those arrested as stated by the Bill of Rights. |
Economics | A system of money regulation in the country. |
Emancipated | To be freed from a power or oppression. |
Enfranchise | To be granted the power to vote. |
Enumerated | To mention two groups as separate. |
Federalism | A part of government that regulates the entire nation. |
Forty-Niners | The prospectors that went to California to look for gold. |
Free Enterprise | The system of economics that holds a persons money. |
Habeas Corpus | The right to see a court |
Industry | The area a Corporation goes to make specific goods. |
Judicial | The branch of government that is in charge of the court. |
Ku Klux Klan | A organization of white supremeists formed post Civil War |
Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was America's fate to colonize coast to coast |
Martyr | Someone who died for what they believed in. |
Monopoly | The control of the distribution of every good of a certain type |
Nomadic | A group of people or animals that move to hunt and gather their food source |
Override | To overthrow a decision with your power or multiple people's power |
Popular Sovereignty | The ability for the people to choose their representatives |
Ratify | To make true |
Radical | Someone who wants something they want done now |
Republicanism | Having decisions be made by someone who represents you. |
Robber Baron | Someone who has made their money in cruel ways and exploit anything if it makes them money |
Rural | An area that hasn't been populated by skyscrapers and large corporations |
Separation of Powers | Keeping all of the the abilities of the Federal and State governments apart form each other |
Social Darwinism | The belief that only the most fit will survive in a species |
Sufferage | The ability to vote |
Supreme Court | The highest court in the land |
Tariff | A paper showing the duties of government |
Taxation Without Representation | The act of taxing a group of people without using the taxes to better their community |
Trade Union | An agreement between businesses to control the market by raising the prices of all their rivaling products |
Urban | A area of the city that holds a community of people |
Veto | To block a bill in the process of becoming a law |
Thomas Jefferson | The third president and the inventor of the light bulb |
Andrew Jackson | The man responsible for the Trail of Tears |
Sacagawea | The woman who helped Lewis & Clark on their expadition |
James Polk | The man who added most of the land to America in Manifest Destiny |
Fredrick Douglass | Made an abolitionist newspaper known as the North Star |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's cabin which told what slavery was really like |
John Brown | Preformed the Harpers Fairy Raid against the Southern States and was eventually killed for this |
Robert E. Lee | Was a Confederate general who when he was defeated led to the CSA's downfall |
Andrew Johnson | Was the President who rose to power after the death of Abraham Lincoln |
Susan B. Anthony | Became very famous for fighting for woman's suffrage |
Sitting Bull | Was a tribe leader who was killed on suspicion of being a Ghost Dancer |
George Custer | A US general who was killed by the Sioux tribe |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the richest men who made his money off of railroads during the gilded age |
John Rockefeller | The richest man ever who made his money off of oil |
Andrew Carneagie | On of the richest men who made his money off of mass producing steel |
Jamestown | The first settlement in America was originally made to farm tobacco |
Plymouth | A settlement created to provide religious freedom to former citizens of England |
Lexington and Concord | The first battle fought during the Revolutionary War |
Erie Canal | A canal dug to connect Lake Ontario to the Hudson River for New York |
The Alamo | A famous battle fought when Texas was trying to escape and leave Mexico |
Harper's Ferry | The location that John Brown carried out his raid to try and cripple the South |
Fort Sumter | A Union fort that was in southern states when they seceded so many disputes were had |
Gettysburg | The bloodiest battle fought during the civil war, took place when two generals met on a random ecounter |
Appomattox Courthouse | The location in which the Confederate army had to surrender to the Union soldiers |
Ford's Theatre | The theatre in which Lincoln was assassinated |
Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed |
Ellis Island and Angle Island | The two islands where immigrants would come to become citizens of america Ellis for Europeans, Angle for Asians |
The Declaration of Independence | The letter sent to the King of Brittan stating us becoming our own country |
Revolutionary War | The war fought over America when we were trying to leave Brittian |
Articles of Confederation | The first draft of the Constitution which was scraped because it didn't give enough power to the government |
Great Comprimise | The statement that states will get equal representation no matter the size or population |
Passing of the Constitution | The decision to make this part of the country's laws and order |
Adding the Bill Of Rights | The additon list of the first ten amendments that allowed more freedoms to the citizens of the US |
Lousiana Purchase | land received from Napoleon which add lots of land to the country for a cheap price |
Missouri Comprimise | The allowence of missori to be a state proslavery as long as a anti-slavery state was added as well |
Indian Removal Act | The period when many Indian Tribes were forced to migrate to Kansas |
Mexican-American War | A war fought after Texas became a state which eventually allowed us to add more land to the country |
California Gold Rush | Happened when gold was discovered in California many people went to try and get rich but many failed |
Homestead Act | Stated that if people moved west they could receive free land if they claimed it first |
Industrial Revolution | The period in which America was converting from agriculture toward the age of steel |
Underground Railroad | A path that would help many slaves escape the binds of slavery to the North or even to Canada |
Seneca Falls Convention | A famous place that plays a big part in women's suffrage |
Compromise of 1850 | the allowance of some states to join as free states but then add more states as slave states |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | The ability for Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their standing on slavery |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | A court battle that eventually ruled that slaves had no rights even in anti-slavery states |
Fugitive Slave Act | Decreed that any black suspected of being a runaway slave can be caught and be put on trial for running away |
Bleeding Kansas | A period when Kansas was still undecided on it's status of slavery that was full of fights between Missouri Pro-Slavery and Northern Anti-Slavery people |
Civil War | The fight between the North and South on whether or not the Southern states may leave the union |
Emancipation Proclamation | The adress that decided that all slaves were free in areas of rebellion |
Civil War Draft Riots | Riots that happened because of people who weren't happy they were drafted |
Gettysburg Adress | A speech that Lincoln gave that inspired many Northerners to continue the fight |
Reconstruction | A period after the Civil War that was meant to help ease back in the Southern states but eventually failed due to corruption |
Civil War Ammendments | Three amendments that helped give equal rights to former slaves in southern states |
Completion of the Trans Continental Railroad | When the railroad that spanned america was finally completed |
Indian Wars | Battles fought between Indian Tribes and the army over land disputes |
Gilded Age | A period in history of large economical growth due to booming businesses, where the richest men came from |
Populist Party | Originated in Kansas mad to give people all the power |
Plessy v. Fergusion | A court case that regarded how segregation was different from "Separate but equal" |
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