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| Questão | Responda |
| Amendment | A small change in the Constitution |
| Assimilate | To take in an idea. To understand completely |
| Bias | More favorable towards one group or side. |
| Bicameral | Two branches or houses |
| Blockade | A barrier to keep something in or out |
| Boomtown | A fast growing city |
| Capitalism | A system used by the United States of America government |
| Captains of Industry | Leaders of Industry that have fair wages for their workers and are idolized in the industrial market. |
| Checks and Balances | When each branch of the government has limited and equal power over the other. |
| Congress | The Government |
| Due Process of Law | The right to have fair treatment and go through the judicial process. |
| Economics | The system of money, dealing all the money. |
| Emancipated | To be freed |
| Enfranchise | Giving the right to vote |
| Enumerated | Establish numbers. |
| Federalism | The powers divided between the National, State, and Local governments. |
| Forty-Niners | This is a name referring to the thousands of men who migrated to California in 1849 because of the discovery of gold there. |
| Free Enterprise | A system in where companies and businesses compete and are in control of themselves. |
| Habeas Corpus | This is the right to, after being under arrest, to be seen before the judge. |
| Industry | Economic process of manufacturing goods from raw materials. |
| Judicial | Appropriate to a court or judge. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of white supremacists who seek to strike fear into their enemies (blacks and black supporters) hearts and harass/kill them. |
| Manifest Destiny | The term for the attitude present during the 19th century period, where Americans thought they were destine to reach coast to coast on their land. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for what they believe in. |
| Monopoly | The complete control of supplies and trade in a system. |
| Nomadic | A wanderer who does not stay in the same place and moves often. |
| Override | To use authority to reject, cancel or overrule one's command. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The power of the Government is sustained by the people. |
| Ratify | To sign or give formal consent to. |
| Radical | To go further than the norm. To be more demanding. |
| Republicanism | Where the people elect who they want to be in power over them into political positions. |
| Robber Baron | Someone who monopolizes the system and pays their workers less, as well as unsafe working environments. Someone who is unfair and greedy with all the money. |
| Rural | The countryside and the farming culture. |
| Separation of Powers | Each of the three branches of the Government have their own powers in where they do not overlap the powers of the other branches. Equality of powers between the branches. |
| Social Darwinism | The different opinions of who are the stronger or weaker people. The preference of people among a certain group. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. |
| Supreme Court | Part of the Judicial Branch and is to interpret the laws. |
| Tariff | A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports/exports. |
| Taxation without Representation | The laws passed to tax the colonists were thought of as illegal according to the 1689 Bill of Rights, meaning they thought they were being stripped of their rights. |
| Trade Union | A group of workers go on strike or boycott a company in order to get better pay, safer working conditions or less work hours. |
| Urban | Relating to the characteristics of a city. |
| Veto | To deny or decline. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, second Vice President and purchased the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States, was responsible for the Trail of Tears and thought of the "common man". |
| Sacagawea | Captured by a Frenchman to be forcefully married and then invited by Lewis and Clark to be their interpreter. |
| James Polk | 14th President of the United States. Secured the Oregon Territory. Gained most land for the United States. |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped from slavery and wanted all slaves to be free (abolitionist). Created the North Star newspaper. |
| Harriet Beecher | American abolitionist and author. Famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin which depicted an African American's life under slavery. |
| John Brown | Led a raid with his sons on Harper Ferry's Arsenal. |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General who led southern forces against the Union during the American Civil War. |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President that took over after President Lincoln was assassinated. Favored the South more than the North. Veto'd any bill that favored blacks. |
| Susan B. Anthony | An abolitionist as well as a woman's rights activist. |
| Sitting Bull | Native American Chief of the Sioux tribes that united and had increased conflicts with U.S. authorities. |
| George Custer | U.S. Calvary Officer that led 200 of his men to their deaths at the battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Self-made multimillionaire that started out working in a shipyard. Then transferred to be successful in the railroad business. |
| John Rockerfeller | First monopoly to overcome America. John was a business man and a philanthropist. Made his money by dominating the oil market. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Gained his money by mass producing steel for the first time. Donated his money at death to good causes. |
| Jamestown | Americas first permanent English Colony |
| Plymouth | Another one of the earliest successful colonies of America. Housed the Pilgrims |
| Lexington and Concord | Where the first engagements of the American Revolutionary War occurred. |
| Erie Canal | Links Lake Erie to the Hudson River and at the time it was amazing. "Eighth Wonder of the World" |
| The Alamo | A 13-day siege where Mexican forces assaulted Alamo mission and killed all the Texans. |
| Harper's Ferry | An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt. |
| Fort Sumter | The cite where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. |
| Gettysburg | Largest battle of the American Civil War, also in America. Located in Pennsylvania. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Location in which the Confederates largest army surrendered. Led by Robert E. Lee. |
| Ford's Theater | The place where John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Transcontinental Railroad was finished |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | A place where immigrants where to come into America from. Ellis Island normally had European immigrants whereas Angel Island had more Asian immigrants. |
| Declaration of Independence | The document that free'd American from Britain. Signed by our Founding Fathers. |
| Revolutionary War | The war that the Americans started to kick the British of their land. |
| Articles of Confederation | The first Constitution of America, was a failure though. |
| Great Comprimise | This led to the creation of the House and the Senate because two voting groups where arguing over wether a state should have votes based on their population not their size and vice versa. |
| Passing the Constitution | The "Federal Convention" was created to vote to ratify it or not. The document was ratified obviously. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights was added to protect the basic rights of everyone that was a citizen of the U.S. from the Governments power. |
| Louisiana Purchase | This territory was purchased by Thomas Jefferson from the French for only $15 million dollars. This land was 827,000 square miles west of the Mississippi. |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri wanted to be entered as a slave state but that would offset the amount of free states and slave states. So, they entered Maine as a free state and drew and imaginary line across America to divide who would be entered as a free state or slave state. |
| Indian Removal Act | Signed off by Andrew Jackson. The Indians that occupied the territory the Americans wanted were stripped from their land and forced to move to not as luscious land so that the Americans could get what they wanted. |
| Mexican-American War | War between America and Mexico due to the annexation of Texas and wether it ended at Rio Grande or Nueces River. |
| California Gold Rush | A time period in which gold was found in California started a great race for gold in the West. |
| Homestead Act | A person could receive land from the Government (160 acres) and they were to cultivate it and make it better in order to live on it. |
| Industrial Revolution | Period of time where machines were making everything easier and more efficient so productions of goods and services were cheaper and quicker. |
| Underground Railroad | A path for escaped slaves to follow to get to safety in the North without getting caught. Led by Harriet Tubman. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first woman's right convention in America. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Slave laws were more strict and California was admitted as a free state. Slave trade was now legal in Washington, D.C. New land in Utah. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created the territories Kansas and Nebraska. Allowed settlers to decide wether they were a free state or a slave state. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court ruled that Americans with African descent were not American citizens and couldn't sue in court. |
| Fugitive Slave act | Made slave laws more strict. If a slave was found in a free state the person who found them, even if they didn't support slavery, were to return them to their masters. |
| Bleeding Kansas | The violent series of political confrontations between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people over wether Kansas should be free or slave. |
| Civil War | The War in which the North and the South clash due to slavery causes. |
| Emancipation Proclomation | This announced that all slaves were free in the United States. |
| Civil War Draft Riots | These were riots that started because men were being drafted into the Civil War. |
| Gettysburg Address | This was the speech President Abraham Lincoln gave after the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the most famous speeches ever given in American history. |
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War in which the South was in desperate need of help to reconstruct their economy and towns. |
| Civil War Amendments (13th/14th/15th) | These amendments were passed all to benefit African American slaves/ex-slaves. These included their freedom of slavery, the right to citizenship and the right to vote. |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | The completion of the railroad was at Promontory Point, Utah. It was a time and place of celebration for the workers. |
| Indian Wars | There were many wars between the U.S. and the Indians before the Indian force was killed off. The one that ended all of it was called Little Bighorn. |
| Gilded Age | The Gilded Age was a time of money and mass production. It looked as if America was gaining a lot of money but in reality only a few people were becoming filthy rich. |
| Populist Party | The Populist Part was the third biggest political party at the time. Its purpose was to represent the common folk (farmers especially). Against the interest of rich people and companies. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | This case was ruled in the African American's favor. He refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. The Supreme Court ruled "Separate but Equal" |
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