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Questão | Responda |
Fort Sumter | The first battle of the Civil War. |
Amendment | A change in a document. |
Assimilate | Understand something fully. |
Bias | To be unequal or unfair. |
Bicameral | Legislative, two branches. |
Blockade | Blocking off a certain place to prevent people from entering or leaving. |
Boomtown | A town expanding very rapidly. |
Capitalism | It is where a country is controlled by private owners and not the states. |
Caaptain of Industry. | A business leader who cares about his country. |
Checks and Balances | All the branches from the government have equal power. |
Congress | Consists of the Senate and House of representatives. |
Due precess of law | No citizen can be denied their legal rights. |
Economics | Production and goods and services. |
Emancipated | legally free |
Enfranchise | To give the right to vote. |
Enumerated | The number of something. |
Federalism | The system of the government. |
Forty-niners | People that went for the gold rush. |
Free Enterprise | Businesses can do what ever they want with their product. |
Habeas Corpus | Requiring someone to be brought into court. |
Industry | Processing raw materials and manufactured goods. |
Judicial | It consists of judges and courts. |
Ku Klux Klan | They wore bags over their heads and went around and killed a lot of African Americans during the night. |
Manifest Destiny | A period in which American expanded from north to south. |
Martyr | A person who dies for religious believes. |
Monopoly | One company over rules all the other companies. |
Nomadic | Its a lifestyle |
override | The majorities authority rules everyone else. |
popular sovereighty | the people get to choose. |
Ratify | Make official |
Radical | supporting a big section of people. |
Republicanism | The state over rules the people in that state. |
Rober Baron | Doesn't care about anybody but himself. |
Rural | Like the country and not like in the city. |
Separation of powers | Branches have some power over each other. |
Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
Supreme Court | The highest court |
Tariff | Taxes or duties to be paid |
Taxation without representation | A major cause for the American revolution |
Trade union | Where they made people work in unsafe conditions. |
Urban | In the city not the country. |
Veto | To reject something. |
Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the declaration of Independence and was the third president. |
Andrew Jackson | Seventh president |
Sacagawea | Occompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition |
James Polk | Got the Oregon territory when he was president. |
Fredrick douglass | Born a slave and escaped to the Underground railroad. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was an abolitionist and wrote the book Uncle Toms Cabin. |
John Brown | American Abolitionist |
Robert E. Lee | Cammander of the confederate army. |
Andrew Johnson | 17th president |
Sitting Bull | He was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man. |
George Custer | Cammander in the American Civil war |
Cornelius Vanderbelt | Built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |
John Rockefeller | Co founder of a standard oil company |
Andrew Carnegie | Produced steel |
Jamestown | First settlement of the Virginia colony |
Plymouth | A way of trading in the iron age. |
Lexington and Concord | First military engagments of the American revolutionary war |
Erie Canal | It was a water route |
The alamo | It was and event during the Texas revolution |
Harpers Ferry | It was a boat |
Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle of the Civil war |
Appomatox Courthouse | Where Robert E lee surrendered |
Fords Theater | It is where Abraham Lincoln got assassinated. |
Promontory Point, Utah | The end of Fremont Island |
Ellis Island and Angel Island | Where the immigrants came before entering America |
Declaration of Independence | Written by Thomas Jefferson |
Revolutionary War | It was between Great Britain and the 13 colonies of North America. |
Articles of confederation | First written constitution of the United states |
Great Comprimise | Between all the states in the united states |
Passing of gthe constitution | It has 7 articles in it |
Adding the Bill of Rights | It created a federal system |
Lousiana purchase | The united states bought it from France |
Missouri Comprimise | Decided that Missouri was a slave state |
Indian removal act | They made them go to Oklahoma and many people died that why its called the trail of tears. |
Mexican American War | Between mexico and the untied states |
California gold rush | when people went here they would be call 49ers. |
Homestead act | Abraham Lincoln made it a law |
Industrial revolution | It is where raw material was being turned into manufactured goods |
Underground rail road | A way that slaves could get to the north |
Seneca Falls convention | The womens rights movement |
Comprimise of 1850 | Fugitive slave act was brought up. |
Kansas Nebraska act | To tell whether they would be slave states or not |
Dred scott case | He took his owner to court |
Fugitive slave act | If any slave got way they must be returned to their master |
bleeding kansas | A dispute between anti-slavery groups and border ruffians |
Civil war | the north brought back the south to the united states |
Emancipation Proclamination | To set all slaves free in the united states |
Civil war draft riots | tried to start the civil war again |
Gettysburg addresss | Abraham Lincoln gave a speech because of how many deaths there were there |
Reconstruction | They had to rebuild America after the Civil war. |
13th 14th 15th | abolished slavery gave the right to vote granted citizenship |
Completion of transcontinental railroad | Helped ship things to the north from the south |
Indian wars | America and Indians had wars |
Gilded age | Building America |
Populist party | The states rule |
Plessy vs verguson | America killed the indians |
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