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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A revision or addition to The Constitution of the United States of America |
| Assimilate | To bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc.; to blend |
| Bias | Have a preference or to dislike something over another thing. |
| Bicameral | Having two branches or chambers (referring to legislative body) |
| Blockade | To keep supplies out of an area as a war tactic by breaking railroads, stopping ships etc. |
| Boomtown | A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity |
| Capitalism | An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
| Captain of Industry | A businessman who makes his wealth by selling a product that will help the people, supplying workers with good pay, working hard for success and by giving to charity |
| Checks and Balances | A system where each branch checks the on one another to maintain a balanced government. |
| Congress | The legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. |
| Due Process of Law | Legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one's life, liberty, or property. Also, a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable, Arbitrary, or capricious. |
| Economics | the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. |
| Emancipated | Free from bondage |
| Enfranchise | to give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list: |
| Federalism | ? |
| Forty-niners | a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849. |
| Free Interprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. |
| Habeas Corpus | letting a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention. |
| Industry | economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| Judicial | this is the branch of government that interprets the law and holds trials in a court house. There are 9 Justices in the highest court in the land, The Supreme Court. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of usually southerners who believe in white power and were known for being very sneaky and attacking at night. They spread their beliefs with violence. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that america should be expanded west to the coast |
| Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. |
| Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |
| Nomadic | Anything that moves around a lot |
| Override | to have a large enough amount of votes that can replace the presidents vote |
| Popular Sovereignty | when the people are the source of political power |
| Ratify | making something valid by giving consent |
| Radical | to be extreme about what you believe in |
| Republicanism | a political party that originated in the north and believes in equal rights and harsh punishment on southerners |
| Robber Baron | A business man who makes his money by shortening workers pay with longer hours, crushes all competition, keeps all of his money, and doesn't care about anything but his company |
| Rural | an area where there is not a lot of people of buildings outside of urban city |
| Separation of Power | Not one branch of government has more power than another |
| Social Darwinism | like survival of the fittest where people with the best suitable living conditions will proseper |
| Suffrage | the right to vote in public elections |
| Supreme Court | the highest court in the land with 9 justices. This is where the most challenging trials are held. |
| Tariff | A tax on goods a country imports or exports. |
| Taxation without representation | British parliament taxed Americans without giving them a say on the matter so they rallied and chanted this line |
| Trade union | a union where they protect the rights and work conditions of laborers in a large company |
| Urban | an area with a high population and large company's with factories and large buildings |
| Veto | to reject |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. |
| Andrew Jackson | He was a president who signed the indian removal act, removing indians from their home territory. He is liked by people who believed in manifest destiny and hated by indians who were on the trail of tears. |
| Sacagawea | she was a huge help in the lewis and clark exposition by communicating with other indians, informing them with knowledge of land, all while being pregnant and then carrying her baby. |
| James Polk | James K. Polk expanded the borders of the United States to the Pacific Ocean, added three states to the Union, started the Naval Academy, commissioned the Washington Monument, and issued the first postage stamp. |
| Frederick douglass | He was a freed slave who was famous for writing the newspaper called Liberator, and his most famous Narrative of Frederick Douglass . |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was a northerner who saw the darkness in slavery, so she wrote a book called Uncle Toms Cabin that is a fictional story about a slave. |
| John Brown | a man who believed in violence to overturn the issue of slavery. He also led the harpers ferry raid./ |
| Robert E. Lee | A general for the south who was very powerful and led the strongest army in the south. When he surrendered during the civil war, the war was over. |
| Andrew Johnson | he was the vice president of the United States when Abe Lincoln was assassinated. He the 1st and only president to be impeached. His nickname was the Veto president due to him always vetoing the bills that come to him. |
| Susan B. Anthony | an American feminist who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was committed to social equality |
| Sitting Bull | a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. |
| George Custer | a U.S. cavalry officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War, is better known for leading more than 200 of his men to their deaths in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping |
| John Rockefeller | an American business man and philanthropist and a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. |
| Andrew Carnegie | led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry by being the 1st to mass produce steel and was a philanthropist for America and the British Empire |
| Jamestown | the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America, founded on May 14, 1607 |
| Plymouth | English colonial trip in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. |
| Lexington and Concord | 1st battle in the rev war |
| Erie Canal | it connected Lake Erie and the Great Lakes system to the Hudson River, and thereby gave the western states direct access to the Atlantic Ocean |
| The Alamo | a violent fight in texas with few american troops and lots of mexican |
| Harpers Ferry | where John Brown had an organized rebellion |
| Fort Sumter | beginning of the civil war |
| Gettysburg | largest and bloodiest battle in the civil war giving the union morale |
| Appomattox Court House | where the confeds surrendered |
| fords theater | where abe was shot and died |
| Promontory Point Utah | there the 2 railroads met to complete the transcontinental railroad. Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails |
| Ellis and Angel islands | immigrant boarding and living places |
| Declaration of Independance | we are freed from british |
| Revolutionary War | a war between british and america |
| Articles of Confederation | The rough draft of the Constitution |
| Great compromise | A combination of the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan |
| Passing of the constitution | The constitution begins with the bill of rights and is like a list of laws of the country must follow |
| Bill of Rights | The first 10 amendments in the. Constitution |
| Louisiana purchase | America purchased the Louisiana territory from France |
| Missouri compromise | Missouri became a slave state and the line was made |
| Indian removal act also known as the trail of tears | Andrew Jackson passed the switch moved all Indian tribes to Oklahoma so that whites may settle |
| Mexican American war | America wanted California another Mexican territories so they went to war and it ended and Guadalupe Bay Hidalgo |
| California Gold Rush | a huge boom in gold in california attracting alot of people |
| Homestead Act | encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. |
| Industrial revolution | a time where america really boomed in the industrial field |
| Underground Railroad | a secret chain of safe houses for runaway slaves |
| Seneca Falls | a meeting of woman suffragists |
| Compromise of 1850 | in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South, henry clay Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | kansas and nebraska residents could vote on the issue of slavery |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens |
| Bleeding Kansas | missouri people would come and wreak violence in order to get there illegal votes in |
| Civil war | a war between north and south |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in the states of rebellion |
| Civil war draft riots | riots in new york over 4 days to protest the rich being able to pay out of the draft |
| Gettysburg adress | lincoln's most famous speech after a bloody battle in a graveyard |
| Reconstruction | a time where our country was trying to rebuild itself after the civil war |
| Civil war amendments | 13th 14th 15th |
| Completion of the transcontinental railroad | GOLD SPIKE AND PROMONTORY POINT |
| Indian Wars | wars between tribes in rebellion to the usa wanting their land |
| Gilded age | a time where we had an economic boom |
| Populist party | a political party where it is for the people and their beliefs |
| Plessy vs furgason | desegregated schools so blacks and whites can go to school together |
| Fugitive slave Act | any slave found that has run away may be captured and returned to their master for a prize of cash |
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