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- 1AmendmentA change that has been made or added to the Constitution
- 2AssimilateTo take in or adsorb into a community or ethnicity.
- 3BiasTo be or show favor to one group over another.
- 4BicameralHaving multiple branches of a group.
- 5BlockadeClosing off a path so that a person or group of people may not pass.
- 6BoomtownA town or city that is going through extreme economic growth.
- 7CapitalismA system of economy that is based on winners and losers in business.
- 8Captain of IndustryA rich man who is praised for how good he is and how chartable he is.
- 9Checks and BalancesA system of government that ensures that no branch will have the ability to overpower the other two.
- 10CongressA branch of government that makes decisions and sends bills to the president to either be approved or vetoed.
- 11Due Process of LawThe equal treatment of prisoners and those arrested as stated by the Bill of Rights.
- 12EconomicsA system of money regulation in the country.
- 13EmancipatedTo be freed from a power or oppression.
- 14EnfranchiseTo be granted the power to vote.
- 15EnumeratedTo mention two groups as separate.
- 16FederalismA part of government that regulates the entire nation.
- 17Forty-NinersThe prospectors that went to California to look for gold.
- 18Free EnterpriseThe system of economics that holds a persons money.
- 19Habeas CorpusThe right to see a court
- 20IndustryThe area a Corporation goes to make specific goods.
- 21JudicialThe branch of government that is in charge of the court.
- 22Ku Klux KlanA organization of white supremeists formed post Civil War
- 23Manifest DestinyThe belief that it was America's fate to colonize coast to coast
- 24MartyrSomeone who died for what they believed in.
- 25MonopolyThe control of the distribution of every good of a certain type
- 26NomadicA group of people or animals that move to hunt and gather their food source
- 27OverrideTo overthrow a decision with your power or multiple people's power
- 28Popular SovereigntyThe ability for the people to choose their representatives
- 29RatifyTo make true
- 30RadicalSomeone who wants something they want done now
- 31RepublicanismHaving decisions be made by someone who represents you.
- 32Robber BaronSomeone who has made their money in cruel ways and exploit anything if it makes them money
- 33RuralAn area that hasn't been populated by skyscrapers and large corporations
- 34Separation of PowersKeeping all of the the abilities of the Federal and State governments apart form each other
- 35Social DarwinismThe belief that only the most fit will survive in a species
- 36SufferageThe ability to vote
- 37Supreme CourtThe highest court in the land
- 38TariffA paper showing the duties of government
- 39Taxation Without RepresentationThe act of taxing a group of people without using the taxes to better their community
- 40Trade UnionAn agreement between businesses to control the market by raising the prices of all their rivaling products
- 41UrbanA area of the city that holds a community of people
- 42VetoTo block a bill in the process of becoming a law
- 43Thomas JeffersonThe third president and the inventor of the light bulb
- 44Andrew JacksonThe man responsible for the Trail of Tears
- 45SacagaweaThe woman who helped Lewis & Clark on their expadition
- 46James PolkThe man who added most of the land to America in Manifest Destiny
- 47Fredrick DouglassMade an abolitionist newspaper known as the North Star
- 48Harriet Beecher StoweWrote Uncle Tom's cabin which told what slavery was really like
- 49John BrownPreformed the Harpers Fairy Raid against the Southern States and was eventually killed for this
- 50Robert E. LeeWas a Confederate general who when he was defeated led to the CSA's downfall
- 51Andrew JohnsonWas the President who rose to power after the death of Abraham Lincoln
- 52Susan B. AnthonyBecame very famous for fighting for woman's suffrage
- 53Sitting BullWas a tribe leader who was killed on suspicion of being a Ghost Dancer
- 54George CusterA US general who was killed by the Sioux tribe
- 55Cornelius VanderbiltOne of the richest men who made his money off of railroads during the gilded age
- 56John RockefellerThe richest man ever who made his money off of oil
- 57Andrew CarneagieOn of the richest men who made his money off of mass producing steel
- 58JamestownThe first settlement in America was originally made to farm tobacco
- 59PlymouthA settlement created to provide religious freedom to former citizens of England
- 60Lexington and ConcordThe first battle fought during the Revolutionary War
- 61Erie CanalA canal dug to connect Lake Ontario to the Hudson River for New York
- 62The AlamoA famous battle fought when Texas was trying to escape and leave Mexico
- 63Harper's FerryThe location that John Brown carried out his raid to try and cripple the South
- 64Fort SumterA Union fort that was in southern states when they seceded so many disputes were had
- 65GettysburgThe bloodiest battle fought during the civil war, took place when two generals met on a random ecounter
- 66Appomattox CourthouseThe location in which the Confederate army had to surrender to the Union soldiers
- 67Ford's TheatreThe theatre in which Lincoln was assassinated
- 68Promontory Point, UtahWhere the Transcontinental Railroad was completed
- 69Ellis Island and Angle IslandThe two islands where immigrants would come to become citizens of america Ellis for Europeans, Angle for Asians
- 70The Declaration of IndependenceThe letter sent to the King of Brittan stating us becoming our own country
- 71Revolutionary WarThe war fought over America when we were trying to leave Brittian
- 72Articles of ConfederationThe first draft of the Constitution which was scraped because it didn't give enough power to the government
- 73Great ComprimiseThe statement that states will get equal representation no matter the size or population
- 74Passing of the ConstitutionThe decision to make this part of the country's laws and order
- 75Adding the Bill Of RightsThe additon list of the first ten amendments that allowed more freedoms to the citizens of the US
- 76Lousiana Purchaseland received from Napoleon which add lots of land to the country for a cheap price
- 77Missouri ComprimiseThe allowence of missori to be a state proslavery as long as a anti-slavery state was added as well
- 78Indian Removal ActThe period when many Indian Tribes were forced to migrate to Kansas
- 79Mexican-American WarA war fought after Texas became a state which eventually allowed us to add more land to the country
- 80California Gold RushHappened when gold was discovered in California many people went to try and get rich but many failed
- 81Homestead ActStated that if people moved west they could receive free land if they claimed it first
- 82Industrial RevolutionThe period in which America was converting from agriculture toward the age of steel
- 83Underground RailroadA path that would help many slaves escape the binds of slavery to the North or even to Canada
- 84Seneca Falls ConventionA famous place that plays a big part in women's suffrage
- 85Compromise of 1850the allowance of some states to join as free states but then add more states as slave states
- 86Kansas-Nebraska ActThe ability for Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their standing on slavery
- 87Dred Scott v. SanfordA court battle that eventually ruled that slaves had no rights even in anti-slavery states
- 88Fugitive Slave ActDecreed that any black suspected of being a runaway slave can be caught and be put on trial for running away
- 89Bleeding KansasA 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
- 90Civil WarThe fight between the North and South on whether or not the Southern states may leave the union
- 91Emancipation ProclamationThe adress that decided that all slaves were free in areas of rebellion
- 92Civil War Draft RiotsRiots that happened because of people who weren't happy they were drafted
- 93Gettysburg AdressA speech that Lincoln gave that inspired many Northerners to continue the fight
- 94ReconstructionA period after the Civil War that was meant to help ease back in the Southern states but eventually failed due to corruption
- 95Civil War AmmendmentsThree amendments that helped give equal rights to former slaves in southern states
- 96Completion of the Trans Continental RailroadWhen the railroad that spanned america was finally completed
- 97Indian WarsBattles fought between Indian Tribes and the army over land disputes
- 98Gilded AgeA period in history of large economical growth due to booming businesses, where the richest men came from
- 99Populist PartyOriginated in Kansas mad to give people all the power
- 100Plessy v. FergusionA court case that regarded how segregation was different from "Separate but equal"