14th WYNTK

Frage	Antworten
Amendment	Something that is added to the bill of rights.
Assimilate	To fully understand
Bias	When someone is giving more favor to another then someone else
Bicameral	A legislative body
Boomtown	A town that suddenly grows in population
Blockade	To block something a certain area from going in or out
Capitalism	A system that has losers and winners
Captain of Industry	Someone that build a corporation and gives fair pay to his/hers workers
Checks & Balances	It is a system were the 3 governments checking each other and gives balance of power
Congress	Apart in the legislative branch that has two houses: senate and house of reps.
Due Process	States have there own rights but must also follow the governments rights.
Economics	Amount of money in there area and its growth
Emancipated	To be free
Enfranchise	To give the right to vote
Enumerated	Mentioning separately
Federalism	A system of government
Forty-Niners	Someone in the Gold Rush
Free Enterprise	A system were private business operates in competition
Habeas Corpus	A person that is under arrest and then they get to see a judge or jury
Industry	A place that makes stuff from raw material
Judicial	The court or a judge
Ku Klux Klan	A group of people that don't like blacks being free and want white supremacy
Manifest Destiny	When white settlers moved West
Martyr	A person who fights for there religious cause
Monopoly	where a single company owns all the market for there product
Nomadic	Of relating to or characteristics of nomads
Override	when something gets overturned
Popular Sovereignty	People give the government power
Ratify	Sign or give formal consent
Radical	Extreme
Republicanism	Republicans
Robber Baron	Somebody that doesn't give there workers fair pay and not good working condition
Rural	Country
Separation Of Powers	In the three branch the branches are separated
Social Darwinism	The belief of losers and winners
Suffrage	Someone that was for women's right to vote
Supreme COurt	The highest court
Tariff	Tax or duty to be paid on a particular class
Taxation Without Representation	Boston tea party
Trade UNion	Workers that help people to make safe working conditions
Urban	City
Veto	When the president doesn't like the bill he'll ____ it
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state second vice president and, as the third president
Andrew Jackson	Andrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual. Shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel died at the Hermitage; Jackson apparently believed the negative attacks had hastened her death.
Sacajawea	Lead settlers through america and translated for them
James Polk	Bought Louisiana territory
Fredrick Douglass	Was a black writer
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
John Brown	Was in charge of the Harper's Ferry Raid
Robert E. Lee	Best general in civil war
Andrew Johnson	Almost got impeached
Susan B. Anthony	Women's right activist
Sitting Bull	Last Indian to fight in a war against america
George Custer	General who killed many Indians
Cornelius Vanderbilt	Invested in railroads and was captain of industry
John Rockefeller	Made his money off of steel
Andrew Carnegie	Made his money off of oil
Jamestown	First american settlement
Plymouth	Second american settlement
Lexington and Concord	There was a battle here
Erie Canal	Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east.
The Alamo	The battle of the Alamo happened here
Harper's Ferry	In October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harper's Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown
Fort Sumter	First battle in civil war
Gettysburg	This is where the bloodiest battle happened
Appomattox Courthouse	This is were the civil war officially ended
Fords Theater	This is where Lincoln got assassinated
Promontory Point, Utah	Promontory Summit, Utah is the location where the United States' first Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869. The two railroads that joined were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
Ellis and Angel Island	From 1910-1940, Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated
Declaration Of Independence	Gave freedom to america
Revolutionary War	British and Americas war
Articles of Confederation	First written constitution of the United States. Stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states before was it was ratified on March 1, 1781.
Great Compromise	Large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States
Passing Constitution	After Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 106b.
Adding Bill of Rights	The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as the first ten amendments on December 15, 1791
Louisiana Purchase	Bought from France
Missouri Compromise	federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories
Indian Removal Act	passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal
Mexican-American War	marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico
Gold Rush	People were finding gold in California
Homestead Act	encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
Industrial Revolution	was the transition to new manufacturing processes
Underground Railroad	a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention	At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States
Compromise of 1850	January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
Kansas Nebraska Act	created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement
Dred Scott v. Sanford	Scott lost and blacks couldn't sew a white
Fugitive Slave Act	If a black was caught in the North they would have to return them
Bleeding Kansas	a series of violent political confrontations in the United States
Civil War	War against North and South
Emancipation Proclamation	declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
Civil War Draft Riots	Rioters torched government buildings and, on July 15, fought pitched battles with troops.
Gettysburg Addres	dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War
Reconstruction	history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
Civil War Amendments	are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War.
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad	It allowed goods and people to travel quicker and safer
Indian Wars	Indians would get in wars with america but it was really the other way around
Gilded Age	30 yrs after Civil War
Populist Party	movement was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties
Plessy v. Ferguson	In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the case and held the Louisiana segregation

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