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| Frage | Antworten |
| 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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