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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change or addition to a legal document |
| Assimilate | Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully. |
| Bias | For or against someone or something |
| Bicameral | Having two branches or chambers |
| Blockade | An act to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving |
| Boomtown | A town undergoing constant growth due to prosperity |
| Capitalism | An economic/political system in which a country's trade/industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the states |
| Captain of Industry | A business person who is successful and powerful. They also can come up with ideas that will help people and not just themselves. |
| Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch |
| Congress | The United States legislative body |
| Due process of law | In the event of a case this act protects the rights of all people |
| Economics | A social science that studies how individuals, governments, and nations make choices on scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants |
| Emancipated | *(To set free) Especially from legal, social, or political limits *The freeing of someone from slavery |
| Enfranchise | Give the right to vote |
| Enumerated | Mention things one by one |
| Federalism | Principle or system of government |
| Forty-Niners | A person/prospector in the California gold rush of 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | An economic system in which private businesses compete and are largely free of state control |
| Habeas Corpus | A right requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
| Industry | Processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| Judicial | Appropriate to a court or judge |
| K.K.K. | A secret organization in the southern U.S. that active for several years after the Civil War |
| Manifest Destiny | The 19th-century belief that the U.S. should move west |
| Matyr | A person who is killed because of their beliefs |
| Monopoly | Exclusive control of a commodity or business in a particular market |
| Nomadic | Hunter-gatherer tribes that follow the animals they hunt |
| Override | Use one's authority to reject/cancel |
| Popular Sovereignty | The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people |
| Ratify | Sign or give formal consent to |
| Radical | Complete political or social reform |
| Republicanism | The ideology of governing a society or state as a republican |
| Robber Baron | An American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the nineteenth century by ruthless/cruel means |
| Rural | The country side EX: KCK |
| Separation of powers | Invest in the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodie |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection such as, plants and animals |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest judicial court in a country or state |
| Tariff | A tax or duty to be paid |
| Taxation with representarion | A situation in which a government imposes taxes on a particular group of its citizen |
| Trade Union | Workers in an industry |
| Urban | City or town area |
| Veto | To reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| Thomas Jefferson | An American Founding Father, a principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States |
| Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and seeked to act as the direct representative of the common man |
| Sacagawea | A Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a guide during their exploration of the Western United State |
| James K. Polk | He extended our country by 1/3 and was our 11th president (1845-1849) |
| Fredrick Douglass | An African-American social reformer, abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman who escaped slavery in the late 1800's |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | An American abolitionist and author who wrote her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin to describe life for African Americans under slavery |
| John Brown | A white abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the U.S.A |
| Robert E. Lee | An American soldier who was best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President under Lincoln and became President after Lincoln’s assassination. He vetoes so many reconstruction bills that he is called the “Veto President”. He is often listed as the worst President ever |
| Susan B. Anthony | An American social reformer and feminist who played a vital role in the women's suffrage movement |
| Sitting Bull | A holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during the years of resistance to the United States government policies |
| George Custer | A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the American/Indian Wars |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | An American businessman who built his wealth off of railroads and shippin |
| John Rockefeller | An American buisnessman who made his money off of the oil industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | A Scottish Americanwho led the major expansion of the American steel industry |
| Jamestown | The Colony of Virginia that was the first permanent English settlement in the America |
| Plymouth | An English colonial venture in U.S. from 1620 to 1691 |
| Lexington and Concord | The very first military engagements of the Revolutionary War |
| Erie Canal | A canal in New York that ran about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie |
| The Alamo | A battle between a minor group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army |
| Harper Ferry Raid | John Brown and his men marched into Harpers Ferry, capturing several watchmen |
| Fort Sumter | The very first battle of the American Civil War |
| Gettysburg | The turning point of the war where the north won (huge victory). It is also considered the biggest battle of the American Civil War |
| Appomattox Courthouse | The Battle of Appomattox Court House that was fought on the morning of April 9, 1865 and was the last battle of the American Civil War |
| Fords Theater | The site and place of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The site of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, which linked the Union Pacific on the east and the Central Pacific on the west |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | An immigration station where immigrants who were entering the United States were detained and interrogated |
| Declaration of Indepence | A document that made the United States a nation and was made official on July 4, 1776 |
| Revolutionary War | The war fought against Britian for American Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | The constitution of the US that was ratified in 1781. Although, was later replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. |
| Great Compromise | A compromise that resolved the highly controversial issue of representation that would soon raise the Constitutional Convention |
| Passing of the Constitution | The passing declaring that all laws/amendments must be ratified by Congress |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the US Constitution that guaranted the rights to the freedom of speech, assembly, and worship |
| Louisiana Purchase | Territory from France for the paltry sum of $15 million |
| Missouri Compromise | A compromise that equaled out the free states and the slave states |
| Indian Removal Acts (Trail of Tears) | An act declaring that indians must move to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands that Americans wanted |
| Mexican-American War | The United States won the war and continued there manifest destiny after the war was over |
| California Gold Rush | a large-scale of people in a region who where looking for gold that has been discovered |
| Homestead Act | A law passed which made it possible for settlers to acquire land in the West |
| Industrial Revolution | The transition processes in the 1800s that changed our country's manufactoring |
| Underground Railroad | A secret route that would allow slaves to get to the north to find freedom |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention to ever set foot in the U.S.A. |
| Compromise of 1850 | A compromise mainly known for admitting California as a free state |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened up new lands for settlement |
| Dred Scott vs.Sanford | The Supreme Court ruled that Americans that where African whether free or slave, were not American citizens |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law passed in 1850 that provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states |
| Bleeding Kansas | A period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory where many sides wanted the territory |
| Civil War | A war between people of the same nation |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An executive order freeing slaves in all portions of the United States that where not under Union control |
| Civil War Draft Riots | major eruption of violence in New York City during the Civil War that lasted four days |
| Gettysburg Address | A speech given by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that gave the union hope and told them to keep striving as a Nation |
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War where the Confederacy states where forced back into the Union |
| Civil War Amendments | The amendments giving African Americans their freedom |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | A trai n route that stretched through the U.S.A. and made it easier to transport goods |
| Indian Wars | The multiple conflicts between Americans and Indians in the 1800s |
| Gilded Age | A period of major economic growth |
| Populist Party | A movement that sprang up in the 1890s and drew support for disgruntled farmers |
| Plessy Vs. Ferguson | A case decided by the supreme court n the 1890s over racial segragation |
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