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| Question | Answer |
| amendment | win add something to in anoint dominant |
| assimilate | Marie tried to assimilate the week's events |
| bias | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
| bicamerl | having two branches or chambers. |
| blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving |
| boomtoon | 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 | During the Industrial Revolution, a captain of industry was a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way. This may have been through increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs, or acts of philanthropy |
| checks and balances | counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. |
| Congress | the national legislative body of a country |
| dew process of law | due process of law definition. The principle that an individual cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards |
| economics | the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. |
| emancipated | free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated |
| enfranchise | a proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections" synonyms: give the vote to, give suffrage to, grant suffrage to "women were enfranchised in Manitoba in 1916 |
| enumrateed | past tense: enumerated; past participle: enumerated |
| federalism | the federal principle or system of government |
| forty nines | a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849 |
| free enterprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control |
| Habease corpuse | a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially 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 | of, by, or appropriate to a court or judge |
| ku klux klan | a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings |
| mainifest destiny | the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. |
| martyr | a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion |
| monopoly | exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| override | to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule |
| ratify | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid |
| radical | (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough. |
| republicanism | Republicanism is the ideology of governing a society or state as a republic (la. res publica), where the head of state is a representative of the people who hold popular sovereignty rather than the people being subjects of the head of state. |
| rober barin | an unscrupulous plutocrat especially an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. |
| rural | in, relating to or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town |
| separation of powers | an act of vesting the legislative, executive and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. |
| social darwinism | the theory that individuals, groups and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism and racism and to discourage intervention and reform |
| suffrage | the right to vote in political elections |
| supreme cort | the highest judicial court in a country or state |
| tariff | a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports |
| taxation without representation | A slogan of the Revolutionary War and the years before. The colonists were not allowed to choose representatives to parliament in London, which passed the laws under which they were taxed |
| trade union | another term for labor union |
| urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town |
| veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| 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 Jonson | Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination |
| Sacajawea | Sacagawea, also Sakakawea or Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide during their exploration of the Western United States |
| James Polk | James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Oldenburg County North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. |
| frederick duglass | Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer orator abolitionist writer and statesman |
| harriet beecher stowe | Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play |
| john broun | John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States |
| Robert E Lee | Robert Edward Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865 |
| Andrew jackson | Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently |
| Susan. B Anthony | Susan Browne Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17 |
| sitting Bull | Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. |
| George Custer | George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his clas |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |
| John Rockefeller | John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for America and the British Empire |
| Jamestown | The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British |
| Plymouth | Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture 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 | The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence |
| Erie canal | The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo New York at Lake Erie |
| the Alamo | On February 23, 1836 the arrival of General Antonio Lopez DE Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's arm |
| Harper's ferry | Harper Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. It was formerly Harper's Ferry with an apostrophe and that form continues to appear in some references. |
| Fort sumter | The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War |
| Gettysburg | Having concentrated his army around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gen. Robert E. Lee awaited the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll. The following day saw Lee strike the Union flanks, leading to heavy battle at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield Peach Orchard, Culprits Hill and East Cemetery Hill. Southerners captured Devil’s Den and the Peach Orchard, but ultimately failed to dislodge the Union defenders. On the final day, July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. After being cut down by a massive artillery bombardment in the afternoon, Lee attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge and was repulsed in what is now known as Pickett’s Charge. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed, and had resulted in heavy casualties; an estimated 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or listed as missing after Gettysburg |
| Appomattox courthouse | where the war ended in Virginia |
| ford's theater | Ford's Theatre is a historic theatre in Washington, D.C., used for various stage performances beginning in the 1860s. It is also the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 |
| promontory Pont Utah | Promontory Point is the cape or southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake at 41°12′18″N 112°25′43″W / 41.20500°N 112.42861°W in Box Elder County Utah with an elevation of |
| Ellis island and Angel island | Angel Island located in California's San Francisco Bay, has been used for many purposes including military forts |
| declaration of independence | IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. |
| revolutionary war | This article contains fast facts and information about the Revolutionary War. Why did the American Revolutionary War begin? Because the American colonists believed that they deserved all the rights of Englishmen but were not receiving them. When was the American Revolutionary War? The Revolutionary War beginning date was April 19, 1775 with the The Battle of Lexington and the end date was September 3, 1783. Read the facts about the Revolutionary War for a fast overview of the American War of Independence. Facts about the Revolutionary War continue with a list of the names of great American Military leaders and facts about the major Battles |
| articles of confederation | the original constitution of the US ratified in 1781 which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789 |
| the grate compromise 1781-1805 | The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that 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 of the Constitution | anti federalist apposed the new Constitution wanted a bill of rights .Congress started the bill of rights for exchange for ratification of the Constitution in 1793. |
| adding of the bill of rights | the bill of rights is the list of the governments power. Madison, thin the members of the U>S hose of repetitiveness ,went threw the Constitution it's self, Machining changes where he that was most appropriate. |
| the Louisiana Purchase | with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 , the United stats Purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory |
| Missouri compromise | was worked out with the following provisions to keep peace and balance between the save and free stats :(1)Missouri was amited as a slave state and mane (formally part as Massachusetts) as free ,and (2) exseped for Missouri savory was excluded from the Louisiana Purchase land north from 36 degrees 30' |
| Indianan removal act | Indian Removal Act summary: After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829, President Andrew Jackson signed this into law on May 28 1830. Although it only gave the right to negotiate for their withdrawal from areas to the east of the Mississippi river and that relocation was supposed to be voluntary, all of the pressure was there to make this all but inevitable. All the tribal leaders agreed after Jackson’s landslide election victory in 183 |
| Mexican American war | The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New MexicoThe Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. |
| California gold rush | factor in California's history. However, some historians have more recently argued that California might have been better off if gold had never been discovered and that given its other natural advantages, it would have become just a populous and prosperous - but such prosperity would have been more gradual, orderly, and civilized. These very same historians argue that the gold rush left California environmentally ravished - habitats were destroyed; entire species depleted; hillsides, streams, rivers, and watersheds destroyed. Was this progress asks many historians |
| homestead act | On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman, a Union Army scout, was scheduled to leave Gage County, Nebraska Territory, to report for duty in St. Louis. At a New Year's Eve party the night before, Freeman met some local Land Office officials and convinced a clerk to open the office shortly after midnight in order to file a land claim. In doing so, Freeman became one of the first to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Homestead Act, a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. At the time of the signing, 11 states had left the Union, and this piece of legislation would continue to have regional and political overtones |
| industrial revolution | DEFINITION of 'Industrial Revolution' A period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Industrial Revolution, beginning in Great Britain, quickly spread throughout the world |
| underground railroad | The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848 |
| compromise of 1850 | The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). |
| Kansas Nebraska act | The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slaves or not |
| Dred Scott v. Standferd | In Dred Scott v. Sandford (argued 1856 -- decided 1857), the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories |
| fugitive slave act | A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. |
| cavil war | a war between citizens of the same country |
| emancipation proclamation | The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy). |
| cival war Draft Riot | Draft Riot of 1863, major four-day eruption of violence in New York City resulting from deep worker discontent with the inequities of conscription during the U.S. Civil War |
| Gettysburg address | The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history |
| Reconstruction | Reconstruction definition. The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments |
| civil war amendments | The 13th (1865), 14th (1868), and 15th Amendments (1870) were the first amendments made to the U.S. constitution in 60 years. Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves |
| trans continental railroad | transcontinental railroad definition. A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah |
| Indian war | The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple conflicts between American settlers or the United States government and the native peoples of North America from the time of earliest colonial settlement until 1890 |
| Gilded age | The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrant |
| populist party | Populist party definition. A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890s and drew support especially from disgruntled farmers |
| plesey vs fregoson | Definition of Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants |
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