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| Question | Answer |
| amendment | An official change to a law or rule |
| assimilate | To take in or absorb |
| bias | to agree with your own opinion |
| bicameral | Two different branches or chambers |
| Blockade | blocking a place from letting any goods or products in |
| boomtown | a sudden growth of a places economy |
| capitalism | when a country's trade and industries are run be private owners for a profit |
| captain of industry | the opposite of a robber baron. They work hard but fair and become successful in the business world while also helping those around them to become successful too |
| Checks and balances | these are different ways to keep one branch of the government from getting anymore powerful than another |
| congress | Part of the legislative branch made up of the senate and the house of representatives |
| due process of law | the fair treatment through the judicial system. It is an important right to a citizen |
| economics | the production , consumption, and transfer of wealth |
| emancipated | freed from bonds |
| enfranchise | to admit a citizen the right to vote |
| enumerated | to go one after another |
| federalism | the distribution of power |
| forty-niners | people during the gold rush that went looking for gold the were called this because the gold rush happened in 1849 |
| free enterprise | the economic system where private business have competition |
| habeas corpus | the right to all citizens in the USA to be sentenced to a trial before being ruled guilty and put in jail |
| industry | an economic system that processes raw materials and is very competitive |
| judicial | the administration of justice throughout an area |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of people who were against reconstruction and who's goal is to strike fear into freed slaves and anyone willing to help them so that the white people are deemed superior to the blacks. |
| manifest destiny | the idea that the west is meant for the Americans to go through and tame so that we can control our land and that it is what God wants no matter if anyone or thing gets in our way (specifically the native Americans) it is rightfully ours. |
| Martyr | someone killed because of their religious beliefs or practices |
| monopoly | something that the government never wants its when one big company becomes so powerful that the other smaller company's have no chance of succeeding or getting any bigger. |
| nomadic | whenever something or someone moves around a lot. |
| override | whenever someone's authority or opinion is rejected or canceled |
| popular severity | the idea that the people run the government and the people are the ones that are benefited. |
| ratify | to confirm something is done and agreed upon. |
| radical | going to the extreme in any matter.(overdoing it) |
| republicanism | the idea that there is a government a society and a state that manages things. |
| robber baron | the opposite of a captain of industry. They scam their workers and buyers so that they can get the money. They don't care what happens in the world around them and most would enjoy it if they became the monopoly in their product field. |
| rural | an area that is located away from cities and towns. |
| separation of powers | the act of making judicial, legislative and executive branches of the government in separate bodies |
| social Darwinism | the idea that survival of the fittest and those who adapt survive applies to polotics |
| suffrage | the right to vote in political elections |
| supreme court | the highest judicial court in the country or state |
| tariff | a tax or duty to be paid on something imported or exported |
| taxation without representation | during and before the revolutionary war the colonists were not allowed political representation in London even though they paid the same taxes as those in london |
| trade union | another word for labor union where a group of workers come together to secure their future |
| urban | the characteristic of city or town |
| veto | the right to reject a decision or a proposal relating to a law making group |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father a main author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United |
| Andrew Jackson | the seventh president of the united states hero of the war of 1812 and ran for two terms |
| Sacagawea | the native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark in their expedition through north America. |
| James K Polk | The eleventh president of the United States. Most well known for all of the land that he got during manifest destiny. |
| Fredrick Douglass | An African American slave who escaped slavery and wrote an autobiography exposing the horrors of slavery to the American people. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | An abolitionist woman who wrote a book about slavery helping to expose it. |
| John Brown | An abolitionist that thought the only way to end slavery was by force. And was killed while trying to use force to end slavery. |
| Robert E Lee | The leader of the confederate army during the civil war. He eventually surrendered and lost the war. |
| Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson could arguably be the worst president ever. He was the president after Abraham Lincoln and helped to cause the failure of reconstruction. |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was an abolitionist in women's voting rights. She teamed up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to lead the national American suffrage foundation. |
| Sitting Bull | An Indian who was being forced off of his land by the Americans. But ended up trying to stay on his land that is why he is called Sitting Bull because he would not leave. |
| George Custer | An army officer that broke a treaty because the land that the treaty protected and gave to the Indians had gold on it. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | An American businessman who made his fortune off of railroads and shipping. |
| John Rockefeller | An American business man who made his money off of oil and monopolized the selling of oil for the time period that he was producing it. |
| Andrew Carnegie | A man who lead the expansion of steel throughout the US And mane the process of making steel quite a bit quicker and more efficient. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in America. |
| Plymouth | The first settlement of the Plymouth colony lead by captain John Smith |
| Lexington And Concord | The first fight of the revolutionary war with Paul Revere and the minute men. |
| Erie Canal | The Erie Canal is an artificial waterway that connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie. |
| The Alamo | Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. Killing all of the Texian defenders. |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 21 men in his party, was defeated. |
| Fort Sumter | Fort Sumter is located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the place where the shots that started the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 |
| Gettysburg | The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North. |
| Appomattox courthouse | This is where general Lee surrendered to Grant to end the civil war and to show the union had won. |
| Fords Theater | This is the theater that Lincoln was at when he was assassinated. |
| Promontory Point | The point where the first transcontinental railroad was finished. |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Where many immigrants entered the US at. |
| Declaration of independence | This is the declaration that the settlers of the Americas want to be free from England and to be their own country. |
| Revolutionary war | The war after the declaration of independence against the settlers of the new land America and the British their previous homeland over the freedom to have their own country. |
| Articles of confederation | This was the first written constitution of the United States but it was eventually ratified due to many complications. |
| Great compromise | The Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise. The delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in Congress. Delegates from states with small populations wanted their states to have the same number of representatives as states with large populations. Otherwise, they figured, they would be under-represented in Congress. So they proposed a system where all states, regardless of population, would have the same number of Congressional representatives. |
| passing the constitution | The constitution was first formed as the articles of confederation but they changed it due to many complications and it is now called the constitution. |
| Adding the bill of rights | The bill of rights was added to the constitution to explain all of the rights that are given to the American citizens. |
| Louisiana purchase | Bought by the Americans from France because France had recently been in war and were in debt so they were willing to sell their land so that they would no longer be in debt. |
| Missouri compromise | The western and the northern states were fighting over if they should or should not have slavery so the compromise was the 36 30 which were the degrees separating the slave states from the free states. |
| The Indian Removal act | This was also known as the trail of tears because the Indians were being forced off of their land so that the white settlers could settle in that place. |
| Mexican American War | This happened because of manifest destiny the Americans wanted the Mexicans land so a war started over who would get it. |
| California gold rush | The idea of getting rich quick was a great idea so many people started to go to California because they heard that there may be gold there. This caused the gold rush. |
| homestead act | The act that gives people the right to land if they would live and work the land that they were staying on for a small fee and many people took that opportunity. |
| industrial revolution | The time where many machines were being made because people had more time to waste. |
| Underground railroad | a non literal railroad the was a rout that many slaves would take during the night to escape slavery. |
| Seneca falls convention | a convention or group of people that met together and discussed the rights of women and what they wanted for them. |
| compromise of 1850 | Attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. |
| Kansas Nebraska act | This created the legal boundaries of Kansas and Nebraska. |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | Dred Scott was a slave born in a slave state and then moved to a free state and went to court saying that he should be free but the court decided against him. |
| fugitive slave act | This was a law that allowed the capture of runaway slaves. But the problem was that they would also kidnap free saves and sell them into slavery. |
| Bleeding Kansas | This was talking about the border war between Missouri and Kansas against pro slavery and anti slavery people. |
| Civil War | The civil war was the north part of America vs the Southern part of America over weather or not we should have slavery. |
| emancipation Proclamation | The proclamation that Abraham Lincoln sighed to free the slaves. |
| Civil War Draft Riots | During the civil war the union was short on soldiers so they had the draft where they draw names of people eligible to go into battle and they have to go. But those eligible men were getting angry that they had to go to war so they started non peaceful riots to try and end it. |
| Gettysburg address | This was a speech given by president Abraham Lincoln talking about how the union needs to win the war for all of those who died at Gettysburg. |
| reconstruction | This was a time period after the civil war where all of the destruction from the war was getting fixed. |
| Civil war amendments | 13th amendment- abolished slavery 14th amendment- gave citizenship to African Americans 15th amendment-gave African American men the right to vote. |
| completion of the transcontinental railroad | The completion of the transcontinental railroad allowed the expansion west to be much easier. |
| Indian wars | After the civil war people were looking for more and more land and the only way to get that land was by taking it from the Indians but they would not go down without a fight so that Is how the Indian wars started. |
| gilded age | This was all about money and big wigs and many social problems in the US after many of the major wars were over. |
| populist party | the group that represented the common folk like farmers and protect them from the big wigs and major monopolies. |
| Plessey vs Ferguson | Plessy attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violated the “separate but equal” railroad accommodations. Those using facilities not designated for their race were breaking the law. |
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