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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | An added part to the constitution that gives the people rights or takes away rights |
| Assimilate | Adapting to your surroundings or new culture |
| Bias | Having an opinion towards something because you do it or know it |
| Bicameral | part of the legislative branch, having two branches |
| Blockade | Blocking a port/entrance on water |
| boomtown | Towns growing fast in population and economic growth |
| capitalism | private ownership/own profit |
| Captains of industry | Worked hard to grow a company and cares more about growing a business not about having money |
| Checks and Balances | All three parts of the government can check on the other to make sure they are doing their jobs right |
| congress | national branch for the United Sates government |
| due process of law | everyone gets the same process in every court case no matter the severity of the case |
| economics | productions and consumption and levels of wealth |
| Emancipated | to free |
| enfranchise | giving the right to vote |
| Enumerated | not listed |
| Federalism | power divided between national state and local issues |
| Forty-niners | California gold rush |
| free enterprise | competition in smaller businesses |
| habeas corpus | can be seen before a judge earlier |
| Industry | productions of goods and sevices to people anywhere |
| Judicial | interperates the laws passed by the legislative |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group that wanted white supremacy in all of the nation and did not like African Americans |
| Manifest Destiny | Americans wanting to move westward |
| Martyr | Willing to die for their religion |
| Monopoly | leaving no competition |
| Nomadic | Move around a lot. Hunter gatherers |
| override | to have control over something |
| Popular sovereignty | the people are the main source of power in the government |
| Ratify | approval of a document or law |
| Radical | extreme point of view on something |
| Republicanism | belief that people in office should be voted in |
| Robber Barons | Want all the money they can get, don't care about their workers/ working conditions |
| Rural | Living outside of the city. The "country" |
| Separation of power | Each of the three branches have specific jobs and they can check on the other branches to make sure they are doing their job |
| social darwinism | the theory of natural selection happening all the time in the world |
| suffrage | the right to vote in any political election |
| Supreme court | Highest federal court in the United States. Has control over all other courts in the nation |
| Tariff | A tax that needs to be paid on a particular import or export |
| Taxation without representation | Slogan created during the 1750-60s which eventually led to the revolutionary war |
| Trade Union | Group of workers fighting towards a goal of interests or working conditions |
| Urban | Part of the city or town |
| Veto | A president can veto a law which rejects the law from passing |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the U.S, wrote Declaration of Independence, bought Louisiana purchase |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the U.S, moved Native Americans onto reservations |
| Sacagawea | Native American, helped lewis and clark navigate through the Louisiana purchase |
| James Polk | 11th president of the U.S, acquired the most land out of any president |
| Frederick Douglass | Slave, Wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist, Wrote Uncle toms cabin |
| John Brown | Tried to arm slaves with weapons, very violent |
| Robert E Lee | General of the Confederate army during the civil war |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president of the U.S, President during reconstruction, |
| Susan B. Anthony | Part of women right movements |
| Sitting Bull | Native American who was killed at wounded knee |
| George Custar | Killed in battle against Native Americans at little big horn, U.S general |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | had a railroad empire/ made steel |
| John Rockefeller | Made a fortune off of oil during gilded age |
| Andrew Carnegie | Gave lots of money away, found a cheaper way to produce steel, produced steel, made a fortune |
| Jamestown | First permanent english settlement in the united states, founded in 1607 in Virginia |
| Plymouth | established in 1620, held the first Thanksgiving |
| Lexington and concord | first military actions during the Revolutionary war (America V.S. England), happend in 1775 |
| Erie Canal | Canal built from Albany to Buffalo connecting the Hudson river with lake Erie, completed in 1825 |
| The Alamo | Battle in the Mexican American war where a large group of Mexican soldiers attacked a smaller group of American soldiers |
| Harper Ferry | Where John Brown was captured when trying to arm slaves with weapons |
| Fort Sumter | First battle of the Civil war |
| Gettysburg | Major battle fought in Pennsylvania in 1863, lots of people from both north and south died, Union won this battle |
| Appomattox courthouse | Where the Civil War officially ended |
| Fords Theater | Where Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Booth |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Once the workers finish the transcontinental railroad they celebrated here |
| Ellis island and Angel island | Immigrants would travel to these islands when coming to America |
| Declaration of independence | Established the United States as its own nation |
| Revolutionary War | The war America gained their independence from Britain |
| Articles of Confederation | Original U.S constitution that was ratified in 1781 but failed due to being weak |
| Great Compromise | provided all states (small or large) the same amount of representation in the senate |
| Passing of the constitution | Ratified on June 21st, 1788 giving Americans the freedom from Britain, made the United States its own nation |
| Adding the bill of rights | collected name for the first 10 amendments |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson bought this for cheap from France, Whole middle section of the United States |
| Missouri Compromise | Made all the states south of Missouri slave states and north free states splitting the United States in half |
| Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson proposed the idea of moving indians out of their native land and move them onto reservations further and further westward |
| Mexican-American war | War fought over the western part of the United states (cali, navada et..), U.S. won gaining more territory |
| California Gold Rush | Happened 1848-1855, gold was discovered in California, helped westward expansion |
| Homestead act | Offered western land for free, Abraham Lincoln hoped this would help westward expansion |
| Industrial Revolution | Big businesses, Produce things faster/cheaper, lasted about 80 years |
| Underground Rail Road | Slave escape route that Harriet Tubman would guide escaped slaves through, not a railroad or underground |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Convention to discuss women rights/civil rights, held in seneca falls |
| Compromise of 1850 | Made states vote whether they wanted to be slave or free states, made the Missouri compromise pointless |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed states to decided slave state or free through popular sovereignty |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | Dred Scott was told he was property therefor had no rights and could not leave Sanford |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Southern slave owners could come to the north and take their run away slaves back to the south legally |
| Bleeding Kansas | Period of violence during settling of the Kansas territory |
| Civil War | Union vs Confederate, over slavery or not slavery, Lots of death in battles |
| Emancipation Proclamtion | Freed all of the slaves on January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed this document |
| Civil War Draft Riots | Riots after drafts that rich people could pay out of, made poorer people angry that rich could pay to get out of going to war |
| Gettysburg address | Lincolns speech given after Gettysburg, famous speech,remember the soldiers who died here |
| Reconstruction | Time period after the civil war that tried to put the nation back together |
| Civil war amendments | 13th: abolished slavery, 14th: granted citizenship to all African Americans, 15th: allowed all African American males the right to vote |
| Completion of Continental railroad | First railroad to go from west to east, allows westward expansion |
| Indian Wars | during indian removal some indian tribes refused to leave their native lands angering the white making fights break out normally ending in indian losses |
| Gilded age | Big businesses, monopolies, working unions formed from poor working conditions |
| Populist party | Represents the common folk, especially farmers, shows what the common people want |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | Louisiana required that blacks and whites must have separate railway cars |
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