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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A small change in a document. Amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution |
| Assimilate | To learn something and understand it completely. |
| Bias | Comparing two things unfairly |
| Bicameral | To have two branches |
| Blockade | When a group of people would shut down all ports to keep supplies from coming in. |
| Boomtown | A town that gains popularity at a fast pace |
| Capitalism | The belief that everyone should earn and keep what they make. |
| Captain of Industry | Someone who has good business skills and uses them wisely. |
| Checks and Balances | Every branch has to approve what the other branches do. |
| Congress | House of Representatives and Senate |
| Due Process of Law | Receiving fair treatment while going through the Judicial system |
| Economics | The business world concerning money. |
| Emancipated | Having no more restrictions and being free. |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote to. |
| Enumerated | A list of things |
| Federalism | National Government |
| Forty-niners | A California Gold Rush prospector. |
| Free Enterprise | when a business is competitive |
| Habeas Corpus | The right to have a lawyer and a fair trial when arrested. |
| Industry | The process of making products by machines. |
| Judicial | court system and a judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | A terrorist organization who wanted "white power" |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief to move west. |
| Martyr | Someone who is murdered or assassinated because of their religious beliefs. |
| Monopoly | To much control from one company |
| Nomadic | moving around |
| override | to reject something |
| popular sovereignty | The people are the ones who give power to the government |
| ratify | made official |
| Radical | extreme |
| Republicanism | political party from the North |
| Robber Baron | Someone who often is unfair and cruel to their workers |
| Rural | The countryside |
| Separation of powers | The legislative, executive, and judicial governments |
| Social Darwinism | The richest will survive. Like survival of the fittest. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supreme court | The highest judicial court |
| Tarrif | A tax or toll |
| Taxation without representation | When England made the colonists pay taxes even though the colonies didn't have a say in it. |
| Trade Union | Also called labor unions. A group of people who work together to protect their rights. |
| Urban | City or town |
| Veto | When a president or governor rejects a bill |
| Thomas Jefferson | Drafted the declaration of independence |
| Andrew Jackson | Indian removal act |
| Sacagawea | Helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
| James K Polk | Mr. Manifest destiny. Gained most land for the U.S. |
| Frederick Douglass | Slave that escaped and wrote an autobiography |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote uncle tom's cabin. |
| John Brown | Lead the raid on harpers ferry |
| Robert E. Lee | Commanded the confederate army during the Civil War |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president of the United States who got impeached |
| Susan B. Anthony | Lead the women's rights movement along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Sitting bull | Chief of Lakota tribe who started the ghost dance which ended in the last major battle between white southerners and Native Americans. |
| George Custer | Fought in the battle of little big horn as part of the 7th cavalry regiment and died |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Became extremely rich off of railroads during the california gold rush. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Became rich off of oil |
| Andrew Carnegie | Made his money off of steel |
| Jamestown | One of the first cities founded in America. Known for growing tobacco. |
| Plymouth | Known for the pilgrims moving there |
| Lexington and Concord | First battle of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | Citizens could ship goods west |
| The Alamo | We lost that battle and it was used as motivation for other battles. |
| Harpers ferry | John brown and other slaves planned to raid harpers ferry for weapons but they failed. |
| Fort Sumter | First battle of the civil war |
| Gettysburg | Turning point of the war. Showed the Union that they could win. |
| Appomattox court house | Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant |
| Ford's theater | Where Abraham Lincoln got shot |
| Promontory point, Utah | First transcontinental railroad |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | United States immigration station |
| Declaration of independence | A document saying the Colonies wanted to be free from England |
| Revolutionary war | Between the colonies and Great Britain during the 1700's. Occurred because colonies wanted their independence from Great Britain |
| Articles of confederation | Early US constitution that had failed |
| Great compromise | When we formed the house of representatives and senate. One based on population. The other based on equality |
| Passing of the Constitution | Some people wanted a bill of rights (first ten amendments in the constitution) and others did not. |
| Adding the bill of rights | First ten amendments of the constitution. People wanted something that declared their rights. |
| Louisiana purchase | United States gained a ton of land for an extremely cheap amount of money from France |
| Missouri compromise | When we seperated North from South |
| Indian removal act | Andrew Jackson wanted land that Native Americans were on so he made them walk away for many miles. |
| Mexican-American war | War between Mexico and America to see who gets Texas |
| California gold rush | When many people came to california to look for gold |
| Homestead act | Government would give people land at a low cost |
| Industrial revolution | When machines were being invented at a fast pace. Increased the need of workers. |
| Underground Railroad | An escape path that slaves would often take |
| Seneca falls convention | Where the first women's rights movement meeting was held |
| Compromise of 1850 | Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. |
| Kansas- Nebraska act | When kansas and Nebraska was one territory and they couldn't decide if they should allow slavery so they split. |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | Court case where they were deciding whether or not Dred Scott should be considered a citizen |
| Fugitive slave act | When former slaves in the north could be taken to an owner even if they were free |
| Bleeding Kansas | When people were fighting over whether kansas should be a free state or a slave state |
| Civil war | A war between the North and South about the conflict of slavery. |
| Emancipation proclamation | A document declaring that all slaves are free |
| Civil war draft riots | Four day eruption of violence in NYC |
| Gettysburg address | Inspirational speech spoken by Abraham Lincoln |
| Reconstruction | A time period in which the U.S. was trying to get the North and South back together. |
| Civil war amendments | Abolished slavery, granted African Americans citizenship, and gave African Ameeicans the righ to vote. |
| Completion of transcontinental railroad | Cities and towns formed around it. |
| Indian wars | Native Americans and white southerners would often fight |
| Gilded age | Time period of intense economic growth |
| Populist parties | Political party that represented common people |
| Pleassy vs Ferguson | Court case determining laws that have to do with seperation of blacks and whites |
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