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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | changes added to a legal document |
| Assimilate | to understand completely |
| Bias | favoring one thing over another, causing an unfair opinion |
| Bicameral | bi: two cameral: house two houses, the senate and the house of representatives |
| Blockade | shutting off supplies from an area |
| Capitalism | competition between companies and you own your stuff not the government |
| Captain of Industry | Genius men during the Gilded Age who worked for what they received and respected their workers and paid/treated them fairly. |
| Checks and Balances | a system to make sure that one branch isn't more powerful than the other, each one has equal power and none can overtake the others. |
| Congress | United States government, consists of two house, The Senate and The House of Representatives. |
| Due Process | the state must honor all rights to a person |
| Economics | our societies money, people, business, distribution, and consumption of products |
| Emancipated | free from all bonds |
| Enfranchise | to be given the right to vote |
| Enumerated | listed |
| Federalism | separation of powers |
| Forty-niners | someone who went to California to get Gold in the California Gold Rush of 1849 |
| Free Enterprise | a business runs against another free of State control |
| Habeas Corpus | right to be seen before a judge |
| Industry | production of something that helps a community |
| Judicial | the branch that determines whether a law is just or not |
| Ku Klux Klan | a racial group of ex-confederates who terrorized the free blacks in the south |
| Manifest Destiny | westward expansion |
| Martyr | someone who is killed because of their religious beliefs |
| Monopoly | when a business eliminates all competition and can raise their prices all they want |
| Nomadic | not staying in one place |
| Override | to reject or not approve |
| Popular Sovereignty | people are the source of the governments power |
| Ratify | to approve |
| Radical | extreme |
| Republicanism | 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. |
| Robber Baron | during the Gilded Age, someone who paid unfair wages to their employees and gave them harsh work hours. They took from the people and were very greedy. |
| Rural | the country: located outside of the city |
| Separation of Powers | when each branch of government has their own job judicial: interpret the laws executive: enforce the laws legislative: make the laws |
| Social Darwinism | some people will survive some will not, the strongest, most intelligent will survive and the weak minded and weak will not be successful |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest court |
| Tariff | tax on imported products |
| Taxation Without Representation | the people were taxed and they had no say in anything that was being decided |
| Trade Union | a group of countries that work together to get supplies from each other in exchange for something |
| Urban | the city |
| Veto | to say no to a bill |
| Thomas Jefferson | -the 3rd president -responsible for the Louisiana Purchase |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in the 'New World' |
| Andrew Jackson | -7th American President -created the Trail Of Tears -for the common man |
| Sacagawea | Guided Lewis & Clark on the journey through the U.S. |
| Boomtown | when a town 'booms' financially and becomes very wealthy |
| James Polk | Gained the most land for the United States -11th president |
| Frederick Douglass | ex-slave who escaped to the north, wrote a book and for the newspaper the 'Liberator' |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Toms Cabin which swayed peoples thought on slavery |
| John Brown | white American abolitionist who believed armed fighting was the only way to solve problems |
| Robert E. Lee | 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 Johnson | 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. First president to be impeached. |
| Susan B. Anthony | fought for womens rights |
| 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. |
| Cornelius Canderbilt | Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known as the 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. |
| Plymouth | Plymouth holds a place in American history, folklore and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown. |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the American Revolution |
| 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 | a 13-day siege, launched an assault on the Alamo Mission killing all of the Texian defenders. |
| Harper's Ferry | the armory for the Confederate soldiers that John Brown led a raid at |
| Fort Sumter | The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired |
| Gettysburg | considered the most important battle in the Civil War, the Union defeated the Confederates with boosted the Norths confidence |
| Appomattox Courthouse | where General Lee Grant surrendered to the Union, ending the Civil War |
| Ford's Theater | the theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at by John Wilkes Booth |
| Promontory Point Utah | where the continental railroad was connected, connected with a gold spike |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | where immigrants came to get checked to see if they were okay to come into the country |
| Declaration of Independence | the letter that we created that separated us from Britain |
| Revolutionary War | the war that we fought against Britain for our freedom that we ended up winning |
| Articles of Confederation | was the first written constitution of the United States, however it had no enforcement to it so it quickly failed |
| Great Compromise | a deal between Congress that the house of reps would be based off of a states population and the Senate only has two members from each state |
| Passing the Constitution | the constitution states the basic rights of citizens so it helped set down the laws of America |
| Adding the Bill of RIghts | a bill is added to the Constitution, which states a right to the people, the Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments added to the constitution |
| Louisiana Purchased | biggest purchase of land from France, helped keep the idea of Manifest Destiny alive |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri would become a slave state but nothing above the border states could become a slave state |
| Indian Removal Act | issued by Andrew Jackson, removed all Indian tribes from Florida and located them on a reservation in the west. Many of the died on the way (trail of tears) |
| Mexican-American War | fighting for land (Manifest Destiny) America took all of Mexico's american land and forced them to stay in Mexico. |
| California Gold Rush | 1849, gold was found and the word spread quickly. People around the U.S. flocked to California to strike it rich. |
| Homestead Act | the government was giving away free land in the west to create more farming opportunities to feed the growing cities. |
| Industrial Revolution | after the civil war, most Rural places were shifted into Ural cities, the time of the machines and factories. |
| Underground Railroad | secret system of houses that helped runaway slaves get to safety in the north |
| Seneca Falls Convention | the first woman's rights meeting/petition |
| Compromise of 1850 | the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade was abolished. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | the people would decide whether these states were a slave or free state, but you had to own land to vote so there was many openings for new lands for settlement |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Scott sued unsuccessfully in the Missouri courts for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man |
| Fugitive Slave Act | people were required to help look for runaway slaves if they were asked and if the declined they would be fined |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a result of Kansas-Nebraska Act. Many people were moving there just to vote. When the free side started winning, the slave side became violent and started raiding the towns |
| Civil War | war between the North and the South because of slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | all the slaves in the slave states were freed |
| Civil War Draft Riot | people were selected to fight in the civil war and no body wanted to so they started rioting so they would stop drafting |
| Gettysburg Address | most famous speeches issued by Abraham Lincoln, emancipation proclamation |
| Reconstruction | following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union |
| Civil War Amendments | 13- abolishing slavery 14- granting citizenship to ex-slaves 15- giving ex-slaves the right to vote |
| Completion of Trans-Continental Railroad | the railroad the connected the east coast to the west coast. Connected in Promontory Point, Utah |
| Indian Wars | Indian Tribes fighting the Americans because they were being forced to assimilate to their culture |
| Gilded Age | era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West |
| Populist Party | A third-party movement that was created in the 1890s and drew support especially from farmers |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" |
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