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Flashcards by Ian Sirkovic, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ian Sirkovic
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| Question | Answer |
| VOCABULARY | DEFINITION |
| Amendment | A change or modification to the constitution or legislation |
| Assimilate | When something has been accepted as a part of culture by a large group |
| Bias | To favor one thing over another.(Professor Snape was biased towards Slytherins, because he himself was in Slytherin House and was Head of house) |
| Bicameral | A system of government a legislation made up of two houses or branches. (if Hogwarts only had Slytherin and Gryffindor it would be a bicameral school) |
| Blockade | To block a flow of supplies to a certain country or group. ( Usually a war tactic) |
| Boomtown | A town that grows rapidly because of a large outburst of Prosperity. (California in 1949) |
| Capitalism | A system of government based off of competition. (Winners and Losers) |
| Captain Of Industry | A person who has an important job in industry and has an influence over company and national planning (A Modern Day Captain of Industry would be Steve Jobs) |
| Checks And Balances | A system of government divided into many branches or houses and all of them have equal power over each other. An Opposite Example is Shown In the Picture |
| Congress | Bicameral legislature of the United States government |
| Due Process of Law | When a person is arrested they must be told what they have been accused with or else any evidence found against them cannot be used in a court of law. |
| Economics | The science that deals with the making, distributing, selling and purchasing of goods and services |
| Emancipated | Freed from bondage |
| Enfranchise | To be given the right to vote |
| Enumerated | (The Definition is short but true) Not listed |
| Federalism | A system of government in which all the three branches of government are separated in duties but maintain an equal power over eachother |
| Forty-Niners | A person searching for gold in the California gold rush of 1849. |
| Free Enterprise | The freedom that allows private companies to compete for their profits with certain guidelines/limits set by the U.S. Congress. |
| Habeus Corpus | The right to a trial in a court of law. Meaning in Latin: "you shall have the body"(Body refers to court) |
| Industry | The part of an economy that consists of manufacturing enterprises. |
| Judicial | Of or relating to a judge or court of law. |
| Ku Klux Klan | The white supremacist group that took root during the age of Reconstruction. They were known for dressing in white robes and parading through the countryside forcing all black people to vote for the democratic party and hanging them if they refused. |
| Manifest Destiny | |
| Martyr | When someone is killed based off of the religion that they believe in (In other words a Hate Crime) |
| Martyr | Someone who has been killed because of their religious beliefs. (Holocaust) |
| Monopoly | When one company has control over one area of commerce and the creation of any business that may create competition is strictly forbidden by the company. |
| Monopoly | When one company or business has taken over one particular area of commerce and no other businesses that may cause competition are strictly forbidden by the company. |
| Nomadic | Anything that involves constantly moving from one place to another (A Nomad) |
| Nomadic | Anything that involves moving from one place to another place often. |
| Override | Using Your Authority to Object to Ones Decision. |
| Popular Sovereignty | A system of government in which the power of the government is decided by the people |
| Ratify | A fancy word for approve |
| Radical | To have an extreme political opinion that many people do not share |
| Republicanism | A system of government that follows the principles of low taxes, a limited government, free enterprise, and personal freedom. |
| Robber Baron | A wealthy person who makes money in dishonest and immoral ways People may become a robber baron by being given too much money too young |
| Rural | Refers to the life of a person living in the countryside |
| Separation of powers | A system of government in which the government is divided into different branches, each being responsible for different things |
| Social Darwinism | States that those who can adapt to change the most are the ones who will become the most successful people. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supeme Court | The highest court of law in the U.S. made up of 9 justices. (I know there are only 5 justices in the picture and they aren't even on the Supreme Court but you get the "picture") |
| Supreme Court | |
| Tariff | A tax on imported goods and services |
| Taxation without representation simple definition | When a tax is imposed without a representative expressing the views of the people it is imposed on |
| Trade Union | A group of workers who protest to negotiate fair wages, work hours, and working conditions |
| Urban | Of or relating to the characteristics of the city such as people and lifestyles |
| Veto | The power a president has to refuse a bill that has been proposed by legislation by not signing it to become a law |
| PEOPLE | SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE |
| Thomas Jefferson | One of America's Founding Fathers, Author of the Declaration of Independence. and the third President of the United States |
| Andrew Jackson | Was known for being a common man, the seventh President of the United States, and caused the Trail of Tears (Also died on my birthday. So cool) :D |
| Sacagawea | A famous native american woman who led Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to map America. |
| James K Polk | The Eleventh President of the United States who helped America gain more land through winning the Mexican-American war. |
| Frederick Douglass | Was a former slave, a writer, an abolitionist, and the first black person to hold a high power rank in the U.S. government |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that opened the eyes of the north to what was really happening in the south. Abraham Lincoln said "So your the woman who started this great war." when he first met her |
| John Brown | An american abolitionist who believed that slavery could only be ended through violence and armed slaves and led a raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Robert E. Lee | Was the president of the confederacy from 1862 to 1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | America's 17th president. Was Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the first to be impeached, and vetoed all 10 bills proposed by congress to end slavery |
| Susan B Anthony | |
| Susan B Anthony | One of the leaders of the women's right movements. If it wasn't for her America might not have so many women with high ranking jobs |
| Sitting Bull | Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota man who was a tribal chief people during years of resistance to the United States government He was disliked by the U.S. and considered an outlaw |
| George Custer | George Armstrong Custer was a Union cavalry commander in the Civil War and the American Indian War.Custer was a student at West Point Academy. He graduated last in his class. The battle of Little Big Horn is known as his last stand |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | One of the captains of industry. He made his money by buying railroads (The picture shows the railroads he owned) |
| John Rockafeller | One of the captains of industry He made his money through oil Apples net worth is $56.6 billion John Rockefeller's net worth is $340 billion That's over 6 times the net worth of Apple Disney's Scrooge McDuck is based on him |
| Andrew Carnegie | The face of the saying "Rags to Riches". He started out as a poor scottish immigrant and became a captain of industry through the production of steel. He wanted to help people with his wealth and built over 2500 libraries and schools. The picture shows him pouring tons of money into Carnegie schools |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The 18th president of America. He fought back against the Ku Klux Klan. His presidency came to an end because the people he had working for him were being bribed |
| PLACES & WHAT THEY ARE KNOWN FOR | PICTURE |
| Jamestown The first American settlement (had big problems with cannibalism) | |
| Plymouth The place where the pilgrims who came on the Mayflower settled The first Thanksgiving was held here | |
| Lexington and Concord The Battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. | |
| Erie Canal The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that built to create a water route from New York City, the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Great Lakes. It flows into the Hudson river to reach the Atlantic | |
| The Alamo A major loss for Texas in the Mexican- American war. It was also known as San Antonio | |
| Harper's Ferry Federal Armory seized by John Brown in 1859 with the goal of arming slaves | |
| Fort Sumter The fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired | |
| Gettysburg It was one of the biggest turning points of the Civil War for the Union. It lasted for three days and was one of the deadliest killing about 46,000 and have 8,000 casualties | |
| Appomattox Courthouse The place where the Confederate Army surrendered to the Union army | |
| Ford's Theatre The place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe | |
| Promontory Point, Utah The place where the Transcontinental Railroad was finished It is marked with a golden nail | |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island Ellis Island is considered the gateway to America where many immigrant were checked for diseases and other things. Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were brought in for questioning. | |
| EVENTS | SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE |
| The Declaration of Independence | The thirteen colonies in America had been at war with Britain for about a year when the Second Continental Congress decided to officially declare their independence from the British. They would no longer be a part of the British Empire and would fight for their freedom. |
| The Revolutionary War | The war when America gained it's independence from Britain and became it's own country The most important war in American history |
| Articles of Confederation | The first constitution for America, but they could not be enforce so they are often referred to as a dog with no teeth |
| Great compromsie | A compromise that said the amount of representatives a state had depended on the states population instead of it's size |
| Passing the Constitution | Whe the Constitution was passed it took a two thirds vote from the senate and then a 3 fourths vote from the states to pass it |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | Adding the Bill of Rights was a constant power struggle between the federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalist wanted a strong government while the Anti-Federalists wanted a weak government with certain rights that could not be taken from them. In the end the Anti-Federalists won and the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution |
| The Louisiana Purchase | Was the biggest amount of land that America has ever bought. It more than doubled the size of America. |
| Missouri Compromise | Stated that every state above the 36 30 line was a free state and any state below it was a slave state |
| Indian Removal Acts | A bill that was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 that let him give people land that belonged to the Indians |
| California Gold Rush | A time period lasting from 1848 to 1855 that began when James W. Marshall found gold while constructing a mill in California. People from all over the world came to California to make their fortunes |
| Homestead Act | The Homestead Act encouraged Western expansion by giving settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small fee and had to live there for five years before they actually owned the land |
| Industrial Revolution | The time period when America when from an agricultural nation to an industrial nation |
| Underground Railroad | A network of safe-houses and secret routes used in the 19th century by slaves to escape to the North to gain their freedom |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first meeting of the suffragists where they demanded all women have the same rights that men had including the right to vote |
| Compromise of 1850 | A compromise that required all runaway slaves to be returned to their owners and ended the slave trade |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | Let Kansas and Nebraska vote to be a slave or free state and also repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1850 |
| Dredd Scott V Stanford | When Dredd Scott's owner took Dredd with him to a northern state Dredd said he was free and he sued his master. His master counter-sued and Dredd counter-sued too and they went back and forth like this until the case went to the Supreme Court where Dredd lost the case |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Hundreds of slaves had been running away to the free states and as a result the southern economy was failing. So when the Compromise of 1850 was passed it also included the Fugitive Slave Act and said that all freed slaves in the North had to be returned to their masters |
| Bleeding Kansas | A number of violent fights between Abolitionists and Border Ruffians that were fought to decide whether Kansas would be a free or slave state |
| The Civil War | The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history. Over 600,000 soldiers died in the war. The fighting started at Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865 when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. |
| Emancipation Proclamtion | The proclamation stated "That all persons held as slave are, and henceforward shall be free." It said all slaves were free but some slave owners kept their slaves |
| Civil War Draft Riots | The poor were upset that the rich people could pay $300 to not have to fight in the Civil War so they rioted for four days to make the government make everyone have to fight in the war |
| Gettysburg Address | The speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the battle of Gettysburg. It is known as the greatest speech in American history even though it only had 273 words, was written on a napkin, and only lasted for 2 minutes |
| Reconstruction | Also known as the Second Civil War the Reconstruction Era was the time period after the Civil War when America became one nation again |
| Civil War Amendments | 13th Amendment Outlawed Slavery 14th Amendment Declared the everyone in America was a citizen 15 Amendment Allowed all black African American men to vote |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | The Transcontinental railroad allowed American's to transport their goods farther for a cheaper cost. This allowed businesses to grow dramatically and increased America's economic status |
| Indian Wars | The series of battles over land that was fought between Native Americans and European's settlers |
| Gilded Age | An era of extreme economic growth in America that lasted from the 1870's and ended in the early 1900's |
| Populist Party | The Populist party started in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the railroads, bankers, processors, corporations, and the politicians. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | Plessy was a white man living in Louisiana and was considered black due to his genealogy. He was arrested because he was "black" and was riding the white bus |
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