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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | Things added to the constitution that give American citizens more powers and rights. |
| Assimilate | To take in and make as your own. |
| Bias | When someone shows favoritism towards someone or something. |
| Bicameral | Bi means two and cameral means house. two houses of congress/legislature/senate. |
| Blockade | To block out port cities so they cant get or ship anything in or out. |
| Capitalism | Americans use this. The idea of having competition between people and businesses. |
| Captain of Industry | People who are at the top of the business. They are smart and have earned to be where they are. |
| Checks and Balances | To keep one of the branches of government from becoming to powerful. |
| Due process of Law | Fair treatment through the normal judicial system |
| Economics | The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth |
| Emancipated | To be free of something; mostly referring to a slave |
| Enfranchise | Give the right to vote to |
| Enumerated | Establish the number of. |
| Federalism | A method of government that allows 2 or more entries to share control. The United States uses this. |
| Forty-niners | People that came to California for the gold rush in 1849 were called this. |
| Free enterprise | An economic system in which private businesses operate in competition and largely free of state control. |
| Habeas Corpus | A law requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. |
| Industry | Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories. |
| Judicial | Appropriate to a court or Judge. |
| Ku Klux Klan | America's first terrorist group; meant to strike fear to Blacks and showed white supremacy. |
| Martyr | A person who dies for their religion or beliefs. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief of expanding westward |
| Monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity of service. |
| Boomtown | When a city or town booms with in population. |
| Nomadic | When a person moves around a lot. |
| Override | When congress rejects a decision or idea |
| Popular sovereignty | The government is created and sustained by the people. (rule by the people) |
| Ratify | To say yes to or approve. |
| Radical | Extreme. |
| Republicanism | Society or state as a republic where the head of state is a representative of the people who hold popular sovereignty. |
| Robber Baron | Cruel business men who stop at nothing to achieve great wealth. |
| Rural | The countryside or farming towns; opposite of the City or Urban. |
| Separation of Powers | To make the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government are in separate bodies. |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that people are to the same laws of survival of the fittest. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. |
| Tariff | A tax to be paid particularly of imports and exports. |
| Taxation without representation | A slogan of The Revolutionary War, when the British would tax the American colonist. |
| Trade Union | To promote the common interest. Also a labor Union. |
| Urban | The opposite of rural; city life, busy, big. |
| veto | When the president says no to a bill. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Our 3rd president. Made the Louisiana Purchase with the French. |
| Andrew Jackson | Americas first common man president. |
| Sacagawea | Famous Native American who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition as a translator and tour guide. |
| James K Polk | Mr Manifest Destiny, got the most land than any other American president. |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped Slave who wrote about his experiences. First American abolitionist. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Toms Cabin. |
| John Brown | A violent abolitionist, led the terrorist attack in Harpers ferry, Virginia |
| Robert E lee | The Confederate soldier who won the most battles for the South. Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse |
| Andrew Johnson | The president that took over after Abraham Lincoln. Also the president that vetoed the most bills. |
| Susan B Anthony | Leader of the woman's suffrage, partnered up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Sitting Bull | Leader of the Lakota tribe. Was shot and killed at wounded Knee. |
| George Custer | An American General who lost his life at Little Bighorn. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Made his gigantic profit off of transportation. |
| John Rockefeller | The richest man to ever live, made his profit off of oil. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Made this big profit off of steel, first created in Pittsburgh. |
| Jamestown | The first American settlement established in 1607. |
| Plymouth | The 2nd American settlement established in 1620. Had the first Thanksgiving here. |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the Revolutionary war. Paul Revere sounded the alarm "the British are coming" |
| Erie Canal | The first man made water way in America extending across central New York. |
| Alamo | One of the famous historical sites fought at in the Mexican American War. |
| Harpers Ferry | The site where the terrorist attack led by John Brown took place. |
| Fort Sumter | The first battle in the Civil War. The confederates won. |
| Gettysburg | The bloodiest battle in all of the Civil War. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Where Robert E Lee surrendered ending the Civil War. |
| Fords Theatre | Where president Abe Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Pacific railroads join together. |
| Ellis and Angel Island | The ports where immigrants would come into America. Ellis island where the European immigrants and Angel island is where Usually Chinese came. |
| Declaration Of Independence | This document established that America is its own country and not under British rule. |
| Revolutionary War | The war that made America break away from British rule, America won. |
| Articles of Confederation | Document that stated as the 13 colonies first constitution. |
| The Great Compromise | Made for proportional representation in the house, and one representative per state in the senate. |
| Passing of the Constitution | Established Americas national government and fundamental laws and guaranteed citizens certain basic rights. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | To ensure individual freedom and several of which apply to criminal law rights. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Signed by Thomas Jefferson, given by the French gave the U.S. 827,000 sq. miles of land. |
| Missouri Compromise | Ensured that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state. Meant to balance out slave and free states. |
| Indian Removal Act or trail of Tears | Signed by Andrew Jackson, made 5 Indian tribes walk several miles to Oklahoma while many didn't survive on the way. |
| Mexican-American War | The war between Mexico and America settling the dispute over Texas |
| California Gold Rush | In 1849 that spiked miners to come to California over gold. |
| Homestead Act | Federal laws that gave applicant ownership of land, typically at little or no cost. |
| Industrial Revolution | The part in time that spiked rural towns to become into Urban cities. Mostly everything was invented in this time period. |
| Underground Railroad | Organized by Harriet Tubman, a secret organization that gave thousands of slaves the chance to runaway. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first convention that helped woman's suffrage rights led by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton |
| Compromise of 1850 | Creating California as a free state and the rest of Mexican territory voted by popular sovereignty. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | The act that decided whether Kansas and Nebraska would be a free or slave state decided by popular sovereignty. |
| Fred Scott V. Sanford | The decision that stated whether the Missouri slave would be free or a slave in the North. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | The Act that enforced all runaway Slaves to be returned to their owners or the South. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Series of violent political confrontations in the USA involving anti slavery free staters and pro slavery Border Ruffians. |
| Civil War | The war that decided the disputes between the North and South, mostly belonging to Civil War. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Abraham Lincoln, stated that all Slaves are free. |
| Civil War draft riots | Riots disputed when Union and Confederates needed people to fight in the war and were drafted into it. |
| Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincolns famous speech right after the battle of Gettysburg. |
| Reconstruction | Era after the civil war. |
| Civil War amendments | The 13th 14th and 15 amendments |
| Transcontinental Railroad | This made imported goods be able to ship faster and get across the U.S. |
| Indian Wars | Several disputes between Native Americans and Americans. The last won was Wounded Knee. |
| The Gilded Age | The time period after the Industrial Revolution. |
| Populist Party | Created in 1891, a party to help the common people. |
| Plessy V Ferguson | Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities containing to "separate but equal" |
| Congress | Legislature of the federal government of consisting of two houses; the senate and House of Representatives |
| Supreme Court | Highest court in the judicial branch. |
