Flashcards
14th WYNTK
Cards in this deck (100)
- 1AmendmentSomething that is added to the bill of rights.
- 2AssimilateTo fully understand
- 3BiasWhen someone is giving more favor to another then someone else
- 4BicameralA legislative body
- 5BoomtownA town that suddenly grows in population
- 6BlockadeTo block something a certain area from going in or out
- 7CapitalismA system that has losers and winners
- 8Captain of IndustrySomeone that build a corporation and gives fair pay to his/hers workers
- 9Checks & BalancesIt is a system were the 3 governments checking each other and gives balance of power
- 10CongressApart in the legislative branch that has two houses: senate and house of reps.
- 11Due ProcessStates have there own rights but must also follow the governments rights.
- 12EconomicsAmount of money in there area and its growth
- 13EmancipatedTo be free
- 14EnfranchiseTo give the right to vote
- 15EnumeratedMentioning separately
- 16FederalismA system of government
- 17Forty-NinersSomeone in the Gold Rush
- 18Free EnterpriseA system were private business operates in competition
- 19Habeas CorpusA person that is under arrest and then they get to see a judge or jury
- 20IndustryA place that makes stuff from raw material
- 21JudicialThe court or a judge
- 22Ku Klux KlanA group of people that don't like blacks being free and want white supremacy
- 23Manifest DestinyWhen white settlers moved West
- 24MartyrA person who fights for there religious cause
- 25Monopolywhere a single company owns all the market for there product
- 26NomadicOf relating to or characteristics of nomads
- 27Overridewhen something gets overturned
- 28Popular SovereigntyPeople give the government power
- 29RatifySign or give formal consent
- 30RadicalExtreme
- 31RepublicanismRepublicans
- 32Robber BaronSomebody that doesn't give there workers fair pay and not good working condition
- 33RuralCountry
- 34Separation Of PowersIn the three branch the branches are separated
- 35Social DarwinismThe belief of losers and winners
- 36SuffrageSomeone that was for women's right to vote
- 37Supreme COurtThe highest court
- 38TariffTax or duty to be paid on a particular class
- 39Taxation Without RepresentationBoston tea party
- 40Trade UNionWorkers that help people to make safe working conditions
- 41UrbanCity
- 42VetoWhen the president doesn't like the bill he'll ____ it
- 43Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state second vice president and, as the third president
- 44Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual. Shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel died at the Hermitage; Jackson apparently believed the negative attacks had hastened her death.
- 45SacajaweaLead settlers through america and translated for them
- 46James PolkBought Louisiana territory
- 47Fredrick DouglassWas a black writer
- 48Harriet Beecher StoweWrote Uncle Toms Cabin
- 49John BrownWas in charge of the Harper's Ferry Raid
- 50Robert E. LeeBest general in civil war
- 51Andrew JohnsonAlmost got impeached
- 52Susan B. AnthonyWomen's right activist
- 53Sitting BullLast Indian to fight in a war against america
- 54George CusterGeneral who killed many Indians
- 55Cornelius VanderbiltInvested in railroads and was captain of industry
- 56John RockefellerMade his money off of steel
- 57Andrew CarnegieMade his money off of oil
- 58JamestownFirst american settlement
- 59PlymouthSecond american settlement
- 60Lexington and ConcordThere was a battle here
- 61Erie CanalProposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east.
- 62The AlamoThe battle of the Alamo happened here
- 63Harper's FerryIn October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harper's Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown
- 64Fort SumterFirst battle in civil war
- 65GettysburgThis is where the bloodiest battle happened
- 66Appomattox CourthouseThis is were the civil war officially ended
- 67Fords TheaterThis is where Lincoln got assassinated
- 68Promontory Point, UtahPromontory Summit, Utah is the location where the United States' first Transcontinental Railroad was finished on May 10, 1869. The two railroads that joined were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
- 69Ellis and Angel IslandFrom 1910-1940, Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated
- 70Declaration Of IndependenceGave freedom to america
- 71Revolutionary WarBritish and Americas war
- 72Articles of ConfederationFirst written constitution of the United States. Stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states before was it was ratified on March 1, 1781.
- 73Great CompromiseLarge and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States
- 74Passing ConstitutionAfter Congress proposes an amendment, the Archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 106b.
- 75Adding Bill of RightsThe Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as the first ten amendments on December 15, 1791
- 76Louisiana PurchaseBought from France
- 77Missouri Compromisefederal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories
- 78Indian Removal Actpassed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal
- 79Mexican-American Warmarked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico
- 80Gold RushPeople were finding gold in California
- 81Homestead Actencouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
- 82Industrial Revolutionwas the transition to new manufacturing processes
- 83Underground Railroada network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States
- 84Seneca Falls ConventionAt the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States
- 85Compromise of 1850January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
- 86Kansas Nebraska Actcreated the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement
- 87Dred Scott v. SanfordScott lost and blacks couldn't sew a white
- 88Fugitive Slave ActIf a black was caught in the North they would have to return them
- 89Bleeding Kansasa series of violent political confrontations in the United States
- 90Civil WarWar against North and South
- 91Emancipation Proclamationdeclared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
- 92Civil War Draft RiotsRioters torched government buildings and, on July 15, fought pitched battles with troops.
- 93Gettysburg Addresdedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War
- 94Reconstructionhistory immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
- 95Civil War Amendmentsare the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War.
- 96Completion of Transcontinental RailroadIt allowed goods and people to travel quicker and safer
- 97Indian WarsIndians would get in wars with america but it was really the other way around
- 98Gilded Age30 yrs after Civil War
- 99Populist Partymovement was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties
- 100Plessy v. FergusonIn 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the case and held the Louisiana segregation