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| Question | Answer |
| amendment | alteration or change to a bill or the constitution. |
| assimilate | adapt or adjust to new places, people, or customs. |
| bias | feeling or opinions about different groups of people before you know them or have met them |
| bicameral | 2 branches or houses in a government. |
| blockade | closing off a certain place, typically a harbor or port. |
| boomtown | a town that grows quickly or rapidly. |
| capitalism | system in economics where wealth is gained by effort and determination. |
| captain of industry | head of a business or company that gain money because of hard work, intelligence, and kindness towards other. is known to treat employees well with fair pay. |
| checks and balances | system used so the government can't gain too much power over the citizens. |
| congress | legislative body of the US government that contains the senate and house of representatives. |
| due process of law | law meaning no citizen can be denied his/her rights. |
| economics | social science that helps deal with production, distribution, and consumption of different goods and services. |
| emancipated | freeing of slaves. |
| enfranchise | give someone citizenship and/or the right to vote. |
| enumerated | set things up individually, one by one. |
| federalism | political system where the government is divided into different units. |
| forty-niners | over 100,000 people from the US and Europe moved to California, seeking for gold in 1849. |
| free enterprise | private businesses are able to operate on their own and make their own profit. |
| habeas corpus | anyone can get a trial before going to court. |
| industry | producing goods and services in the country or community. |
| judicial | system of court and or judge. |
| ku klux klan | secret organization of people who were against rights for African Americans and abolitionists. they handled their opinions in a very violent way. |
| manifest destiny | american's thought it was their destiny to expand west during the 19th century. |
| martyr | someone killed for their beliefs. |
| monopoly | economic firm that has almost no competition. people charge way over the normal price for their products. |
| nomadic | moving around a lot. |
| override | multiple people have the power to reject or cancel another persons opinion or idea. |
| popular sovereignty | people in a community get to elect their political leaders by voting. |
| ratify | accept a law or bill |
| radical | extreme or over exaggerated. |
| republicanism | idea where the people get to decide how their government is ran and who runs it. |
| robber baron | someone who gains money by being rude to employees and customer and paying workers very little. |
| rural | out in the open, mostly farmland and few neighbors. |
| separation of powers | different bodies of the government, executive, legislative, and judicial, so no one can have too much power. |
| social darwinism | the amount of your money and other goods are based off survival of the fittest. |
| suffrage | the right for women, or anyone, to vote. |
| supreme court | the highest court in the judicial branch with the most power. |
| tariff | tax put on goods and/or services. |
| taxation without representation | people were taxed on different goods without anyone to stand up for them or represent them. |
| trade union | group of workers would get together and protest about pay or treatment. |
| urban | big city with manufacturers and other companies. usually very populated and small housing. |
| veto | reject and law or bill. |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the united states and author of the declaration of independence. |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US and the first "common man" president. also signed indian removal act. |
| Sacagawea | helped lead Lewis and Clark on their journey west. |
| james polk | 11th president, know as "Mr. manifest destiny" |
| Frederick douglass | former slave, abolitionist, and author. |
| harriet beecher stowe | author of uncle toms cabin and abolitionist. |
| john brown | extreme abolitionist that lead harpers ferry raid. |
| Robert E. lee | general of the northern Virginia army and one of the main confederate generals in the civil war. |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincolns vice president and president after his assassination. also known as the veto president because he vetoed many laws and bills. |
| susan b anthony | woman's rights suffragist in the early 1900s |
| sitting bull | tribal chief that lead his tribe to rebel against the white settlers taking over their land. |
| George custer | Us officer and cavalry commander during the American-Indian wars. |
| Cornelius vanderbilt | one of the men who "built America" and made his wealth off of railroads and shipping. |
| John d Rockefeller | is said to have been the richest man ever to live and made his money off of oil. |
| Andrew carnegie | one of the men who "built America" and was the first to mass produce steel. |
| jamestown | the first settlement in the US, made their profit off of selling tobacco. |
| plymouth | one of the first settlements in the US and known for the first thanksgiving feast. |
| Lexington and concord | the british attacked the US at Lexington and concord. this was one of the many events that lead up to the revolutionary war. |
| erie canal | built in new York around 1817, this canal was used for shipping goods and people. |
| the alamo | a battle against the Mexicans and Texans in the texas revolution. the Mexicans won, killing many. |
| harpers ferry raid | a raid led by john brown who planned to get slaves to rebel against their masters, this plan failed and brown was soon executed after. |
| fort sumter | first battle of the civil war which landed in a confederate victory. |
| gettysburg | first major battle of the civil war. its known as the bloodiest battle ever because of the insane amount of casualties. |
| Appomattox courthouse | this is were they signed the treaty to end the civil war |
| ford theatre | location where Lincoln was assassinated by john wilkes booth while watching play. |
| promontory point, Utah | place where they completed the first continental railroad. |
| ellis island and angel island | 2 places of arrival for immigrants. ellis island was where European immigrants arrived in new York and Asian immigrants arrived at angel island in san fransisco. |
| declaration of independence | a letter written to the british by the US stating that we were leaving their country and would no longer be under their power. |
| revolutionary war | war against the US and great Britain where the US was fighting for our freedom and to become our own country |
| articles of confederation | original constitution that didn't give the government enough power against the people. it was soon replaced by the constitution we have now. |
| great compromise | compromise saying the smaller states and larger states would have the same amount of representatives in the sentate (2) and an amount to match their population in the house. |
| passing of the constitution | passed in 1788, the constitution gave the basic, most important rights to the people of the united states. |
| adding the bill of rights | the first 10 amendments added to the constitution in 1791 |
| Louisiana purchase | largest purchase of land ever made at once in the US purchased by Thomas Jefferson. |
| Missouri compromise | made so there could be no slavery in states above the 36 30' parallel line and slavery anywhere below it. |
| indian removal acts/ trail of tears | act signed by Andrew Jackson sending all native Americans on the new US territory to reservation with awful living conditions/ |
| mexican- American war | war with the Mexicans and americans where the US was trying to get texas, which was mexicos land at the time. |
| California gold rush | people hurried to California in the mid 1800s to gain money by finding gold. |
| homestead act | gave people land in the homestead for usually little or no cost |
| industrial revolution | time where manufacturers and factories became more common and places would mass produce products. |
| underground railroad | system of houses and stations where "conductors" would lead escaped slaves to freedom. |
| Seneca falls convention | one of the first conventions concerning women's rights, mainly on voting. |
| compromise of 1850 | 5 different bills created by henry clay trying to make peace between the north and south. |
| Kansas- Nebraska act | act made so any state could decide on if there was slavery or not by popular sovereignty. |
| dred scott vs sanford | a court case where a slave (scott) was moved with his master to a free state and thought he should be freed. he lost the case because his master had purchased him and scott was his property. |
| fugitive slave act | any escaped slave in the north had to be sent back to the south or else the people helping them and the slave would face many consequences. |
| bleeding kansas | border war against Kansas (jayhawkers) who where against slavery and Missouri (bushwhackers) who were for slavery. |
| civil war | one of the bloodiest wars in US history concerning slavery and bringing the south back into the union. |
| emancipation proclamation | proclamation made by Lincoln freeing all slaves in rebelling states during the war. |
| civil war draft riots | many people were getting drafted to war, the common people where rioting because the rich could pay to get out of it but most people didn't have that kind of money. |
| Gettysburg address | motivating speech made by Abraham Lincoln after the battle of Gettysburg. its known as one of the greatest speeches in history. |
| reconstruction | time after the civil war where everyone was trying to rebuild and come back from all the destruction of the war. |
| civil war amendments | 13th- abolished slavery 14th- gave slaves citizenship 15th- gave slaves the right to vote |
| completion of transcontinental railroads | in 1869, the first transcontinental railroad was complete and helped ship people and goods across America. |
| indian wars | wars with the Americans vs native Americans who where wanting off the reservations and onto the land that was rightfully theirs. |
| gilded age | a time in US history during the late 1800s and early 1900s where the US had more money then ever and mass production was becoming much more common. |
| populist party | party created by the common people, mostly farmers, during the gilded age who where against the democrats and republicans. |
| Plessy vs ferguson | when Plessy was arrested he was put in the colored car instead of white, despite his light skin, because he had black ancestors. this case went to court and was the fall of jim crow laws. |
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