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Amendment Something added to the Bill of Rights
Assimilate To fully understand something
Bias Favoring something more over something else
Bicameral Government
Blockade To block a certain area from anything going in or out
Boomtown A town that suddenly grows in population
Capitalism Everyone is unique and gets paid a different amount of money depending on their job
Captain of Industry A rich person who is fair to their workers with their money and typically donates a great amount of money to public places
Checks and Balances Keeps the government from getting to much power and limits what they can do to the country
Congress Apart of the legislative branch and has two houses: Senate and House of Representatives
Due Process of Law States have their own rights but must follow the laws
Economics The amount of money in an environment
Emancipated To free
Enfranchise To give the right to vote
Enumerated To name one by one
Federalism The principal of government
Forty-Niners Another name for the gold searchers in the California Gold Rush
Free Enterprise People or businesses compete for profit
Habeas Corpus To put a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court
Industry Making raw materials into their final product
Judicial Brought to court or a judge
Ku Klux Klan An organized group that terrorized blacks after the Civil War
Manifest Destiny The idea of expanding North America Westward
Martyr A person killed because of their religious beliefs
Monopoly Controlling supplies or trade in a business
Nomadic To move around a lot
Override A decision
Popular Sovereignty The people can choose who they want their representative to be
Ratify To make official
Radical Something extreme
Republicanism There can be a certain amount of representatives per state
Robber Baron A rich person who doesn't treat their workers right and doesn't give them a fair pay
Rural The country side
Separation of powers 3 branches of government and one doesn't have more power over the other
Social Darwinism Survival of the fittest in social ways
Suffrage The right to vote
Supreme Court The highest judicial court in a country or state
Tariff A tax or duty to be paid
Taxation Without Representation People of certain places were taxed by a law
Trade Union A group of workers that stand for their rights
Urban The city or town
Veto To say no to or to reject
Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Andrew Jackson He founded the Democratic Party
Sacagawea She helped Lewis and Clark on their Corps of Discovery
James Polk He expanded the US from the East Coast the the West Coast
Frederick Douglass He was a former slave and he had to fight through the whites to run away to the North and was successful
Harriet Beecher A white female abolitionist who wrote the book: Uncle Tom's Cabin which is about slavery
John Brown A white male abolitionist who used violence to solve the slavery problem
Robert E. Lee He was a white general in the Civil war for the confederate states and his army lost against the Union
Andrew Johnson He was the Vice President of Lincoln and when Lincoln died and Johnson was president, he did not like the idea of equality between whites and blacks
Susan B. Anthony She was a women rights sufferagist and she was the leader of a group of women
Sitting Bull A man who led a Native tribe against the United States
George Custer He was a well-known soldier who fought in the Civil War with his army
Cornelius He was a Captain of Industry because the was a philanthropist and made his money off of railroads and shipping
John Rockefeller He was a Captain of Industry because he donated money to public places and payed his workers fairly and he made money off of oil.
Andrew Carnegie He was a rich man who was a philanthropist and made his money off of steel
Jamestown It was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas and they grew tobacco there
Plymouth People took the Mayflower there and is the second permanent English settlement
Lexington and Concord It was a battle in the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere told the town that the British were coming
Erie Canal A man made canal that stretched from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York
The Alamo A battle between the US and Mexico and they fought over Texas even though they wanted to be apart of the US
Harper's Ferry John Brown led a group of men to raid the Harper's Ferry and was defeated
Fort Sumter Fort Sumter was a place that was surrounded and was blockaded from anything going in and out until either everyone died or gave up
Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln gave a very famous speech there and it stated that the soldiers should fight hard and win so that the men who died didn't die for nothing
Appomattox Courthouse At that courthouse was where the surrender of the army of northern Virginia surrendered and the Union ended up winning
Ford's Theater This place is a theater where they preform plays and when Abraham Lincoln was watching a play there, a man named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln
Promontory Point, Utah It is where the Lucin Cutoff intersects the east coast of the peninsula
Ellis Island and Angel Island This is where the immigration station was for immigrants that were coming into the United States
Declaration of Independence It stated our independence from Great Britain
Revolutionary War It was a war between the US and Britain and it happened because we wanted our independence from them
Articles of Confederation It was the United States first constitution that didn't have enough info to be a very good country
Great Compromise It was a compromise where big and little states would have about equal amounts of representatives
Passing of the Constitution It was when the United States "final draft" of the constitution was passed and we had rights of the people and things that people could not do and they were illegal
Adding to the Bill of Rights Whenever something was added to the bill of rights, it was called an amendment. It usually stated a right that the people of America had
Louisiana Purchase It was a big area of land that was purchased for very little money and it helped a lot with the idea of Manifest Destiny
Missouri Compromise It had to do with slavery and made an invisible line with the US in half stating that there was slavery in the south and Freedom in the North
Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) Andrew Jackson signed it and it stated that the Indians/Native Americans had to move to Oklahoma where there was no good soil and it was the Trail of Tears because the Indians were very sad while they were on the trail of moving
Mexican-American War It was a War between Mexico and the United States and we fought over Texas and whoever won the war got to keep Texas
California Gold Rush People found that there was lots of gold in the state of California so people rushed there and mined for gold to get rich
Homestead Act The government was giving away free land in the West for people in the East and lots of people took the offer because they needed more land than they had originally
Industrial Revolution It was a time period in which technology was getting improved fast and things were being built like machines
Underground Railroad It was a pathway to the North from the South and they were houses that runaway slaves could stay in to get to the North to be free and the leader of it was Harriet Tubman
Seneca Falls Convention It was a place where Women met up into a Union and talked and fought for their voting rights and other rights
Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay made the compromise and it stated that slave trades would be abolished in 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act It was an act where Kansas and Nebraska got the choice to be a free or slave state. Kansas chose to be a free state and Nebraska chose to be a slave state
Dred Scott v. Stanford A slave master brought a slave to a free state Illinois where it was illegal so Dred Scott took his master to court and he lost so he was still a slave
Fugitive Slave act All runaway slaves had to be returned to their masters
Bleeding Kansas The pro-slavery people fought against the anti-slavery people in a war
Civil War A huge war consisting of many battles, North v. South
Emancipation proclamation All slaves in the rebellious states were free
Civil War Draft Riots Blacks were drafted and is was a cause of the Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address It was like a "halftime talk" of a very big battle given by Abraham Lincoln and he said the people who died shouldn't die for nothing
Reconstruction It was an idea to bring the North and the South back together after the Civil War
Civil War Amendments The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were made during the civil war and were named the Civil War Amendments
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad It was completed on May 10, 1869 in Promontory, Utah
Indian Wars There were many conflicts between America and Indians so they led to wars
Gilded Age It was where there were rich people and the bad ones were Robber Barons and the good ones were Captain of Industries
Populist Party Lots of people went in debt because there were malfunctions happening a lot
Plessy v. Ferguson It was a court case that everyone is "Separate but Equal" between the blacks and whites
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