Flashcards
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Cards in this deck (100)
- 1amendmenta change in a document
- 2assimilateto learn something and understand it fully
- 3biaswhen someone is against something or someone
- 4bicameralhaving two branches in the government or law
- 5blockadesealing off a place so nothing can get in or out
- 6boomtowna city that quickly grows in population
- 7capitalismtrade and businesses are owned by private people or industries
- 8captain of industrysomeone during the industrial revolution who made lots of money in a positive way
- 9checks and balancestwo powers in government which watch over each other to make sure one doesn't become more powerful than the other
- 10congressthe body of the law in a country
- 11due processfair treatment through the judicial branch
- 12economicsthe money branch in the government
- 13emancipatedset free, or liberated
- 14enfranchisegiven the right to vote
- 15enumeratedone by one
- 16federalismsystem of a country
- 17forty-ninersa person in California looking for gold during the gold rush
- 18free enterprisebusinesses operate in competition
- 19habeas corpusthe right to be brought before a judge of arrested
- 20industrya place that's made for making goods in factories
- 21Judicialof a court or judge
- 22Ku Klux Klana secret group formed in the 1800s that showed hate torwards blacks
- 23Manifest Destinythe belief that the U.S should spand from coast to coast
- 24Martyra person who is killed because of their religious or other belief
- 25Monopolytotal control over trade of a service
- 26Nomadica group of a species that travel
- 27Overrideusing ones authority to reject something
- 28Popular Sovereigntythe governments power is controled by the people
- 29Ratifyto give formal consent
- 30Radicalsomeone with extreme ideas
- 31Republicanismthe belief in the people controlling the government
- 32Robber Baronsomeone who gains wealth in ruthless ways
- 33Ruralcountry living or not urban
- 34Separation of Powerslegislative, executive, and judicial powers being seperate
- 35Social Darwinismpeople are bound by the darwinism laws of nature or survival of the fittest
- 36Suffragethe right to vote
- 37Supreme Courtthe highest court in the United States
- 38Tarifftax on imports and exports
- 39Taxation without representationthe people in the american colonies where getiing taxed but had no one to represent them
- 40Trade Unionworkers going on strike to protect their rights
- 41Urbancity or town
- 42Vetoto reject a law
- 43Thomas Jeffersonone of the united state's founders
- 44Andrew Jackson7th president famous for the the indian removal act
- 45Sacagaweashe guided lewis and clark
- 46James Polk11th president known for getting us land such as the oregon territory
- 47Frederick Douglassrun away slave that wrote the north star newspaper
- 48Harriet Beecher Stowewrote uncle toms cabin
- 49John Brownabolitionist that tried to arm the slaves to fight back the racist government
- 50Robert E. Leea general for the c.s.a during the civil war
- 51Andrew Johnsonbecame president after Lincoln was killed
- 52Susan B. Anthonywomens suffragest
- 53Sitting Bullthe leader of the natives at little big horn
- 54George Custerthe leader of u.s soldiers that attacked the natives at little big horn
- 55Cornelius Vanderbiltone of the men who built the u.s
- 56John Rockefellerfounder of the standard oil company
- 57Andrew Carnegiefound out how to mass produce steel
- 58Jamestownfirst permenent english settlement
- 59Plymoutha seaport but started out as a small colony
- 60Lexington and Concordfirst fight of the revolutionary war
- 61Erie Canalcanal from new york to lake erie
- 62the alamoThe Alamo was a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army
- 63Harper’s Ferryis now a historic town but was the place where john brown raided the armory
- 64Fort Sumterwhere the first shots of the civil war were fired
- 65Gettysburgthe bloodiest battle of the civil war
- 66Appomattox Courthousewhere Lee surendered
- 67Ford’s Theaterpresident licoln was shot there
- 68Promontory Point, Utahthe first transcontenintal railroad was built
- 69Ellis Island and Angel Islandimmigration station
- 70Declaration of Independencethe document that started the revoltionary war
- 71Revolutionary Warthe war that gave us our freedom from great britian
- 72Articles of Confederationit was like the first constitution
- 73Great Compromisegave states the right ot make laws
- 74Passing of the Constitutionthe spreme court had to vote on changing the articles of confederation
- 75Adding the Bill of Rightsafter adding the bill of rights, it gave the people rights that the government can not take away
- 76Louisiana Purchasewhere we bought the louisiana territory from the french
- 77Missouri Compromisemade the states equaly divided into none slave states and slave states
- 78Indian Removal Actswhere andrew jackson moved all the natives to reservations
- 79Mexican-American Warwhere we fought mexico for texas
- 80California Gold Rushgold was found in california and people flouded in to find it
- 81Homestead Actmade land in the west payment free
- 82Industrial Revolutionwe went to making things by hand to making them by factories
- 83Underground Railroadhow slaves would run away
- 84Seneca Falls Conventionfirst womens rights convention
- 85Compromise of 1850helped decide what states in the mexican terriotory would be slave and non slave
- 86Kansas- Nebraska Actallowed people to vote for slavery or non slavery
- 87Dred Scott v. Sanfordmade it so that slaves taken to free states are still slaves
- 88Fugitive Slave Actwhere if you find a run away slave you have to return him and punish him
- 89Bleeding Kansasviolence during the setlling of the kansas territory
- 90Civil Warwhere the north was fighting the south because the south wanted slaves and the north didnt
- 91Emancipation Proclamationall slaves in the c.s.a are free
- 92Civil War draft riotspeople didnt think drafting was fair so they formed riots
- 93Gettysburg Addressspeech licoln gave at the battle of gettysburg
- 94Reconstructionafter civil war the north tried to make their relationship with the south better
- 95Civil War Amendmentsmade blacks citizens, gave them the right to vote, and gave them their freedom
- 96Completion of TransContinental Railroadwhen we completed the transcontinental railroad
- 97Indian Warsthe natives fought off the u.s soldiers from taking their land
- 98Gilded Agewhen there was a lot of money coming into the u.s
- 99Populist Partypolitical party for the people
- 100Plessy v. Fergusonmade it so blacks were segragated