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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A change to a law, bill, constitution Etc. A correction, addition, or deletion. |
| Assimilate | To change/absorbed someone to your culture. |
| Bias | Having a preformed opinion of something |
| Bicameral | Two branches of a body such as congress |
| Blockade | To stop goods or people from flowing from a particular area or to a particular area |
| Boomtown | A very rapidly growing and prosperity |
| Captain of Industry | A person whose acquisition of wealth benefits the economy and others. Leaders, philanthropist. |
| Checks and Balance | A system in which in branch of the government holds power over the others to insure none becomes too powerful. |
| Congress | The Legislative Branch, Divide into House of Representatives (population) and Senate ( Equal). Makes Laws and changes them. |
| Due Process of Law | Fair and equal treatment for citizens in the judicial system. |
| Economics | Financial decisions, study of production and consumption of goods and services. Study of money |
| Emancipated | To free from bondage such as slavery and servitude. |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote. Blacks in 15th Amendment. Women in 19th Amendment. |
| Enumerated | Name specifically, listed. |
| Federalism | The distribution of power between the central power and the other small parts. Example: Federal Government and States Power is Equal. |
| Forty-Niner | A gold miner who moved to California in 1849. |
| Free Enterprise | When Private Businesses are able to freely compete. People are able to create or sell private business. |
| Habeas Corpus | Part of Due process... The right to see a judge or have a trial. |
| Industry | Systematic labor. Manufacture of products. In a particular field |
| Judicial | Courts, serving justice, judges. Branch of U.S. Government |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of white supremacists who used fear and violence to oppress blacks. Reconstruction Era Civil Rights Era |
| Manifest Destiny | The Belief that all of America from east coast to west was destined to be claimed by the U.S. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for a belief such as a religious one |
| Monopoly | Controlling the industry. Only Business to buy from. |
| Nomadic | People who move from place to place never settling. |
| Override | When Congress passes a law over the president with a 2/3 vote. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The People give the government its power. |
| Ratify | To confirm To make a bill a law |
| Radical | Extreme beliefs or opinion |
| Republicanism | Where the people elect the government officials. |
| Robber Baron | A greedy and ruthless business man who destroys the competition, pays workers low amounts, and keeps all the money. |
| Rural | Agriculture County side Away from city. |
| Separation of Powers | Each branch of the government has different powers and responsibility's. |
| Social Darwinsim | The theory that there are winners and losers in life and that the smart people become successful while the less intelligent people don't |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in the land, interprets laws and the constitution. |
| Tariff | A tax of goods and services. |
| Taxation Without Representation | Being Taxed without having a voice in the government. |
| Urban | A city. Dense area of large amounts of people. |
| Veto | A presidential power that allows him to stop a law from being passed. Can be overridden by Congress with 2/3 vote. |
| Trade Union | A group of people from the same industry fight for fair pay Good benefits safety |
| Tomas Jefferson | Wrote Deceleration of Independence Founding Father 3rd President Louisiana Territory Purchase |
| Andrew Jackson | War Hero Fought for Common People Indian Removal Act |
| James K. Polk | Mr.Manifest Destiny Gained Texas Oregon Territory California Territory |
| Sacagawea | Served as Guide and translator for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. |
| Frederick Douglass | Famous Abolitionist Wrote Auto Biography Ran Anti-Slavery News Paper Gave Public Speechs |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin |
| John Brown | Violent Abolitionist Bleeding Kansas Harpers Ferry Raid |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of Main Confederate Army Amazing Strategist |
| Andrew Johnson | Pardoned South Black Codes Violated Tenure of Office |
| Susan B. Anthony | Abolitionist Woman's Suffrage Newspaper |
| Sitting Bull | Lakota holy man and chief Fought the US Defeated Cluster at Little Bighorn |
| George Custer | Lieutenant and Calvary commander Lost to Sitting bull At the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Robber Baron and Captain of Industry Made initial money of shipping Became ultra rich off Railroads |
| John Rockefeller | Robber Baron and Captain of Industry Oil and Kerosene Richest Man ever |
| Andrew Carnegie | Robber Baron and Captain of Industry Steel Monopoly Came from Nothing |
| Jamestown | First Permanent Settlement Grew Tobacco Capital of Colony |
| Plymouth | Came for Religious Freedom Thanksgiving Worked with Indians |
| Lexington and Concord | First Battle of Revolutionary War Shot heard around the world |
| Erie Canal | Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY Connected Albany to great lakes Largest canal of the time |
| The Alamo | Martyr's Texas vs. Mexico Gave Hope |
| Harper's Ferry | Raided By John Brown Divided the nation Huge Armory |
| Fort Sumter | First Battle of Civil War Union Surrendered |
| Gettysburg | Union Victory Stopped Confederate Invasion Bloodiest Battle of War |
| Appomattox Courthouse | General Robert E. Lee surrenders End of Civil war |
| Ford's Theater | President Lincoln shot and dies John Wilkes Booth escapes |
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| Angel Island | Angel Island : Hub of Asian Immigrants West Coast |
| Ellis Island | Ellis Island: Hub of European Immigrants East Coast |
| Decleration of Independence | Written in 1776 Letter to King of England Stating that The colonies are now free and why they left. |
| Revolutionary War | War Between the American Colonies and Britain over whether the colonies could be independent. |
| Articles of Cenfederation | The First Constitution of The U.S.A. Lacked power to enforce laws Was replaced |
| The Great Compromise | The Compromise that made the legislative branch bicameral. Splitting the power between the House (population) and Senate (Equal) |
| Passing of Constitution | Federalist wouldn't let it be passed without a bill of rights. All states had to agree. Lots of Compromise. Such as 3/5th compromise |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | Federalists refused to let constitution pass without a bill of rights. They eventually got one added. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Tomas Jefferson purchased a huge piece of land from the French for extremely cheap. Greatly expanded the US |
| Missouri Compromise | A Slavery Compromise that stated any state below Missouri would be slave and any state above would be free. Also allowed Maine to join union |
| Indian Removal Act | Also know as The Trail of Tears, it moved 5 tribes from the south up to Oklahoma. Forcing thousands of Indians to walk thousands of miles through the cold and starved them. |
| The Mexican-American War | Started mainly due to Texas joining the US. The US Won and claimed the South-Western Territory. |
| California Gold Rush | Gold was discovered in California and thousands upon thousands flooded to California to try to strike it rich. Boosting California's Population hugely. |
| Homestead Act | It gave 150 acres of free land to anyone who moved out west. Greatly spreading out the population. Helped populate new land faster. |
| Industrial Revolution | The period in which the US turned from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial society. |
| Underground Railroad | A series of people and safe house that lead slaves up out of the south into the north and later on into Canada. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The First Woman's suffrage gathering. Where the movement began. |
| Compromise of 1850 | It banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. Admitted California Let Utah and New Mexico Territory's choose through popular sovereignty whether to be free or slave |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | Let Kansas and Nebraska Join as free or slave based on popular sovereignty. Abolished the Missouri compromise line. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Ruled that African Americans weren't Citizens and therefore couldn't sue. And that the federal government couldn't decide whether a state was free or slave. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | It allowed slaves in the north to be caught and brought back to the south. Later on it was amended to punish people for housing slaves. And allowed for anyone to be deputized to catch a slave. |
| Bleeding Kansas | A period in which Kansas was deciding free or slave. Northers and Southerners moved there in hopes of impacting the vote. During this time mass violence broke out between Anti and Pro slavery factions. |
| Civil War | When most of the southern states seceded and formed a new country. The Union and the Confederacy battled. The Union won and forced the south back into the Union as Free states. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A Presidential Order freeing all slaves in "rebel state". |
| Civil War Draft Riots | The common folk became angry due to the Rich buying their way out of the war and Blacks taking their jobs. |
| Gettysburg Adress | A speech made by Abraham Lincoln that inspired the union to keep fighting and end the war. |
| Reconstruction Era | The Period in which the Union tries to re-integrate the south into the north along with getting ride of racial segregation and stopping the violence. |
| Civil War Amendments | 13th: Abolished slavery 14th: Gave Blacks citizenship 15th: Gave Black Males Right to vote |
| Completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad | This completion lead to the spread of culture, beliefs and commerce to be trade from east to west and back. It allowed the trade of manufactured and raw goods to be traded. |
| Indian Wars | These were the armed conflicts that occurred between Indians and the US. These wars with the Massacre of Wounded Knee |
| Gilded Age | A period of artificial economic growth. Right after the civil war. Wealth was all owned by select few men. |
| Populist Party | A party formed it Kansas that fought against corrupt Robber Barons who bribed the government. It was made up of the common man. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | It was the court case that ruled that Separate But Equal was fair and constitutional. |
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