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1AmendmentA change in a document
2AssimilateTo change
3BiasTo favor a person or group
4BicameralTwo branches or chambers
5BlockadeNever letting something, and never letting something out
6BoomtownA town that has grown rapidly
7CapitalismMy money. (ownership)
8Captian of industryA person who makes there money and gives it to charities
9Checks and balancesMaking sure no one overpowers one another.
10CongressThe national legislative body of a country
11Due processrespect for the other property of a person
12EconomicsGovernment money
13EmancipatedTo be free from bondage and slavery
14Enfranchiseto vote
15Enumerateda number of things
16FederalismA system of government
17Forty-NinersMen in California looking for gold in the gold rush
18Free EnterpriseA economic system that goes by large and small states
19Habeus Corpuslegal proceeding
20Industryprocessing material and manufactured goods
21JudicialA branch involving local, state, and federal governments
22Ku Klux KlanA society to scare blacks and for white supremacy
23Manifest DestinyTo stretch from coast to coast
24MartyrA person killed for their religious beliefs
25Monoplyto bankrupt or get rid of another buisness
26NomadicA person that is in a tribe and moves place to place without a permanent home
27Overrideto overrule something and not let it go through
28Popular sovereigntyBy the people and for the people, the people are in charge
29RatifySigning and making a document official
30RadicalA person that does extreme things
31RepublicanismGoverning a society or state
32Robber BaronA person who makes money and only cares about himself and is selfish
33RuralCharacteristic of the country side
34Seperation of powersLegislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of government in separate bodies
35Social DarwinismThe laws of evolution
36SuffrageThe right to vote in political elections
37Supreme CourtThe highest Judicial court in a country or state
38TariffA tax or duty
39Taxation without representationtaxing people without their consent
40Trade Unionanother term for a labor union
41UrbanCharacteristic of a city or town
42VetoTo reject something
43Thomas JeffersonHe was our founding father, and wrote the Declaration of Independence
44Andrew JacksonHe was the 7th president and was the one who enforced the Trail of Tears
45SacagaweaShe helped guide Lewis and Clark on their expedition
46James K. PolkHe was Mr. Manifest destiny, and the 11th president
47Frederick DouglassHe was a ex slave and a writer
48Harriet Beecher StoweShe rote a book about the things the south did to slaves
49John BrownJohn Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection
50John BrownJohn Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection
51Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
52Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was the 17th President
53Susan B. AnthonyShe was the leader of the suffrage movement
54Sitting BullThe leader of the Lakota tribe
55George CusterGeorge Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer
56Cornelius Vanderbilthe was the first person to produce steel
57John RockefellerThe first person to produce oil
58Andrew CarnegieHe was the first person to produce steel
59Jamestown
60Plymouth
61Lexington and Concord
62Erie Canal
63The Alamo
64Harper's Ferry
65Fort Sumter
66Gettysburg
67Appomatex
68Fords Theater
69Promontory Point, Utah
70Ellis Island and Angel Island
71Declaration of IndependenceA document made to have liberty and freedom
72Revolutionary warAmerican war of independence
73Articles of ConfederationThe first written constitution of america
74Great compromiseAn agreement the large and small states reached
75Passing the ConstitutionAmendments to the United States Constitution, unlike ones made to many constitutions world-wide
76Adding the bill of rightsDelegates rejected a motion made by George Mason author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 to preface the Constitution of the United States with a bill of rights
77Louisiana Purchase828,000 square miles by the United States from France in 1803.
78Missouri CompromiseIt was a dividing line the divided the north and the south up
79Indian removal actsWhen Andrew made the Indian's move from there land
80Mexican American warwhen the Mexicans and Americans were fighting over land
81California gold rushWhen some people in California found gold and everyone rushed to find some to
82Homestead actproviding settlers 160 acres of public land
83Industrial Revolutionwhen the people were making everything a machine to move faster and produce more
84Underground RailroadWhen Harriet Tubman brought slaves, after she was freed
85Seneca Falls ConvectionThis convention marks a major step toward women's equality
86Compromise of 1850Henry Clay was trying to turn away the crisis against the north and the south
87Kansas Nebraska Actopening new lands for settlement
88Dred Scott v. Sanfordholding that blacks could not be U.S. citizens, exacerbated sectional tensions between North and South
89Fugitive slave actprovided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves
90Bleeding KansasA period of violence during the settling of Kansas territory
91Civil WarA war against the North and south to decide if slavery is legal or non legal
92Emancipation ProclamationA document Abraham Lincoln passed to free slaves
93Civil War draft riotsA four day violence on New York City during the civil war
94Gettysburg AddressA 2 minute speech Abraham Lincoln made after the Gettysburg war
95ReconstructionThe remaining of the war where everyone is repairing the damage of the Civil war
96Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)13th- granted citizenship
14th- Freedom for the blacks
15th- Gave the African Americans the right to vote
97Completion of Transcontinental Railroadthe completion of the transcontinental railroad enabled the American conquest and settlement of the West
98Indian WarsConflicts between the American soldiers and he Native American Soldiers
99Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth
100Populist PartyA third party movement the came up in the 1890's and drew support from farmers
101Plessy v. Ferguson30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad