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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | An addition or change to a document |
| Assimilate | Taking in any information and understanding it clearly |
| Bias | against someone or something |
| Bicameral | having legislation in two branches |
| Blockade | the act to block off an area from people or goods entering or leaving |
| Boomtown | a town that grows rapidly from sudden prosperity |
| Capitalism | an economic and political system which is controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state |
| Captain of Industry | business people who are very successful and powerful |
| Checks and Balances | This is a system used so all branches will always be considered equal to one another |
| Congress | The national legislative branch of a country |
| Due Process of law | A system that gives fair treatment to the Judicial Branch |
| Economics | Branch of social sciences that is dealt with the distribution, consumption and productions of goods and services. |
| Emancipated | freed, from slavery or bondage |
| Enfranchise | to give citizenship and the right to vote |
| Enumerated | list one by one |
| Federalism | the federal part of government |
| Forty-niners | Someone who went to California during the Gold Rush in 1849. |
| Free Enterprise | A system in which a private business works freely and is in competition with other businesses. |
| Habeas Corpus | A law requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
| Industry | economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories |
| Judicial | Of, by, or appropriate to a court or judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society organized in the South after the Civil war organized for white supremacy by terrorism |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that the US should expand its territory from the East coast to the West coast |
| Martyr | Killed because of a persons religion or beliefs |
| Monopoly | Possession or control of the supply or trade in a service |
| Nomadic | Anything that has to do with moving around constantly |
| Override | If president veto's a bill it can still become a law if two-thirds of both houses vote to override it |
| Popular Sovereignty | People are the source of the government's power |
| Ratify | to approve |
| Radical | Group of Northern congressman who favored using the Federal Government's power to create a new order in the South and promote full citizenship to free African Americans |
| Republicanism | People that elect their political representatives |
| Robber Baron | Cruel, ruthless business men who would stop at nothing to achieve wealth, often accused of working people to hard |
| Rural | Country, off the beaten path |
| Separation of Powers | A rule stated that the three branches of government has its own responsibilities |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals |
| Suffrage | Gave the right for mainly women to vote in political elections |
| Supreme Court | The highest judicial court in a country or state |
| Tariff | A tax or duty to be paid on particular imports and exports |
| Taxation without Representation | A situation in which a government imposes taxes on a particular group of citizens, having zero knowledge of it happening |
| Trade Union | Another term used for labor union, which is a union of work throughout age groups |
| Urban | In the city |
| Veto | When the president rejects a bill |
| Thomas Jefferson | Jefferson was the third president, author of the Declaration of Independence and was an American Founding Father. |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president, authorized the Indian Removal Act, known as "Common Man", Military General and was very racist. |
| Sacagawea | Smart young women, helped communicate with Native Tribes, very good with navigation, was a huge help with the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| James Polk | Known as "Mr. Manifest Destiny", elected president in 1844, added more territory to the U.S. than any other president. |
| Frederick Douglass | Freed Slave who freed himself, captured real meaning what America really is, wrote a Bibliography about his life as being a slave. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist, Wrote a book about Slavery which has an affect on our world, hated that slavery was apart of our world. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist, thought the only way to end slavery was to overthrow the institution, which didn't work out the way he wanted it too. |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, surrendered in 1865. |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president, served after Lincolns Assassination in 1865, lasted four years as president. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Played a huge role in the women's rights movement, believed in equality between all. |
| Sitting Bull | Native American Chief under the Sioux Tribes, led peoples resistance against the U.S. |
| George Custer | Officer who served in the Civil War, goal was to identify a site for a fort to protect Indian land, stuff went down during the Little Bighorn Battle. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Wealthiest Man in the US, built wealth, from railroads and shipping, owned many ships and provided them to the Military, also played a big part in the Union Blockade. |
| John Rockefeller | Wealthy man, bought every oil line in the US as long with every railroad, gave money to schools, medical institutes, churches and charities. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Wealthy man, built some of the first railroads, invented steel, wanted too see a better world so he helped out by giving money to build tools and helpful buildings for others. |
| Jamestown | Located in Virginia which was the first permanent English Settlement in America. |
| Plymouth | English Colonial Venture in North America from 1620-1621. |
| Lexington and Concord | Area where British Soldiers were told to go and capture leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, they were also sent to go and seize gun powder. |
| Erie Canal | Canal in New York, that ran about 360 miles on the Hudson River. |
| The Alamo | Santa Anna (Mexico's President) tool an army to San Antonio to take a fort called "The Alamo." |
| Harper's Ferry | Located in West Virginia, starting place of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, site of the John Brown raid which precipitated the Civil War. |
| Fort Sumter | The first shots were fired here which started the American Civil War |
| Gettysburg | The most famous battle of the civil war happened in Gettysburg, Lincoln also said his Gettysburg Address speech. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Here, Confederate General Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops to Union General Grant. |
| Ford's Theater | Theater in Washington D.C. where Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. |
| Promontory Point | Southernmost Point of the Peninsula where mountains project into the Northern Great Salt Lake. |
| Ellis Island And Angel Island | Immigration station where immigrants were entering the US. |
| Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson in 1776 signed a document establishing the US as a nation. |
| Revolutionary War | The war establishing American Independence from Britain, first started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord. |
| Articles of Confederation | The first and original constitution signed in 1781. |
| Great Compromise | Citizens were divided because of different beliefs, and the government structure was bad, so they came up with the Great Compromise to solve this. |
| Passing of the Constitution | The Constitution is the "supreme law" of the US which was signed in 1789. |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | Federalists said no and Anti-Federalists said yes to adding these, they were adding when the constitution was signed which was in 1789. |
| Louisiana Purchase | The US bought the Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France. |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase, North of 36, 30'N. |
| Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson passed this act, forcing all Indian Tribes in the South to get off their territories and remove everything and head West. |
| Mexican-American War | A war fought between the US and Mexico, in which the US won and felt that America was accomplishing the Manifest Destiny Expansion. |
| California Gold Rush | Lasted from 1848-1855, when gold was discovered in Coloma, California. |
| Homestead Act | Lincoln signed this act allowing settlers 160 acres of land, if they did two requirements required. |
| Industrial Revolution | Everything was done by hand before the Industrial Revolution and more things were done by machine after. |
| Underground Railroad | Network of secret routes and houses that were available for runaway slaves. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention that discussed the rights of women. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise by Henry Clay that may be known as a delay to the start of the Civil War. A law enforced that Blacks were no longer safe. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | This act allowed Kansas and Nebraska the ability to vote whether to be free or slave states. |
| Dred Scott V. Sanford | This was a case that people were arguing that African Americans are not American Citizens and cannot sue in court. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | This act forced the return of runaway slaves. |
| Bleeding Kansas | The act in which people were fighting over slave and free territory, violence soon erupted and both sides fought for control. |
| Civil War | A war in the same country between citizens |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An order by Lincoln saying that all slaves in areas of rebellion against the US would be free |
| Civil War Draft Riots | This was an act when rich people could pay their way out of the war and poor people couldn't so they were mad. |
| Gettysburg Address | A speech by Abe Lincoln, which was one of the most famous political speeches. This speech encouraged the Union to continue to fight in the war. |
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War in which people were brought back into the US |
| Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) | These amendments were added during the civil war and were designed to ensure the equality for recently freed slaves. |
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | The first railroad that went from East to West, that allowed Expansion to happen |
| Indian Wars | Conflicts between American settlers or the US government and the Natives of North America. |
| Gilded Age | Rapid economical growth |
| Populist Party | This is the third party that represented the common folk |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | This was a decision decided everyone is "separate but equal." |
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