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| Question | Answer |
| amendment | An added a law to the bill of rights |
| assimilate | take in and understand ideas |
| bias | to favor one thing or the other |
| bicameral | having two branches |
| blockade | to block out don't allow to get in or out |
| boomtown | a town that that grows rapidly due to sudden wealth |
| capitalism | when everyone is not equal wealth and haves private business |
| caption of industry | someone who rules the business industry because of skill |
| checks and balances | no one branch of government is powerful |
| congress | the bicameral legislature of the federal government un the U.S. |
| due process of law | everybody has the same process in which if they gat arrested they are treated the same |
| economics | social science of production consumption and distribution |
| emancipated | freed from bondage |
| enfranchise | to give one the right to vote |
| enumerated | not listed |
| federalism | power is granted from national to state to local |
| forty niners | people who lived in California in 1849 |
| free enterprise | The freedom of private businesses |
| habeas corpus | to have rights in court |
| industry | economic process concerned with taking raw material and making the in to finished goods |
| judicial | branch of government that determines weather a person has done something illegal or not |
| ku klux klan | colt in the south after the civil war that believed in white supremacy |
| manifest destiny | the belief of expanding America east to west cost |
| martyr | someone who dies for religious belief |
| monopoly | where one company is too big to where there is no compotition |
| nomadic | characteristic of nomads |
| override | to say no to a presidents veto with a 2/3 majority vote |
| popular sovereignty | government is created by the people by elected represented |
| ratify | to takeaway from the constitution |
| radical | extreme |
| Republicanism | where one person runs the state electFed by the people |
| Robber baron | a man who gets his wealth through unfair ways and is unfair to his workers |
| Rural | Less populated area more country like |
| separation of powers | no branch of the government i s to powerful |
| social darwinism | only the richest and the most prepared makes it |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| supreme court | the highest court consisting of 9 judges |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| taxation without representation | the British taxed the Americans while they had no say on it |
| trade union | when workers go on strike they form a trade union |
| urban | more populated more city like |
| veto | when the president says no to a bill proposed by congress |
| Thomas Jefferson | one of the founding fathers who mad e the first declaration of independence |
| Andrew jackson | 7th present concreted to be a peoples presedent did the infdian removal act |
| Sacagawea | helped lewis and Clark of their trip to find the northwest passage |
| James Polk | the 11th president got the most land for the U.S. |
| fredrick douglass | A slave who escaped and helped others after that he wrote a news paper and an auto biography |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | an abolitionist who wrote a book called uncle toms cabin |
| John Brown | led a raid on Harpers Fairy who died on the raid |
| Robert E. Lee | was a general for the confederate army |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president to Abe Lincoln was a bad president |
| susan b. anthony | was a suffragist who was trying to get woman rights |
| sitting bull | stood up to the American Army and would not assimilate to U.S. culture |
| george custer | was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars |
| Cornelius Vanderbuilt | Made his money off the railroad was a billionare |
| Andrew carnegie | made his money off steel |
| Rockefeller | the richest man in U.S. history got his money off the oil industry |
| jamestown | settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas |
| Plymouth | 2nd settlement in the colonys at Plymouth rock |
| lexington and concord | the first battle in the revolutionary war was here |
| erie canal | in new york that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the hudson river to buffalo |
| Alamo | battle ground in the texas revolution all the texans were killed by the spanish |
| harpers ferry | john brown led a rain on this place which was unsuccessful for john |
| fort sumter | first battle in the civil war when the confederates attacked sumter which was a union fort in south Carolina |
| gettysburg | turning point of the civil war for the union where they beat the confederates afterwords lincoln giving the gettysburg address |
| Appomattix courthouose | where general lee surrendered to the union force is considered the ending of the civil war |
| fords theater | where lincoln was assassinated |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Promontory Summit where the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was officially completed |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | Red Scott and his master moved to a free state Dred took him to court saying because he was i a free state he should be free it went to the supreme court but the ruling says he was still a slave |
| ellis and angle island | e- where Europeans came to a- where the Chinese game to |
| declaration of independence | what we wrote to great Briton declaring that we were done with them |
| revolutionary war | the war we fought and won agist Briton after the declaration of independence |
| articles of confederation | first constitution was week and did not enforce the laws so it was replaced with the current one |
| great compromise | compromise between the big and small states the smaller ones wanted an equal congress making the senate bigger states wanted population based congress making the house of reps |
| passing of constitution | when the constitution was passed |
| adding the bill of rights | when we made the first bill of rights it was the first 10 amendments granting the people individual rights |
| Louisiana purchase | bought far france for 15 million included Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado |
| Missouri compromise | compromise that regulated slavery in the country's western territories |
| indian removal act | act forcing all the natives to move into the Oklahoma territory |
| mexican american war | war between the mexicans we won the war giving us the mexicans land |
| california god rush | began on January 24, 1848 when gold was found by James marshall at utter's mill in coloma california |
| homestead act | wanting those who came land in kansas of 160 acres |
| underground railroad | path made by Harriet Tubman to help save the black slaves to help them escape |
| seneca falls convention | convention hosted for the suffragist wanting equal rights for the women |
| compromise of 1850 | senator henry clay introduced a series of resolutions on january 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between north and south. As part of the compromise of 1850, the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in washington, d.c. was abolished |
| kansas Nebraska and | Kansas and Nebraska got to choose weather they got to be a slave or free state mention happened between Kansas and Missouri |
| fugitive slave act | act saying that that any run away slaves had to go back to there masters even if he was in the north |
| bleeding kansas | was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery free-Staters and pro-slavery states |
| civil war | the civil war was a war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery sates the anti-slavery states came out on top and slavery was no more |
| emancipation proclamation | set all the slaves in states of rebellion |
| civil war draft riots | the poorer people were getting mad because the richer people could buy there way out so the poorer people where attacking the rich |
| Gettysburg Address | given after the battle of Gettysburg honoring the dead saying not to give up |
| reconstruction | time period after the civil war trying to bring back and gain the south back |
| civil war amendments | 13-freed slaves 14-gave citizenship 15-gave blacks right to vote |
| completion of continental railroad | started from the west cost to the edge of Nebraska and joined together then both meet |
| indian wars | were the multiple conflicts between the united states government and the native peoples of north america from the time of earliest colonial settlement until 1890 |
| guided age | Panera of rapid economic growth |
| populist party | party started by mostly farmers for the common people not the rich who control congress |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under separate but equal |
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