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| Question | Answer |
| amendment | a change in a document |
| assimilate | to learn something and understand it fully |
| bias | when someone is against something or someone |
| bicameral | having two branches in the government or law |
| blockade | sealing off a place so nothing can get in or out |
| boomtown | a city that quickly grows in population |
| capitalism | trade and businesses are owned by private people or industries |
| captain of industry | someone during the industrial revolution who made lots of money in a positive way |
| checks and balances | two powers in government which watch over each other to make sure one doesn't become more powerful than the other |
| congress | the body of the law in a country |
| due process | fair treatment through the judicial branch |
| economics | the money branch in the government |
| emancipated | set free, or liberated |
| enfranchise | given the right to vote |
| enumerated | one by one |
| federalism | system of a country |
| forty-niners | a person in California looking for gold during the gold rush |
| free enterprise | businesses operate in competition |
| habeas corpus | the right to be brought before a judge of arrested |
| industry | a place that's made for making goods in factories |
| Judicial | of a court or judge |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret group formed in the 1800s that showed hate torwards blacks |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the U.S should spand from coast to coast |
| Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other belief |
| Monopoly | total control over trade of a service |
| Nomadic | a group of a species that travel |
| Override | using ones authority to reject something |
| Popular Sovereignty | the governments power is controled by the people |
| Ratify | to give formal consent |
| Radical | someone with extreme ideas |
| Republicanism | the belief in the people controlling the government |
| Robber Baron | someone who gains wealth in ruthless ways |
| Rural | country living or not urban |
| Separation of Powers | legislative, executive, and judicial powers being seperate |
| Social Darwinism | people are bound by the darwinism laws of nature or survival of the fittest |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Supreme Court | the highest court in the United States |
| Tariff | tax on imports and exports |
| Taxation without representation | the people in the american colonies where getiing taxed but had no one to represent them |
| Trade Union | workers going on strike to protect their rights |
| Urban | city or town |
| Veto | to reject a law |
| Thomas Jefferson | one of the united state's founders |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president famous for the the indian removal act |
| Sacagawea | she guided lewis and clark |
| James Polk | 11th president known for getting us land such as the oregon territory |
| Frederick Douglass | run away slave that wrote the north star newspaper |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle toms cabin |
| John Brown | abolitionist that tried to arm the slaves to fight back the racist government |
| Robert E. Lee | a general for the c.s.a during the civil war |
| Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
| Susan B. Anthony | womens suffragest |
| Sitting Bull | the leader of the natives at little big horn |
| George Custer | the leader of u.s soldiers that attacked the natives at little big horn |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | one of the men who built the u.s |
| John Rockefeller | founder of the standard oil company |
| Andrew Carnegie | found out how to mass produce steel |
| Jamestown | first permenent english settlement |
| Plymouth | a seaport but started out as a small colony |
| Lexington and Concord | first fight of the revolutionary war |
| Erie Canal | canal from new york to lake erie |
| the alamo | The Alamo was a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army |
| Harper’s Ferry | is now a historic town but was the place where john brown raided the armory |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shots of the civil war were fired |
| Gettysburg | the bloodiest battle of the civil war |
| Appomattox Courthouse | where Lee surendered |
| Ford’s Theater | president licoln was shot there |
| Promontory Point, Utah | the first transcontenintal railroad was built |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | immigration station |
| Declaration of Independence | the document that started the revoltionary war |
| Revolutionary War | the war that gave us our freedom from great britian |
| Articles of Confederation | it was like the first constitution |
| Great Compromise | gave states the right ot make laws |
| Passing of the Constitution | the spreme court had to vote on changing the articles of confederation |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | after adding the bill of rights, it gave the people rights that the government can not take away |
| Louisiana Purchase | where we bought the louisiana territory from the french |
| Missouri Compromise | made the states equaly divided into none slave states and slave states |
| Indian Removal Acts | where andrew jackson moved all the natives to reservations |
| Mexican-American War | where we fought mexico for texas |
| California Gold Rush | gold was found in california and people flouded in to find it |
| Homestead Act | made land in the west payment free |
| Industrial Revolution | we went to making things by hand to making them by factories |
| Underground Railroad | how slaves would run away |
| Seneca Falls Convention | first womens rights convention |
| Compromise of 1850 | helped decide what states in the mexican terriotory would be slave and non slave |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | allowed people to vote for slavery or non slavery |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | made it so that slaves taken to free states are still slaves |
| Fugitive Slave Act | where if you find a run away slave you have to return him and punish him |
| Bleeding Kansas | violence during the setlling of the kansas territory |
| Civil War | where the north was fighting the south because the south wanted slaves and the north didnt |
| Emancipation Proclamation | all slaves in the c.s.a are free |
| Civil War draft riots | people didnt think drafting was fair so they formed riots |
| Gettysburg Address | speech licoln gave at the battle of gettysburg |
| Reconstruction | after civil war the north tried to make their relationship with the south better |
| Civil War Amendments | made blacks citizens, gave them the right to vote, and gave them their freedom |
| Completion of TransContinental Railroad | when we completed the transcontinental railroad |
| Indian Wars | the natives fought off the u.s soldiers from taking their land |
| Gilded Age | when there was a lot of money coming into the u.s |
| Populist Party | political party for the people |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | made it so blacks were segragated |
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