Socail Studies Final (everything)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1*George Washington | first president of the U.S. |
| John Adams | first vice president of the U.S. |
| Thomas Jefferson | first secertary of state. |
| Alexander Hamiliton | first secertary of treasury |
| John Jay | first cheif justice of the U.S. |
| Napeolan Bonaparte | Ruler of France during the LA purchase. |
| James Monroe | 4th President of the U.S. |
| Lewis&Clark | two men who explored the LA territory |
| Cabinet | a group of adivisers for the president |
| Judicial Review | the right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Consititution |
| Democratic | Goverment for the People. |
| Nationalism | Loyatly to a nation&Promotion of its intrest above all others |
| Impressment | Forcing people to serve in the navy. |
| New York | The captial of the U.S. during Washington's Presidency? |
| John Adams | George Washingtons Vice presdident? |
| 15 Million | How much was the LA purchase? |
| 3 Cents | How much was it Per Acre? |
| 13 | How many states were created from the LA purchase? |
| France | What country was the LA purchase purchase from? |
| Napeolan Bonaparte | Who was the ruler of the country that sold us the Lousiana Territory? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Who was the presdient of the U.S. during the LA purchase? |
| Farmers | What was the occupation of most people during the 1800's? |
| Britian | Country U.S. fought during the War of 1812? |
| 1*Frances Scott Key | Author of the Star Spangle Banner? |
| 2*Manifest Destiny | The idea popular in the U.S.during the 1800's that the country must be expand its boundries to the Pacific |
| Cede | to give up by treaty |
| Annex | to add territory |
| Emigrants | A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewere |
| 49ers | people who went to california during the Gold Rush of 1849 |
| Boomtown | a community experiencing a sudden growth in bussiness or population |
| Mormons | Members of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints |
| Thomas Jefferson | President when we bought LA |
| Napeolan Bonaparte | Emperor of France who sold us LA purchase |
| Andrew Jackson | Sent to stop the Seminols |
| Davy Crockett | Fought in the Alamo |
| Sam Huston | Leader of the Texas Army |
| Santa Anna | Dictator of France |
| Stephen Austin | son of Moses Austin |
| Zachary Taylor | General of the U.S. Army |
| Brigham Young | leader of the monorms |
| Seminoles | Native Americans,Only ones who stayed on homeland not getting relocated |
| Cherokee | Native Americans who were forced on the trail of tears |
| *2Alamo | Texan Army Barricated |
| *3 Arsenal | A place were weapons&ammunition are stored |
| Famine | A storage place for food |
| Immigrant | a person who comes into a country from another country to live |
| Emmigrant | a person who leaves a country to go live in another country |
| Captial | Money invested in a bussiness |
| Abolitionist | A person who wanted to abolish slavery |
| Underground Railroad | A network of places for slaves to stay and get help when trying to stay away |
| Bleeding Kanas | Name given to Kanas because of the violence that broke out over voting wether to have slavery or not |
| Fort Sumter | the fort were the first battle of the civil war took place |
| Confederate States of America | Name of the country formed by the southern states that secede from the US |
| Civil War | War between citizens of the same country |
| Secede | The act of with drawing from or leaving the union |
| Robert Fulton | Built the first steamboat |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph and developed the morse code |
| Eli Whittney | invented the cotton gin |
| Harriett Tubman | "conductor"of the underground railroad ;an escaped slave |
| Frederick Douglass | A former slave who became a leading abolitionist speaker |
| Stephen Douglass | Ran aganist Lincolin for senator and won;ran aganist lincioln for president and lost .northen demoraitic candaite for president in 1860 |
| Dred Scott | Sued for his freedom becuase his master took him to live in free terittory |
| Abraham Lincioln | Electected president 1860;16th president during the civil war |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederate States of America |
| Ireland&Germany | What two countrys did most of the immigrants come from during this period? |
| Lincioln Douglass Lincioln | who ran against each other for senator of Illionis in 1858?who won? |
| cotton&tobbaco | what were the two main crops of the south? |
| confederate fort sumter | who fired the first shots of the civil war?were did this happen? |
| 33 hours. april 12,1861 | how long did the war last?what was the date? |
| oregon califorina maine new york new jersey vermont ohio pennsylivania rhode island illionis iowa | 11 states the secede from the US? |
| mossuri kentucky maryland vermont delaware | 5 border states that remained in the union even though they allowed slavery |
| *3texas flordia south carolina north carloina alabama LA mississippi tennessee arkanas georgia | list at least 10 other union states |
| *4Fort Sumter | First Battle of the War |
| Bull Run | the first important battle of the war |
| Antietam | bloodiest single battle of war |
| VIcksburg | Victory in 6 week siege gave union control of entire mississippi river;turing point of war |
| Gettysburg | Bloodest Battle in war;turing point of war |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the US who served during the civil war and was assianted shortly after the war ended |
| Jefferson Davis | Served as president of the confederate states of america |
| Ulyess S. Grant | Served as commander of the union army during the last year using a strategy of "total war" |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the confederate army |
| William Sherman | Union general whose troops burned altanta and then marched to the sea(savannah on the altantic) destroying everything in their path |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave who served as a union spy |
| Yankees | Union Soliders |
| Rebels | Confderate Soliders |
| Casuality | wounded soliders |
| Fatality | Death |
| Emancipate | To free all african americans in the south |
| Inflation | Increase in prices |
| Emancipation Proclmation | Strategy used by Grant, war on enemys lives |
| Gettysburg Address | Linciolns famous speech |
| *413th Amendment | Amendment that freed slaves |
| *5 Reconstruction | the reorganization and rebuilding of the former confederate states after the civil war |
| Amnesty | the granting of pardon to a large number of persons;protection from prosecution for a illegal act |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controling freedmenn and enabling plantion owners to exploit African American workers |
| Scalawags | name given by former confederates to southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the south |
| Carpetbaggers | name given to northen whites who moved south after the war and supported the republicans |
| poll tax | a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before a person could vote |
| literacy test | a method used to prevent african americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level |
| grandfather clause | a clause that allowed indiviuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began;an exception to a law based on preexisting circumstances |
| *4 segergation | the seperation fo isolation of a race ,class,or group |
| *5 Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the Telephone Ring-Ins |
| Thomas Edison | invented the phonograph |
| Henery Ford | Invented the Model T Ford |
| Wright Brothers | built wood and canvas plane with 12-horsepower engine |
| John D. Rockfeller | organized the standard oil company |
| William McKinley | president in 1897 |
| George Dewey | lanuched a suprise attack on spanish fleet in Manlia Bay |
| Theodore Rooselvet | resigened his poisition as assistant secretary of the navy to join the fight in cuba |
| assembly line | a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs a assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her |
| mass production | the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line |
| dividends | a stockholder's share of a companys profits usally as a cash payment |
| monoply | total control of a type of industry by one person or company |
| philanthrophy | chartable acts or gifts of money to benfit the community |
| imperialism | the actions used by one nation to exercise poltical or economic control over smaller or weaker nations |
| Yellow journalism | writting which exaggerates sensational ,dramatic,and gruesome events to attract readers,named for stories that were popular during the late 1800's; a type of sensational ,biased,and often false reporting |
| Railroad | what became the driving force behind america's economy after the civil war/ |
| edison | who was called the worlds greatest inventor? |
| getting work | what was the biggest challegen for immigrants |
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