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inauguration
cabinet
excise tax
national bank
The formal ceremony starting a President's term.
A group who advises the President and helps him with his respo…
A tax paid for the manufacture or sale of certain goods and se…
Part of Treasurer, Alexander Hamilton's plan to help our new n…
inauguration
The formal ceremony starting a President's term.
cabinet
A group who advises the President and helps him with his respo…
capitalism
anarchist
deport
lease
economic system based on private property and free enterprise
person who believes there should be no government
expel from a country
to rent
capitalism
economic system based on private property and free enterprise
anarchist
person who believes there should be no government
Bond
Cabinet
National Debt
Unconstitutional
a note by the government, promising to pay off a loan with int…
a group of advisor to the president
the money that a national government owes to other government…
doesn't agree or consistent with the Constitution
Bond
a note by the government, promising to pay off a loan with int…
Cabinet
a group of advisor to the president
popular sovereignty
secession
transcontinental railroad
referendum
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern r…
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a…
popular sovereignty
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
secession
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Orville and Wilbur Wright
George Eastman
Brooklyn Bridge
Main designer of Central Park in new York City, who wanted cit…
These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who bu…
1888, lightweight Kodak camera that make photography an afford…
Designed by John Roebling. Combines two structural systems, st…
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Main designer of Central Park in new York City, who wanted cit…
Orville and Wilbur Wright
These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who bu…
Great White Fleet
Roosevelt Corollary
Sphere of Influence
Imperialism
A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cru…
extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which the right of the Uni…
Area of economic and political control exerted by one nation o…
Policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by dominating…
Great White Fleet
A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cru…
Roosevelt Corollary
extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which the right of the Uni…
localism
RFC
Trickle-down economics
Hoover Dam
the policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and…
gave more than a billion dollars of goverment loans to railroa…
held that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid wo…
recently known as Boulder Dam
localism
the policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and…
RFC
gave more than a billion dollars of goverment loans to railroa…
bread line
Hooverville
tenant farmer
dust bowl
the only place for a family to get a free scrap of food
makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land…
some farmers remained on land working for bigger landowners ra…
swath of parched earth where many dust storms happened
bread line
the only place for a family to get a free scrap of food
Hooverville
makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land…
Herbert Hoover
Speculation
Black Tuesday
business cycle
when republicans met at their 1928 nominating convention the c…
stock with a high degree of risk
the bottom fell out
explained the periodic growth and contraction of the economy
Herbert Hoover
when republicans met at their 1928 nominating convention the c…
Speculation
stock with a high degree of risk
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Charles de Talleyrand
nullify
the leader of the Democratic-Republican party.
the leader of the Federalist party
the French foreign minister
to legally overturn
Thomas Jefferson
the leader of the Democratic-Republican party.
Alexander Hamilton
the leader of the Federalist party
St. Augustine
Federal republic
Virginia
Lexington
First permanent European settlement in the New World
Type of government established by the U.S. Constitution
Colony that established the House of Burgesses
Where the first shots of the War for Independence were fired
St. Augustine
First permanent European settlement in the New World
Federal republic
Type of government established by the U.S. Constitution
mayflower compact
the fundamental order of connecticut
puritans
quakers
framework for the self-government of the plymouth colony signe…
americas first written constitution
english protestants who believed in strict religious disciplin…
pacifists who opposed slavery and favored decent treatment of…
mayflower compact
framework for the self-government of the plymouth colony signe…
the fundamental order of connecticut
americas first written constitution
Nicholas Biddle
DeWitt Clinton
John Deere
Cyrus Field
director of the National Bank
Governor of New York who encouraged the construction of the Er…
invented the steel plow
invested in laying a transatlantic cable
Nicholas Biddle
director of the National Bank
DeWitt Clinton
Governor of New York who encouraged the construction of the Er…
A ceremony in which the president takes…
Precedent
Bond
Spectaculors
Inauguration
An example to be followed by others in future
A certificate issued by government for an amount of money that…
People who invest in a risky venture in the hope in making a l…
A ceremony in which the president takes…
Inauguration
Precedent
An example to be followed by others in future
Patrick Henry
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Alexander Hamilton
Refused to go to the Constitutional Convention because he oppo…
He was the Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention…
Virginia patriot who refused to go to the Constitutional Conve…
New Yorker who called for a meeting of representatives from al…
Patrick Henry
Refused to go to the Constitutional Convention because he oppo…
George Washington
He was the Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention…
Republic
Federalists
Equal
Checks and Balances
Type of government with elected representatives.
Those in favor of the ratification of the Constitution.
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had __ represe…
This allows each branch to limit the power of the other two br…
Republic
Type of government with elected representatives.
Federalists
Those in favor of the ratification of the Constitution.
republic
financial obligations
national bank
Whiskey Rebellion
the United States was the first republic to form and had no pa…
the new government began operating with great debt
set it up by Hamilton to be privately owned and operated
farmers in Pennsylvania became upset over the tax on whisky; i…
republic
the United States was the first republic to form and had no pa…
financial obligations
the new government began operating with great debt
Blockade
Olive Branch Petition
Cavalry
Abroad
An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from…
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to K…
a unit of soldiers who ride horses
in or to a foreign country
Blockade
An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from…
Olive Branch Petition
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to K…
inauguration
precedent
bond
speculator
ceremony in which the President officially take the oath of of…
example to be followed by others in the future
certificate issued by a government for a certain amount of mon…
person who invests in a risky venture in the hope of making a…
inauguration
ceremony in which the President officially take the oath of of…
precedent
example to be followed by others in the future
Changes in Public Education around 1900
Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk Universities
Disparities in education
Booker T. Washington
Increased attendance, growth of high schools, development of k…
Colleges specifically for African Amerians who were excluded f…
White students attended better schools in much higher numbers…
A prominent African American educator who believed that racism…
Changes in Public Education around 1900
Increased attendance, growth of high schools, development of k…
Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk Universities
Colleges specifically for African Amerians who were excluded f…
Gilded Age
laissez-faire
subsidy
blue law
post-Reconstruction era
business operating without government regulation
payment made by the government to encourage the development of…
regulations that prohibited certain private activities that so…
Gilded Age
post-Reconstruction era
laissez-faire
business operating without government regulation
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
Frederick Law Olmstead
Orville and Wilbur Wright
led architectural movement to create building designs that ref…
american architect and planner who helped bring French Baron H…
architect of New York's Central Park, first major public park…
these brothers are credited with creating the first functionin…
Louis Sullivan
led architectural movement to create building designs that ref…
Daniel Burnham
american architect and planner who helped bring French Baron H…
Northwest Ordinance
13 States
Articles of Confederation
bicameral
helped stop the spread of slavery to the west
had to approve the Articles of Confederation
formed the states into a firm league of friendship
having two separate lawmaking chambers
Northwest Ordinance
helped stop the spread of slavery to the west
13 States
had to approve the Articles of Confederation
Sharecropping
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Political manipulation
The new agricultural system that replaced the plantation econo…
White southerners that cooperated with the carpetbaggers and w…
People from the North who migrated to the South looking for mo…
Freed slaves in the south were used to the plantation system a…
Sharecropping
The new agricultural system that replaced the plantation econo…
Scalawags
White southerners that cooperated with the carpetbaggers and w…