| A | B |
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| indentured servants | voyage was financed in return for seven years of contracted work |
| Great Awakening | Period of intense religious revival in the colonies between 1720-1740 |
| Social Contract | agreement between the government and its citizens |
| mercantilism | nation's economy can be strengthened by the use of protective tariffs, trade monopolies and a balance of imports and exports |
| salutary neglect | Great Britian's policy of not interfering in oclonial politics and economy |
| French and Indian War | England and the colonists fought against the French and the Indians |
| Middle Passage | Trianular Trade that transported enslave persons from Africa to the Americas |
| Proclamation of 1763 | told colonists that they couldn't live in the trans-Appalachian area |
| British taxed colonies | to pay for the French and Indian War |
| No taxation without representation | protest slogan against British taxation of the colonies |
| Quarting Act | required colonists to provide food and lodging for British soldiers |
| Stamp Act | colonists felt thsi was taxation without representation |
| Coercive Acts | The Intolerable Acts |
| Common Sense | pamphlet that stated why it made sense to break away from Britian |
| Declaration of Independence | writen by Thomas Jefferson signed July 4, 1776 |
| Declaration of Independence | inspiration to many other countries |
| natural rights | ideas of John Locke expression life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness |
| Articles of Confederation | first national document that governed the United States |
| Electoral College | organization set up for selecting the President of the U.S |
| Three-fifths Compromise | contradicts that that all men are created equal |
| one branch of the government will not be stronger that another branch | system of checks and balances |
| Bill of Rights | added to Constitution in order to gain approval of the Anti-Federalists |
| Great Compromise resolved | representation in the house and Senate |
| Whiskey Rebellion | George Washington sent in Federal troops to stop this uprising |
| foreing goods taxed | tariff |
| Louisiana Purchase | doubled the size of the U.S |
| judicial review | principle enables federal courts to declare laws unconstitutional |
| President Jefferson's popularity declinded | passed the Embargo of 1807 |
| War of 1812 started | because Great Britian was harassed American merchant ships |
| War of 1812 this was written | The Star Spangled Banner |
| Monroe | President established a doctrine that warned European nations not to become involved in internal affairs |
| Missouri Compromise | where slavery should be allowed in future states |
| President Andrew Jackson | relocated Native-American groups through the Trail of Tears |
| South in the early 1800s | mostly rural |
| Underground Railroad | smuggled slaves to freedom in Canada |
| manifest destiny | expand the nation from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean |
| Mexican War | gain control fo the large portion of the Southwest |
| Religious persecution caused Mormons | travel as far west as the Great Salt Lake |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | states could vote to be free or slave states |
| Dred Scott decision | protected the rights of slave owners |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Fugitive Slave Act | required the return of escaped slaves to their owners |
| southern states seceded from the Union | election of Abraham Lincoln as President |
| first battle of the Civil War | Bull Run letting the North and South know it was going to be a long war |
| Man who captured Vicksburg and lead the Union Army | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Battle that gave control of the Missippi River | Vicksburg |
| Anaconda Plan | North's war strategy to crush the South |
| bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War | Antietam |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | war strategy, total war |
| Gettysburg | turning point of the Civil War |
| Fifteenth Amendment | no one could be denied the right to vote based on race |
| Fourteenth Amendment | gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S |
| Thirteenth Amendment | ended slavery |
| Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Congress passed this during Reconstruction to establish districts in the South |
| carpetbaggers | people who traveled from the North to the South after the Civil War to reap benefits of the war |
| Andrew Johnson | took over after Lincoln was assinated and was almost impeached |
| Freedman's Bureau | organization developed to help former slaves adjust to their freedom |
| labor unions formed | result of workers growing discontent with their working conditions |
| destruction of the Native Indian | destruciton of buffalo |
| where Asian immigrants came through | Angel Island |
| muckrakers | journalists who expoused coruption |
| political bossess | took bribes for jobs |
| Ellis Island | port of entry for European Immigrations |
| laissez faire | government not interfering with business |
| socialism | philosophy were all resources and means of production are owned by the community |
| progressivism | change or progress |
| Glided Age | thin layer of gold |
| imperialism | when a larger nation attempts to control a weaker nation |
| Nationalism | devotion or love of ones country |
| annex | join a new country to an existing country |
| countries who practiced imperialism before the U.S | Russia, Germany, Great Britain and France |
| Yellow journalism | sensationalism in newspaper |
| Rough Riders | led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War |
| Territories given to the U.S. to after the Spanish American War | Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam |
| Panama Canal | built to allow trade and naval ships to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
| Great White Fleet | Roosevelt sent naval ships around the world to show American's naval power |
| militarism | build up of a nations military forces |
| major causes of WWI | imperialism, militarism, nationalism, alliances |
| Central powers | Germany and Austria-Hungry |
| Allied powers | Great Britain, France, Russia, and U.S. |
| Stalemate | a situation where neither side is advancing |
| Neutrality | Americans response at the beginning of WWI |
| Country was forced to leave the war due to a revolution within it's own country | Russia |
| This country was responsible for declaring war and starting WWI | Austria-Hungry |
| Country were most of the fighting was done | France |
