| A | B |
|---|
| Abolitionalists | Supported the end of slavery |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | Restricted naturalization of immigrants and could not publish material critical of the government |
| American Revolution | Colonists fought the British in an attempt to gain independence |
| Anti-Federalists | Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution |
| Articles of Confederation | Firs constitution to ouline the government of the U.S. |
| Assembly line | Manufacturing technique invented by Henry Ford |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Uprising in VA caused by the government failing to protect the Western frontier of Native Americans |
| Balance of Power | Different powers are delegated to the three branches of government |
| Battle of New Orleans | Last battle of the War of 1812 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Bill ofRights | First ten amendments of the Constitution |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | Violense preceded vote on slavery in Kansas. John Brown was involved in a massacre of slave owners. |
| Boston Massacre | British troops fire on a crowd of colonists in Boston |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dressed as Indians dump tea into harbor |
| "Black Tuesday" | The day the stock market crashed |
| John Brown | Extreme abolitionist leader who took part in the "Bleeding Kansas" massacre |
| Bull Moose Party | Progressive coalition led by Theodore Roosevelt following the nomination of Taft by the Republican Party |
| California Gold Rush | Took place following a gold discovery in 1849. Those who got there first were call the "forty-niners" |
| Carpetbaggers | Derogatory term for Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction to make a profit |
| Civi War | The war between the North and the South |
| Civil War Amendments | 13th (no slavery), 14th (due process), 15th (voting rights for African-Americans) |
| Christopher Columbus | First European to land in the New World (1492) |
| Compromise of 1850 | Admitted California as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Confederate States of America | Name of the Southern States that seceded during the Civil War Era |
| Conquistadors | Spanish explorers came to conquer in the 16th century |
| Conservaton | government should withhold land from development, championed by Theodore Roosevelt a conservatonists |
| U.S. Constitution | The Supreme Law of the Land |
| Constitutinal Convention | Meeting to discuss drafting a new constitution because the Articles of Confederation was no working |
| "Court Packing" Plan | FDR attempt to place New Deal advocates justices on the Supreme Court |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France in Normandy |
| Declaration of Independence | Document written by Jefferson in 1776 declaring American independence |
