front 1 Militia | back 1 A group of vonteered soldiers |
front 2 Minutemen | back 2 The name for a soldier who was ready to fight at a minutes notice. |
front 3 Desert | back 3 To leave or abandon one's military duty |
front 4 Inflation | back 4 A rapid raise in prices |
front 5 Mercenary | back 5 A group of paid soldiers |
front 6 Blockade | back 6 A barrier preventing the movement of troops and supplies |
front 7 Patriot | back 7 A person who supported the USA |
front 8 Loyalist | back 8 A person for who supported Great Britian |
front 9 Petition | back 9 A formal request |
front 10 Profiteering | back 10 The act of charging high prices during a war |
front 11 Spy | back 11 A person who secretly watches people or events to get information |
front 12 Articles of confederation | back 12 One of the first plans for the US government |
front 13 Legislature | back 13 A person who has power to pass laws |
front 14 Delegate | back 14 A person who represents others |
front 15 Defend | back 15 To protect |
front 16 Due process | back 16 The idea that the government must follow the rules/laws |
front 17 Jury | back 17 Group of citizens who decide a court case |
front 18 Amendment | back 18 Change or addition to the constitution |
front 19 Ratify | back 19 To approve or adopt |
front 20 Bill of Rights | back 20 A statement that lists the liberties guaranteed by the government and people |
front 21 Checks and balances | back 21 The system that keeps one of the government branches from getting too much power |
front 22 Fundamental | back 22 basic |
front 23 Supreme Court | back 23 The highest court in the United States |
front 24 Federalism | back 24 A system in which federal and state government share power |
front 25 Gold Rush | back 25 The sudden rush of people to an area here gold has recently been discovered |
front 26 Discrimination | back 26 Unfair treatment of people based on their differences |
front 27 Cotton Gin | back 27 A machine that separates the cotton from its seeds |
front 28 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | back 28 The treaty under which Mexico sold its territory to the US |
front 29 Manifest Destiny | back 29 The belief that the United States had right to expand its borders west to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Rio Grande |
front 30 Wagon Train | back 30 A line of wagons led by an experienced guide |
front 31 Trail of tears | back 31 The name given to the forced march of 15,000 Cherokee in 1838 from their homes in Georgia to the Indian Territory |
front 32 Immigrant | back 32 A person who lives in a country in which he or she was not born in |
front 33 Steam engine | back 33 A machine that uses steam from boiling water to create power |
front 34 Reaper | back 34 A machine that cuts grain for harvesting |
front 35 Stagecoach | back 35 Large carriege pulled by horese used to carry passengers |
front 36 Previous | back 36 Coming before; earlier |
front 37 Interchangable parts | back 37 Part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another identical part |
front 38 Application | back 38 Way in which somthing is used |
front 39 Union | back 39 Group of states or nations that are ruled by one government or agree to work together |
front 40 Abolitionist | back 40 A person who wanted to end slavery |
front 41 Debate | back 41 A discussion where each person defends his or her opinion on a topic |
front 42 Sectionlism | back 42 Excessive regard for regoinal or local intrest |
front 43 Missouri compromise | back 43 Agreement that allowed Missouri and Maine to enter the Union and divide the Lousiana Territory into areas allowing slavery and areas outlawing slavery |
front 44 Treason | back 44 Betraying one's country |
front 45 Slave state | back 45 State where slavery was allowed |
front 46 Civil war | back 46 An armed conflict between groups within the same country |
front 47 Popular soverinty | back 47 The belief that the government is subject to the will of the people |
front 48 Free state | back 48 State where slavery is not allowed |
front 49 Secede | back 49 Withdraw or breakaway from a nation or oraganization |
front 50 Contribute | back 50 Give or supply |
front 51 Assinsination | back 51 The murder of an important person |
front 52 Malice | back 52 Desire to harm someone |
front 53 Proposition | back 53 Intention or plan |
front 54 Dedicated | back 54 Set apart for a special purpose |
front 55 Consecrate | back 55 Set apart as holy |
front 56 Score | back 56 Times twenty |
front 57 Draft | back 57 The selction of persons for military duty to some or other special duty |
front 58 Tradition | back 58 An inherited pr established way of doing something |
front 59 Conceived | back 59 Formed |
front 60 Emancipation prclamation | back 60 official announcement issued by president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that led to the end of slavery |
front 61 Anaconda Plan | back 61 The Union's army three step plan for defeating the Confederate army and ending the civil war |
front 62 Total war | back 62 Attacking an enemy's soldiers, civilians, and property |