book o f american history

Book Of American History

By: Kadajiuna VaughnHistory

May- 12-11

an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise:

AMBUSH Arsenal

Storage for weapons

African Americans

Slaves from Africa.

Boycott

To abstain from buying or using.

Bill of Rights

formal statement of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States, incorporated in the constitution as Amendments 1–10, and in all state constitutions

Burgesses

a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland.

CEDE

To give up treatyCalifornios

Mexicans who lived in California

Canal

Artificial waterway.

Person or country who owes money

Debtor

Dred Scott vs., Sanford

was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.

Depreciate

To fall in value

Emancipate

to free (a slave) from bondage

Export

Sell goods abroad

Executive branch

the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.

Guerrilla Warfare

Hit and run technique

Guerrilla Tactics surprise attacks or raids

Gettysburg Address

The notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.

Holocaust

Mass slaughter of jews

Alexander, 1757–1804, American statesman and writer on government: the first Secretary of the Treasury 1789–97; mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.

Alexander Hamilton

Human Rights

Rights regarded as belonging to all persons

ImportBuy goods from foreign markets.

Ironclad Armored naval vessel.

Industrial Revolution

Society based on Industry

Judicial Reviewthe power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.

Joint Occupation

The possession and settling of an area by two or more countries

Judicial Branch

The branch of government including the federal court system, that interprets the nation’s laws

Landslide

Overwhelming Victory

LoyalistStaying Loyal to Great Britain

Lynching Killing illegally

ManumissionFreeing of slaves

MartyrA person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause

Militia

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

Neutral

Taking no side in conflict

Nullify

To cancel or make ineffective

Naturalization

Grant of full citizenship

Ordinance

A law or regulation

Overseer A person who supervises a large operation

Override

To overturn in defeat

Perjury

Lying while under oath

Persecute

To treat badly and horribly

Petition

A formal request

Quakers Belief in religion

Quartering act

In March 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment.

Battle of Quebec

Was fought on December 31, 1775 between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of the city of Quebec, early in the American Revolutionary War.

Ratify Give approval Recruit

Enlist Soldiers in army

Repeal Cancel an act or law

Smuggling

Trading Illegally

Suffrage

Right to vote

Sectionalism Loyalty to a union

Tariff

A tax on imports or exports

Temperance

Use of little or no alcohol

Turnpike

A road one must pay to use

Utopia

Any visionary system of political or social perfection.

Unalienable Rights

Rights that cannot be taken away

Underground Railroad A network of escape routes from north to south for slaves

Veto

Reject a bill from becoming a law

Vigilants

Taking the law into your own hands

Vaquero Hispanic ranch land

Whiskey Rebellion

a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.

Writs of assistance

to help customs officials search for smuggled goods

Women's rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men and with establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex.

The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic event that strained relations

between France and the United States, and led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War. It took place from March of 1798 to 1800.

Yorktown The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Cornwallis to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War on October 19, 1781.

Duke of York

A colony given by King Charles and was renamed to New York

Yellow Journalism

False reports given by leading Newspapers

• John Peter Zinger• New York Weekly Journal Publisher