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Mr. Polk Vocabulary
for Mr. Polk
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cardinal directions | NEWS |
| Intermediate Directions | in between |
| physical geography | land |
| Political Map | borders |
| landforms | natural |
| landmark | man made |
| Appalachian Mts. | East Mts. |
| Rocky Mts. | West Mts. |
| Atlantic Ocean | East Ocean |
| Pacific Ocean | West Ocean |
| industry | making |
| agriculture | farming |
| urban | city |
| rural | countryside |
| economy | how make $ |
| resources | what they use |
| Europe | overseas |
| Britain | England |
| colony | town |
| suburban | neighborhoods |
| Cashcrop | grown for $ |
| Jamestown | 1st |
| Plymouth | Pilgrims |
| representative | spokesperson |
| Mayflower Compact | rules |
| House of Burgesses | representative government |
| New England Colonies | industry |
| Middle Colonies | Bread Basket |
| Southern Colonies | growing crops |
| free enterprise | supply and demand |
| French and Indian War | created debt |
| taxation | government collects money |
| patriot | American |
| loyalists | British |
| revolution | to go against |
| Sons of Liberty | patriot group |
| Quartering Act | Housing Soldiers |
| Stamp Act | paper tax |
| Townshend Act | tea tax |
| Tea Act | Buy from One Company |
| Boston Tea Party | throw in harbor |
| Intolerable acts | punishment |
| Continental Congress | meeting |
| Declaration of Independence | quit Britain |
| "Common Sense" | convincing |
| Lexington/Concord | "shot heard 'round the world" |
| Midnight Ride | "British are coming" |
| Saratoga | Turning point |
| Yorktown | surrender |
| Treaty of Paris | recognize USA |
| federal | 1 government |
| anti-federal | state governments |
| Amendments | changes |
| Bill of Rights | first 10 |
| press | news reporting |
| bear arms | own guns |
| preamble | introduction |
| constitution | rules of government |
| tranquility | peace |
| checks and balances | watch over |
| Judicial | Supreme Court |
| Executive | President |
| Legislative | Congress |
| Justices | judges |
| cabinet | advisors |
| immigrant | new to country |
| impressment | force to work |
| War of 1812 | Revolution 2 |
| trade restrictions | no buying/selling |
| Star Spangled Banner | "Oh say can you see?" |
| manufacturing | making |
| mass production | a lot at once |
| technology | new tools |
| Industrial Revolution | machines take over |
| mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| assembly line | Henry Ford |
| steel plow | John Deere |
| Cumberland Gap | mountain path |
| cottage industry | one makes it |
| Louisiana Purchase | for Mississippi River |
| Corps of Discovery | exploration |
| Manifest Destiny | go west |
| Transcontinental | across continent |
| Locomotive | train |
| Florida Purchase | salves/Indian attacks |
| Texas Annexation | joins US |
| Oregon Trail | wagon trains |
| Mexican Cession | US/Mexican War |
| Gadsden Purchase | for train tracks |
| states rights | states make laws |
| Missouri Compromise | balance with Maine |
| Compromise of 1850 | fugitive slave act |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | vote |
| Bleeding Kansas | fighting over slavery |
| abolitionist | hates slavery |
| civil war | country fighting itself |
| Union | U.S.A. / North |
| Confederate | South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed some slaves |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's Speech |
| Appomattox Courthouse | surrender location |
| border states | Union slave states |
| reconstruction | build back |
| secession | to leave |
| 13th amendment | ends ALL slavery |
| 14th amendment | citizenship |
| 15th amendment | ex-slaves vote |
| black codes | against ex-slaves |
| jim crow laws | stop black codes |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| 19th amendment | women's vote |
| civil rights | same rights |
| share cropping | given farm land |
| Freedman's Bureau | helps ex-slaves |
| Great Depression | economy collapses |
| Dust Bowl | wind storms |
| Black Tuesday | Stock Market Crash |
| over production | made too much |
| New Deal | attempted fix |
| alliances | agreement |
| allies | US and friends |
| axis | Germany and friends |
| trenches | ditches |
| nationalism | love for country |
| isolationism | stay out of it |
| The Great WAr | World War I |
| Zimmermann Telegraph | asked Mexico to attack |
| Lusitania | Germany torpedoed |
| Peral Harbor | sneak attack |
| Nazi | German Nationalist |
| Holocaust | killing of Jews |
| Atomic Bomb | Hiroshima |
| D-Day | USA enters Europe |
| Treaty of Versailles | Ends the War |
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