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The pathway many Emigrants travelled to reach the western United States in the 1800s.

Oregon Trail

This financial exchange between the United States and France was made so that Napoleon could fund his wars in Europe. It more than doubled the size of the country.

The Louisiana Purchase

Built during and after the Civil War, this vital transportation network connected ocean to ocean.

Transcontinental Railroad

This act by Andrew Jackson caused the Trail of Tears, and forced Native Americans off of their ancestral homeland.

Indian Removal Act

This Constitutional Amendment ensures that the government cannot force you to allow soldiers to stay in your home.

The 3rd Amendment

A new invention added to guns of the time to make Civil War rifles far more accurate.

Rifling

A series of protests that took place in the Confederacy because they didn’t have enough food.

The Bread Riots

A document that freed enslaved people in the Confederate States of America.

Emancipation Proclamation

A man who sued for the right to be free even though he had been enslaved. He argued he was free because he travelled to a free state.

Dred Scott

A series of violent fights in Kansas between pro-slavery forces and anti-slavery forces.

Bleeding Kansas

A new way to buy things using a piece of plastic rather than money. You still have to pay money later.

credit cards

A person who sneaks alcohol into the United States despite prohibition, or makes it themselves, and then distributes it.

Bootlegger

A social insurance program to provide retirement and disability benefits. Retirement benefits, or cash payments to retired workers sometime after the age of 62

Social Security

The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. His plane was named “Spirit of St. Louis”.

Charles Lindbergh

Shanty towns constructed out of whatever people could find during the Great Depression.

Hooverville

A businessman in the late 1800s and early 1900s who was known for building the American steel industry.

Andrew Carnegie

16th President of the United States. He oversaw the Civil War from beginning to end.

Abraham Lincoln

Leader of the Allied invasion of Normandy, and a president of the United States.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Ike)

6th President of the United States. He was the son of a former President.

John Quincy Adams
(J. Quadams)

A women’s rights advocate in the 1900s who advocated for many things including birth control for all Women.

Margaret Sanger

The first world war was fought largely in these long ditches in the ground.

Trenches

A secret message between Germany and Mexico. Germany was trying to get Mexico to declare war on the United States.

Zimmerman Telegram

The targets where the first ever Atomic Bombs were dropped.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A group of countries during WW1 consisting of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy. Later the Ottoman Empire too.

Triple Alliance/Central Powers

A form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong restructuring of society and the economy

Fascism

An economic philosophy that advocates that the government and private companies should share control of the economy, and that the government should provide a basic standard of living to all people.

Socialism