America's Early Government
The three branches of the U.S. government are the legislative, executive, and this branch.
What is the judicial branch?
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country, which doubled the size of the U.S.
What is France?
The Southern economy relied heavily on owned labor, treated as property.
What is slavery?
Americans believed that it was their God-given right, or destiny, to expand all the way west to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This term describes a government system where power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This president bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This term can be used to describe the growth of factories in the North.
What is industrialization?
This word means to formally withdraw, or leave, from a union, alliance, or political organization.
What is secede?
A former slave, she became famous for her work helping freed slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.
If the president vetos a law, this branch can overrule the veto with a two-thirds vote.
What is the legislative branch?
Americans traveled along this trail via wagon and horse in big groups to make it all the way west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This system was set up by white and black abolitonists to help slaves find freedom in the North/Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The act of adding a territory or area to a country, city, or state.
What is annex?
This branch of government is the only branch able to declare war.
What is the legislative branch?
What is the House of Representatives?
This Native American group participated in the Trail of Tears, an 800 mile trek to "Indian Territory".
Who are the Cherokees?
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but this state had to enter as a free state.
What is Maine?
This plot of land was set aside in present-day Oklahoma by Andrew Jackson for Native American groups.
What are reservations?
This house of Congress is made up of elected officials, the number based on the states' population.
What is the House of Representatives?
This concept was established in the court case Marbury v. Madison, where the Supreme Court is allowed to deem a law unconstitutional and disallow it.
What is judicial review?
James K. Polk's slogan when running for President, which promoted securing the Oregon territory from Britain.
What is '54 40 or Fight!'
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that is well known for being a prelude to the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This refers to an exaggerated loyalty to a region or section rather than the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
The nickname of the Middle colonies, which they got due to their grain production.
What are the Breadbasket colonies?