Colonial Expansion
public land set aside for special use, as for Native Americans. Place most Native Americans were sent after the Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress.
Reservation
the title of our national anthem. During the War of 1812, the sight of the American flag still flying by “dawn’s early light” after the British bombarded Fort McHenry all night inspired Francis Scott Key to write this song.
Star-spangled banner
the period from 1865 to 1877, of rebuilding after the Civil War, in which programs were created to reunite the South with the North.
Reconstruction
the first lasting English settlement in Virginia. It was established in 1607.
Jamestown
The first U.S. constitution. It ended up being replaced because it was deemed too weak to govern the new country.
Articles of Confederation
a made a deal the U.S. made with France in 1803 to buy a large piece of land that nearly doubled the size of the country, and encouraged many Americans to move West.
Louisiana purchase
A war between people of the same country.
Civil war
What were the three Reconstruction amendments?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
A settlement in a distant land that is government by another country.
Colony
rights that cannot be taken away.
Unalienable rights
the idea that the United States had the right to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
treaty that ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico; it greatly expanded the territory of the United States.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Another word for pardon
Amnesty
a person who moves into a country from another country.
Immigrant
People who did not support the Constitution and did not want the federal government to have too much power, but rather states.
Anti-federalists
a person who arranged for the settlement of Texas in the early 1800s; a colonization agent
Empresario
the United States of America, also the northern states during the Civil War era. Won the Civil War.
name given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.
means colonists should not pay taxes if they do not have representatives in Parliament.
No taxation without representation
people who supported the Constitution and wanted a strong national government.
Federalists
came about when Missouri asked to join the Union. It was the solution to keep the balance of power between the North and the South.
Missouri compromise
declared that all slaves in the South or areas controlled by the confederacy were free.
Emancipation proclamation
name given to Southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction of the South.
Scalawag
an individual who agrees to work for another for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies, food, clothing, and shelter or until a debt is paid.
Indentured servant
the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Bill of rights