Native Americans
The second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent
What is the Mississippi river?
A slogan originating the 1700s that summarized one of 27 colonial grievances of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies
What is No taxation without representation?
R.A.P.P.S
What is the first amendment?
The Court held that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Lincolns blueprint for reconstruction
What is Lincoln's 10% plan?
It was a confederation of Native American Indians which was originally composed of 5 tribes consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca peoples
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower compact?
The original constitution of the U.S
What is the Articles of Confederation?
As part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers
What is the Fugitive Slave law?
Tenant farmer that grows and uses crops for rent
What is sharecropping?
The native people of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them
What is the impact of European colonization to America?
The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature
What is the House of Burgesses?
The presidents power to discard of a bill
What is veto power?
A speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
What is the Gettysburg address?
A faction of American politcians within the republican parties of the United states.
What are Radical Republicans?
The Native American tribe who inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia
What is the Chesapeake tribe?
It was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A part of the executive branch
What is the Cabinet?
It encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land
What is the Homestead Act?
Formed by congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the aftermath of the civil war
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
What is Mercantilism?
The 17th and 18th century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep British colonies obedient to England.
What is Salutary Neglect?
The upper chamber of the United States Congress
What is the senate?
She was an American abolitionist and author
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Political candidate that seeks election in an are where they have no local connections.
What is a carpetbagger?