US Government
Head of the Executive Branch
Who is the President?
Industrial, less farm land, More developed
What is the North?
1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This state's annexation that was a major cause of the war
What is Texas?
History Teacher
What is Ms. Reid's Job?
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
What are the three branches of government?
large scale cultivation of crops, plantation systems, slave labor
What is the South?
Belief that moving west is "fated"
What is Manifest Destiny?
This river was the disputed border between Texas and Mexico before the war.
What is the Rio Grande
Beyonce
Who is Ms. Reid's favorite artist?
Two from each state, sit for six years
What are Senators?
Cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice
What are Cash Crops?
Who was James K. Polk?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who is Ms. Reid's favorite president.
Outlines the powers reserved to the states or the people
What is the 10th Amendment?
Regal name for a cash crop
What is King Cotton?
First compromise that limited slavery
What was the Missouri Compromise?
California and New Mexico
What is the Mexican Cession?
Memphis
Where is Ms. Reid from?
First step in the presidential election process, where parties select their candidates
What is the primary election?
Invention that is responsible for the explosion of the cotton
Slavery was banned above this
What was the 36 30 latitude
Sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Momo
What is the name of Ms. Reid's pet cat?
Allows the supreme court to declare laws unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
Northern destination for much of the south's cotton
Cotton and/or textile mills
Joseph Smith's religious following that moved west
Who are mormans?
These words from a future president discussed where blood of americans was first shed
What is the Spot Resolution?
John and Terry
What are the names of Ms. Reid's parents?