Annexation
This purchase from the French gave the United States control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A written code of rules or laws.
What is a charter?
In 1689 the Parliament of England said in this document that rulers had to rule by the consent of the governed.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Insurrection is another word for what?
What is an uprising?
Until the mid 1960's in some states African Americans and poor whites had to pay these taxes in order to vote.
What are poll taxes?
The Mexican War resulted in what two states being annexed to the US.
What are California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas?
A statement.
What is a declaration?
People have the right to a fair trial by a jury of their peers or equals and should not suffer cruel or unusual punishment.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Where did John Brown lead the slave revolt?
What is Harper's Ferry?
Early on in US history the only person who could vote.
What is a male property owner?
An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.
What is a compromise?
Government is contract between the governing authority and the people.
What is a social contract?
A state church where you could go to jail if you did not belong.
What is the Church of England?
This revolution influenced the successful slave revolution against the French in Haiti.
What is the American Revolution?
The era of rebuilding after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
A primary crop in the south.
What is cotton?
Another word for cattle used to identify slaves.
What is chattel?
The document tt defines basic laws and principles f\of government for the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The protest when tea was dumped in to the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Another word for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
The belief in westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A law making body.
What is legislature?
When the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth Massachusetts om 1620, 41 adult males signed this document which formed a system of government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Sectionalism or regionalism that led to this war.
What is the Civil War?
When 7 states voted to withdraw from the Union, President Lincoln would not have it and as a result a war ensued.
What is the Civil War?