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What is a journey for a specific purpose, such as exploration?
Expedition
What is adding territory to an existing governmental unit?
Annexation
What is allegiance to local, rather than national, interests?
Sectionalism
What is a person who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionist
When is your vocab test?
Friday
What a group of special French colonial laws regulating the institution of slavery.
Code Noir
What is the Period of economic expansion in the early 1830s?
Flush Times
What was our first state constitution, which was written before Mississippi was admitted to statehood?
Constitution of 1817
What was the US Supreme Court decision in 1857 that ruled Dred Scott had not been freed even though he was taken into free territory, that slaves were recognized as personal property under the US Constitution, and that slave owners could not be restricted from taking their slaves or other personal property into any state or territory?
Dred Scott Decision
How many vocabulary words do you have?
20
What is the flowing together of two bodies of water?
Confluence
What is the overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez?
Natchez Trace
What is a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country?
Colonies
What is the 1820 compromise in the US Congress that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory, about the 36-degree, 30’ parallel, and allowed slavery below the 36-degree 30’ line?
Missouri Compromise
When does this class end?
December
What was the treaty that ended the American Revolution and recognized the 13 colonies as an independent nation called the United States of America?
Treaty of Paris 1783
Who were members of the Freedom Democratic Party, which claimed to be loyal to the national party organization?
Loyalists
What is the privilege of depositing or storing goods (in New Orleans), which goods would later be exported to Europe without having to pay duties or taxes?
Right of Deposit
What is a tax placed on manufactured goods that are imported into America from foreign countries? Its purpose is to protect American manufacturers.
Protective Tariff
How many people in the class names start with J?
3
What are 500 young women brought to the French colonies to marry single men?
Casquette Girls
What was the treaty that ended the French and Indian War?
Treaty of Paris 1763
What was an order issued by the English government that temporarily prohibited immigration into the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the MS River?
Proclamation 1763
What was the purchase in 1803 of the vast territory of Louisiana from France, which more than doubled the size of the US?
Louisiana Purchase
How many weeks till Thanksgiving?
3 weeks