1ST 9 WEEKS
A representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area.
What is map?
A Spanish policy that granted land and its inhabitants (Native Americans) to soldiers and colonists.
What is the encomienda?
A region that is governed by the federal government.
What is a Territory?
The sys of fundamental principles according to which a nation or state is governed.
What is a Constitution?
Violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler.
What is a Rebellion?
These two terms represent fixed and relative locations.
What are absolute and relative location?
Meaning native.
Who is indigenous?
An area of land in the US that is kept separate as a place for Native Americans to live.
What is a Reservation?
Allows Indian tribes to create governments entirely separate from the national, state, or local government.
What is a Tribal Government?
Dishonest in business practices.
What is corrupt?
This is a naturally occurring boundary or ridge that affects the flow of water.
What is a Continental Divide
Belief in, reverence for, or worship of a god or gods.
What is religion?
To absorb or conform to the customs and attitudes of a particular cultural group.
What is Assimilate?
The branch of government that is responsible for implementing, supporting, and enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The exchange of products or materials or the buying and selling of things.
What is Commerce?
This is a water-bearing stratum of permeable rock, sand, or gravel.
What is an aquifer?
A Spanish conqueror of foreign lands in the 16th century.
What is a Conquistador?
A persons home and land.
What is a Homestead?
These two branches create laws and interpret the law
What are the Legislative and Judicial Branches of Government?
The belief that expansion of the US throughout the American continent was a God-given right and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
That people speak both English and Spanish in Clovis is a characteristic of this.
What is Human characteristic of Place?
A particular group's beliefs, customs, art, etc.
What is culture?
To add or to join with.
What is to Annex?
These 3 types of Direct Democracy allow citizens to remove an elected official from office, vote on laws and constitutional amendments passed by legislature, and draft a law or amendment to be put on the ballot?
What are recall, referendum and reform?
To hand over.
What is to Cede?