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Define Alaska Statehood Act:
Declared Alaska to be a state of the United States
The _____________ _____________ doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
The State of Alaska was purchased by the U.S. from?
Russia
Name a state that owns less than 17 percent of its land?
Nevada
Define what an "Enabling Act" is or allows?
It gives the federal government ownership rights and privileges such as usage and taxation
Which enabling act allowed the federal government to decide where roads would be made allowing the federal government to be an authority inside a sovereign state?
Ohio Enabling Act
What did the Constitution guarantee to every state in the Union?
A Republican form of government
The federal government started owning land when?
The original 13 states ceded title of more than 40 percent of their western lands
Those who reject the constitutional interpretation of the Founders regarding federal ownership of land claim what?
That the "means" that the government came to own land justifies the laws that govern that land
Who said: "If the Western States are to be admitted to the Union, they must be treated as equals and subject to no degrading discrimination."?
George Mason
The federal government owns ________ of all U.S. land.
Nearly 30%
What is interposition?
The action of a state while exercising its sovereignty in rejecting a federal mandate that it believes is unconstitutional or overreaching
Who said that property rights and personal rights are the same thing?
Calvin Coolidge
Who said "the Western states neither would nor ought to submit to union which degraded them from an equal rank with the other States."
James Madison
The Equal Footing Doctrine prohibits what?
Permanent federal land ownership
What is Nullification?
The act of making something void; the action of a State in abrogating a federal law on the basis of State sovereignty
Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
VT, KY, TN, AK, MI, FL, KS, ID, and WY were admitted without what?
Enabling Acts
Which statehood act declares the state to be under the ownership of the federal government?
Alaska Statehood Act