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Territorial Expansion
Constitutional Changes
Government Branches and Roles
History/Geograph 1
History/Geography 2
100
A deal that doubled the size of the United States and secured the country's control of the Mississippi River when a great amount of land was purchased from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The constitutional amendment that resulted in the abolition of slavery in all U.S. states and territories
What is the 13th amendment?
100
The three branches of the U.S. federal government
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
100
The cause of the American Civil War from the Southern perspective
What is slavery (or the protection of slavery)?
100
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
200

The deal through which the southernmost parts of Arizona and New Mexico were added to the United States

What is the Gadsen Purchase?
200

The constitutional amendment that resulted in voting rights for all male citizens of voting age, regardless of race or ethnicity

What is the 15th amendment?
200
The branch in charge of writing and passing laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
200

The Interior Plains (Great Plains region) of the United States is BEST described as this type of economic region

What is agricultural (farming)?
200
The environmental disaster that occurred during the Great Depression as a result of severe drought and lack of crop rotation
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
The idea that the United States was destined by God to expand to the west coast and spread democracy and the American way of life
What is Manifest Destiny?
300

The constitutional amendment that resulted in the right to vote for all women of voting age

What is the 19th amendment?
300
The system put in place that separates the powers among the three branches and that is designed to prevent one person/group from becoming too powerful
What are checks and balances?
300

The region in which you would likely live if you were a fisherman for crab and other seafood

What is the Northeast region?
300
The executive order that freed all of the slaves in the South during the Civil War but was not really enforceable. Some argue it changes the goal of the war for the North. 
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
These are the territories acquired by the U.S. following the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
400
The practice that was put in place by the 18th amendment, was later repealed by the 21st amendment, and lasted from 1920 to 1933
What is the prohibition of alcohol?
400
A check the President has on Congress that allows him/her to block a bill from becoming a law. It can be overturned by a 2/3 majority vote in Congress.
What is a veto (presidential veto)?
400
The period following the American Civil War during which the government rebuilt the South, brought the former Confederate States back into the Union, and passed many laws designed to grant rights to African Americans
What is Reconstruction (or the Reconstruction Era)?
400

It improved transportation to the western United States, allowing for more goods to be shipped to and from the West and increasing the population of the West. It also negatively impacted the buffalo and the Native American tribes.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
The result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. California and other previously Mexico-owned western territories.
What is the Mexican Cession?
500

The constitutional amendment that resulted in citizenship and equal protection of the laws for anyone born or naturalized in the U.S.

What is the 14th amendment?
500
The branch of government with the Supreme Court Justice as the highest position; interprets the law and can throw out laws if they are unconstitutional
What is the Judicial Branch?
500

As Americans moved west, still more of this group moved to the United States, giving it a continuous source of labor, and contributing to the economic growth and development of the country.

What are immigrants?
500

As early as the 1830s, most of the landowners in the South believed their large plantations could only survive with this because the cotton needed to be picked by hand.

What is slavery?