Vocabulary
What is the definition of ratify?
To accept.
What physical features make up the United States?
The physical features that make up the the United States are land forms including mountains, canyons, plateaus.
What did English settlers hope to find in North America?
Riches such as golden silver.
What did the Anti-federalists think about the Constitution?
The Anti-federalists thought the Constitution threatened the freedoms won by declaring independence.
What word means a long deep gap in the earth?
Canyon.
What is the definition of tax?
Money citizens pay to their government for services.
Where do the "Rockies" get their name from?
Their sharp rocky peaks.
What did the colonists call the laws that the Parliament passed?
Intolerable Acts.
How many senators are in each state?
2
What word means someone who speaks or acts for others?
Delegate.
What is the definition of self-government?
When a group of people make laws for themselves.
What states do The Appalachians start and end at?
Maine to Alabama.
Where did colonists ship their resources to?
England, Africa, West Indies.
How was the amount of delegates picked for each state?
Depending on the population of the state.
What did European explorers influence when they came back from the New Land?
To sail to the New Land.
What is the definition of plateau?
A high, steep-sided land form that rises above the surroundings.
Water from how many states enters through the Mississippi River?
31 states
What was on the ships sailing from Europe?
Enslaved Africans, tea, spices, and furniture.
In what year did all the states ratify the Constitution?
1788
When was the first plan for the national government approved?
In 1781
What is the definition of proprietor?
A person who owned and controlled all the land of a colony.
What are 3 of the land form regions that make up the United States?
Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Central Plains, Basins and Ranges, Coast Ranges, Appalachian Mountains, Canadian Shield, Ozark Plateau, Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains.
What was the colonists' response to the Tea Act?
They dumped tea from British ships into Boston Harbor.
What does the legislative branch do?
They make national laws.
When did Virginia colonists form the house of Burgesses?
In 1619