Vocabulary Part 1
The act of growing larger
What is expansion?
An agreement between two nations.
What is a treaty?
This way of adding land is the reason we have states like Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Connecticut.
What is war?
This agreement allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state, and Maine to enter the United States as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Factories were in the North and Plantations were in the South.
What are the two main economies in the United States?
The area of land used, owned, or under the power of a certain group.
What is a territory?
Land controlled by a foreign government.
Massachusetts used to be one.
What is a colony?
This way of adding land to the United States is the reason we have states like Louisiana and Alaska.
What is purchasing?
This agreement allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to join the United States and CHOOSE whether they joined as a slave or free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Hint: Looking for WHO said this quote.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Land that is controlled by its own government, but ruled by a larger national government.
What is a state?
An indigenous group that has sovereignty and its own system of government.
What is an indigenous nation?
This way of adding land to the United States is the reason we have states like Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
What is a treaty?
Frederick Douglass said the Constitution is all about freedom. This should apply to EVERYONE.
What is a reason the North wanted new states to be added as free states?
The people that represent states to make decisions. There are TWO for each state.
What are senators?
A large area of land controlled by its own government
What is a nation?
The traditional area of an indigenous nation.
What is ancestral land?
This way of adding land to the United States is the reason we have states like Texas and Hawaii.
What is annexation?
If there were more free states than slave states, the South was worried they'd have to give up their way of life.
What is a reason the South wanted new states to be added as slave states?
Colonies would have a stronger protection against threats and be able to gain wealth from the United States.
What is a benefit to becoming a state?
The power of a nation to govern itself and make its own laws.
What is sovereignty?
When one nation takes territory of another nation by force.
What is annexation?
When the United States was expanding and adding land, they completely disregarded this group of people.
What are indigenous nations?
New land in the west could be used to make more plantations, which would require slave labor.
What is a reason the South wanted new states to be added as slave states?
A rule that must be followed in a town, state, or even country.
What is an Ordinance?