1st Semester Vocabulary/American History

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  1. 2. Is a form of government in which the country is considered a ''public mother.''
  2. 4. Was an American political, leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States.
  3. 6. Was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  4. 7. Famous actor who shoot president Lincoln.
  5. 8. Was an american social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, he became a national leader or the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
  6. 14. Is a form of democracy in which people decide an policy initiatives directly.
  7. 17. The plan was created in response to the Virginia plan, which convent for two houses of congress.
  8. 18. Was a political and mercantile protest by The Sons of Liberty boycotting the King in Boston Massachusetts.
  9. 25. Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  10. 27. This act passed on July 1, 1862 provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.
  11. 28. Was a proposal to the United State constitutional convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three and a bicameral legislature.
  12. 29. Was an armed conflict between the United States and the Mexican territory, since the government did not recognize the treaty signed by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
  13. 30. Was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Chayenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
  14. 31. Guarantees voting right to all citizens of the United States.
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  1. 1. Was a massacre of Cheyenne and Aropaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian War that occurred on November 29,1864.
  2. 3. Expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain.
  3. 5. Defines citizenship to include African Americans.
  4. 9. An act regulating stamp duty on the legal recognition of documents.
  5. 10. Was the acquisition of the territory by The United States from France in 1805.
  6. 11. Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  7. 12. Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
  8. 13. Officially tittle the Treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.
  9. 15. A conflict primarily fought between Britain and France over New World territory, ended with a British Victory.
  10. 16. The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a practical state.
  11. 19. Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individuals plots.
  12. 20. Was a landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court in which the court held that the U.S. constitution was not meant to include American citizenship from black people.
  13. 21. Is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
  14. 22. Was a conflict fought between The United State and its allies against The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
  15. 23. The belief that it was America's god given right to expand from ocean to ocean to justify all wrong doings.
  16. 24. The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
  17. 26. A person who is against slavery.