Alijah Birmingham
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- 1. A plan unsuccessfully proposed at the constitutional convention providing a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- 7. he was the aid to George Washington and was a founding father.
- 8. guaranteed black men the right to vote.
- 10. great Britain and the thirteen colonies go to war during the american revolutionary war the american colonist win.
- 11. ended the war between the united states and mexico mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory including parts of Arizona, California, new mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada,and Utah.
- 12. acts of trade and navigation, English laws that regulated English ships, shipping,trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
- 14. Britain gets taxed for sugar.
- 16. regulated land rights on tribal territories within the united states. The president of the united states could subdivide native american tribal.
- 17. helped black and whites in the south after the civil war.
- 18. provided federal subsides in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across across the u.s. They were called the union pacific and the central pacific.
- 22. the king who taxed the colonists and was unfair to them.
- 23. A peaceful protest by the sons of liberty they dumped the old tea that the king gave them.
- 24. acres of land that produces one or two cash crops for sale.
- 26. two railroad companies the union pacific and the central pacific, to construct the lines "men of talent, men of character, men who are willing to invest" nations first.
- 29. British saw the american colonists as tenants who paid rent by providing materials for Britain to use.
- 31. state and local laws that that enforced racial segregation in the southern united states.
- 32. A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state through elected representatives.
- 37. they helped free slaves.
- 40. Americas force crushes British hessian forces, Washington raided across the Delaware river.
- 41. a document created for the king to tell them they want to be independent from him.
- 42. granted citizenship to people who had been enslaved.
- 43. laid by fur traders and trappers and was only passable by foot or by horseback.
- 44. a war between Britain and the united states they fought because of British violations of america shipping rights.
- 45. he led the colonist to victory for independence and he was the first president of the united states.
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- 2. made by president Lincoln to say that all slaves under the confederacy were from then on forever free.
- 3. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
- 4. volunteers attack Cheyenne and Arapaho people thinking that they are worriers but are women and children.
- 5. The Louisiana purchase made america bigger and was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi river.
- 6. a conflict between mexico and america because of the annexation of the republic of Texas and where Texas ended at the Nueces river or the Rio grande.
- 9. Britain against the french and their native american allies, part of their conflict known in Europe was the seven year war.
- 13. Abolished slavery.
- 15. the belief of expansion ocean to ocean.
- 19. the place where Robert e lee surrendered and ended the american civil war.
- 20. an abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer.
- 21. it allowed slavery to be legal in all states and he could not sue because he was not a citizen.
- 25. people to decide on policy initiatives directly. representative democracies.
- 27. Custer and his men fight to the death against sitting bulls Lakota and Cheyenne.
- 28. declared by the British crown at the end of the french and Indian war in north america.
- 30. a plan proposed at the constitutional covention, providing for a legislation of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
- 33. the route where america forced native americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
- 34. a founding father and the third president of the united states.
- 35. A tax on the legal recognition of documents.
- 36. the first ten amendments to the us constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, assembly, and worship.
- 38. assassinated the president of the united states Abraham Lincoln.
- 39. to remove or break away as the southern states did from the union.