History Vocab

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  1. 3. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  2. 6. state constitutional provisions mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains between white and black people
  3. 9. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
  4. 10. 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
  5. 15. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
  6. 18. was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France
  7. 19. series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
  8. 21. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
  9. 25. political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
  10. 27. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  11. 29. This royal proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763, closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia
  12. 30. First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869
  13. 31. British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
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  1. 1. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  2. 2. formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was 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
  3. 4. authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots
  4. 5. pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  5. 7. a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848
  6. 8. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery
  7. 11. Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
  8. 12. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
  9. 13. a series of forced relocation's of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850
  10. 14. a slave who sued for freedom but was denied for being considered property
  11. 16. small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey
  12. 17. joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown
  13. 20. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
  14. 22. a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy
  15. 23. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)
  16. 24. was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29
  17. 26. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  18. 28. a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies