third hour vocab review

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  1. 4. War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
  2. 5. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  3. 7. on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free
  4. 8. 1st us president
  5. 9. a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
  6. 10. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi.
  7. 11. armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
  8. 13. a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey
  9. 14. The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  10. 16. King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820
  11. 18. an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
  12. 20. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
  13. 22. a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state of Kansas and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming.
  14. 24. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents).
  15. 25. In response to Pontiac's Rebellion, a revolt of Native Americans led by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limits to colonial settlers.
  16. 26. a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies.
  17. 27. pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies
  18. 29. the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  1. 1. also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act
  2. 2. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
  3. 3. series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances.
  4. 6. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  5. 9. this treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico
  6. 12. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
  7. 13. the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army
  8. 15. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
  9. 17. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  10. 19. Rather than being a cross between two entirely separate systems, democratic republics may function on principles shared by both republics and democracies.
  11. 21. 3rd U.S. President
  12. 23. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
  13. 28. action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.