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- 2. was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763,
- 5. 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.
- 7. granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that 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."
- 9. the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781
- 11. British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
- 16. American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father
- 17. 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.
- 18. United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- 20. a tax on the legal recognition of documents
- 21. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- 22. form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
- 24. was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
- 28. American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist.
- 31. known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
- 33. was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary
- 35. a large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops.
- 37. were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
- 38. began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America
- 39. was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. ... It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845
- 40. authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
- 41. massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29,
- 42. was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
- 43. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9
- 44. was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies
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- 1. Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
- 3. was 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.
- 4. signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico
- 6. pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
- 8. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father
- 10. was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people
- 12. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 13. was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
- 14. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- 15. 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.
- 19. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham
- 23. The plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population.
- 25. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- 26. to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
- 27. King of Great Britain and King of Ireland
- 29. was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
- 30. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- 32. series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade trade between the imperialist states and the colonial and dependent countries
- 34. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
- 36. is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy