US History Vocab

2. What is the legislative branch of the United States government, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate?
4. What laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States after the Civil War until the Civil Rights Movement?
6. What is a large agricultural estate typically worked by resident labor, often historically associated with slavery?
11. What is a change or addition to a legal or statutory document, especially the Constitution?
12. What system ensures that no single branch of government becomes too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the powers of the others?
13. What is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment?
14. Which executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free?
15. What is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable?

1. Which document, adopted on July 4, 1776, declared the thirteen American colonies independent from British rule?
3. What term refers to the movement to end the practice of slavery?
5. What term describes a war between citizens of the same country?
7. Which form of government has a single ruler, often a king or queen, who inherits their position?
8. Rights What are rights that are believed to be granted by nature or God and that cannot be taken away?
9. What is the term for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting?
10. What term describes the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state?