U.S. History Unit 1

Act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30

A preference that prevents one from being impartial

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.

A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

An act of official approval or confirmation

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

- Those rights listed in the Declaration of Independence that cannot be taken away: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

laws enacted by Southern States and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.

a plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.

A policy that calls for expanding a nation's boundaries, A policy that calls for expanding a nations boundaries.

A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.

Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west

the massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, 1890.

1887 law that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual Native American owners.

A designated area of federal land assigned by the Gov't for Native Americans' relocation