History STAAR Vocabulary Test

Withdrawal from the Union

• Laissez Faire

• Scalawags

• Confederation

• Secession

Basic rights of the people that may not be taken away

• Unalienable Rights

• Civil Disobedience

• Property Rights

• Protective Tariffs

A law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed

• Nullification

• Northwest Ordinance

• 2nd Great Awakening

• Free Enterprise System

Are at least 18 yrs old

Lived as a legal immigrant in the US for a specific period of time

Lived for a specific period of time in the state or US territory from where you are applying

Have "good moral character" and have not been convicted of certain crimes

Can speak, read, and write in English

Know the basics of US History, Government, and Civics

Understand and have an attachment to the US Constitution

• Protective Tariffs

• Communication Systems

• Criteria to become a citizen

• Carpet baggers

Proposal to create a weak national Government

• Virginia Plan

• Free Enterprise System

• American System

• New Jersey Plan

The thing that carries the message

• Property rights

• Communication Systems

• Confederation

• Radical Reconstruction

An action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects

• 2nd Great Awakening

• Northwest Ordinance

• Urbanization

• Nullification

Proposal to create a strong national government

• New Jersey Plan

• Urbanization

• Virginia Plan

• American System

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Radical Reconstruction

• Trail of Tears

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Protective Tariffs

Compromise made by the Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on the population in the other house

• Great Compromise

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Carpetbaggers