ERA-6 Vocabulary Practice

What is suffrage?

• the right to say whatever you want.

• thr right to move around how ever you want.

• the right to vote

What is annexxation?

• the decision to go and steal land from others.

• When homes are blended.

• the incorporating of a country or territory into another country

  or territory

• when people make the laws.

What is a joint resolution?

• when people decide to stick together.

• When only one group makes the decisions.

• when two groups decide to leave their land.

• a statement passed by both houses of a legislature that has the

  force of law

What does "cede" mean"?

• to formally give up ownership of something such as land

• to give another person money.

• to let someone stay at your house rent free.

• to allow others to borrow your personal belongings.

What is popular soverenity?

• rule by farmers

• rule by animals

• rule by GOD

• rule by the people

What is the purpose of a "reservation"?

• land set aside for Mexican Aemaricans

• land set aside for African Americans

• land set aside for Native Americans

• land set aside for White Americans

What is public land?

• land owned by the government

• land owned by the indians

• land owned by the slaves

• land owned by the childrens parents

Which answer below best describes "cession"?

• the granting of land from one person to another

• the granting of land from one country to another

What is "Manifest Destiny"?

• the belief popular in the United States in the 1800s that the

  country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

• the belief popular in the United States in the 1800s that the

  country must expand its boundaries to the Atlantic Ocean

What is the definition of a "compromise"?

• an agreement in which each side gets nothing that it wants.

• an agreement in which each side gets everything it wants

• an agreement in which each side cannot decide what it wants

• an agreement in which each side gives up something it wants