______ became the first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation.

Both the Enlightenment and the _____ served to emphasize an individualism that supported America's political independence.

In Europe, the _____ brought a rebirth of interest in ancient Greece and Rome, a renewed commitment to reason, and a scientific revolution that would make sea travel easier.

In the seventeenth century, English business and government leaders saw _____ as sources of raw materials and as markets for English goods.

Anthropologists think the first people to build a civilization in America were the

The men who led expeditions to conquer what today is Mexico and Central America became known as

Who argued that governments exist because people allow them to exist

What became known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts?

____ is the taking of States out of the Union.

____ is the idea that God hath given the continent to Americans and wanted them to settle western lands.

____ is the official takeover of territory.

_____ was an antislavery novel that changed Northern perceptions of slavery.

_____ organized the Nebraska Territory.

Texas joined the Union in

On February 2, 1848, Mexico's leaders signed the

The issue of slavery's expansion divided the country not along party lines, but along

A free African American could be falsely taken into custody under the terms of the

If California entered the Union as a free state, the slaveholding states would become a minority in the