1st Vocab Words

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

A system where residents vote to decide an issue which is what resolved little of the Nebraska Kansas act.

Question 2

Civil war

Answer 2

A war between the North and the South regarding slavery.

Question 3

Freedman’s Bureu

Answer 3

A Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil war with education and food

Question 4

Manifest destiny

Answer 4

The belief that the United States was Destin to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean

Question 5

Democracy

Answer 5

A system of government in which the people elect their representatives

Question 6

Nativism

Answer 6

The policy of protecting the interests of nativeborn against those of immigrants

Question 7

Reconstruction

Answer 7

The process the U.S. Government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War. It also rebuilt the southern infrastructure

Question 8

Women’s Rights

Answer 8

Right to vote