AmErIcAn HiStOrY!?!?!?!!?

Question 1

Plurality

Answer 1

the largest share

Question 2

Majority

Answer 2

more than half

Question 3

Bureaucracy

Answer 3

a rule-governed, hierarchical system in which non-elected officials carry out laws

Question 4

Spoils System

Answer 4

the practice of incoming presidents replacing current government employees with their supporters

Question 5

Nominating Convention

Answer 5

a meeting in which delegates choose a party’s candidate

Question 6

Tariff

Answer 6

a tax on imported goods

Question 7

Charter

Answer 7

a government permit or license

Question 8

Depression

Answer 8

a severe economic downturn

Question 9

mountain men

Answer 9

an individual who lived independently in the wild

Question 10

Reservation

Answer 10

area of land set apart for a tribe or tribes

Question 11

migrate

Answer 11

to move from one place to another

Question 12

missionary

Answer 12

person who travels to promote his or her religion

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emigrant

Answer 13

person who leaves his/her country to live elsewhere

Question 14

Prairie schooner

Answer 14

covered wagon

Question 15

Manifest destiny

Answer 15

the idea that the United States was destined to span the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Question 16

tejano

Answer 16

a Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent

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decree

Answer 17

an official command

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annex

Answer 18

to take possession of

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trigger

Answer 19

to cause to start, set off

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justify

Answer 20

to prove or show to be right

Question 21

Forty-niner

Answer 21

a person who arrived in California in 1849 to search for gold

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Boomtown

Answer 22

a town that grows very quickly

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Vigilante

Answer 23

a private citizen who tries to enforce the law or punish suspected lawbreakers

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Prospect

Answer 24

to look for mineral deposits

Question 25

persecution

Answer 25

hostility, harassment, and other ill-treatment