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- July 4,1776
- TN becomes a state
- Virginia
- one of the 13 colonies
- Congress
- national head of the Legislative Branch
- land and riches
- European countries competed for these things in the new world
- Executive Branch
- executes or carries out the laws of the lands
- Bill of Rights
- 10 amendments added to the Constitution
- gun powder,iron kettles,disease
- 3 things explorers brought into the new world
- secession
- to leave
- Articles of Confederation
- first form of government for America
- President
- national head of the Executive Branch
- Judicial Branch
- decides if the laws are constitutional; judges them
- Declaration of Independence
- declared to Great Britain independence for America
- Civil War
- war between the states; North and South
- abolutionists
- people against slavery
- Cherokee
- largest native american tribe in southwest
- Revolutionary War
- war in which the English colonist fought for independence
- Confederate States of America
- formed when US beat Great Britain in Revolutionary War
- states rights
- belief that state governments should have control over the laws of the land.
- Colonists
- won the American Revolution
- Supreme Court
- national head of the Judicial Branch; highest order of courts
- France and Great Britain
- fought each other in the French and Indian War
- slavery
- unfair treatment of african americans that the economy of the South depended on before Civil War
- US Constitution
- formed the government for a new nation
- Legislative Branch
- make the laws of the land
- antebellum
- before the war