The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad greatly affected companies that made products in that it made it far easier for them to transport their goods over long distances to markets, which greatly increased profits and output.
Limited government = A principle of constitutional government; a government whose powers are defined and limited by a constitution.
the executive branch = the branch of government that carries out laws
supreme law of the land = Constitution
amendments = a way of changing the Constitution in order to adapt. It made the Constitution flexible and not rigid.
federalism = power is balanced between the states and the national government.
republicanism = the people exercise their power by voting and their political representatives
senate = the upper house of Congress; based on an equal number of representation for each state.
individual rights = personal liberties or privileges
the commander in chief = term for the president as commander of the nation's armed forces
War and violence. While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
23 officially recognized independent states
