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vinney12 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

a. headrights.
b. burgesses.
c. indentured servants.
d. slaves.
e. birds of passage.

Question 2

Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of

a. two-thirds Senate approval of the Treaty of Annexation.
b. a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations.
c. a presidential executive order by President Tyler.
d. the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
e. a political compromise to admit free-state Iowa at the same time.