What is the difference between the colonies and the mother country? ?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. —"the gettysburg address," abraham lincoln which quotation correctly uses an ellipsis to shorten lincoln’s words?

1.     in what kind of government does a small group have a firm control over a country?  

The event shown in the map is a cause of which of the following? *pic* gadsden purchase battle of the alamo bear flag revolt settlement of texas