Amendments
The right to freedom of speech.
Citizens can participate in local, state, and federal elections by doing what
What is voting
The 3 branches of government
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Favored a strong government
Federalists
Freed slaves in most Southern states.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Protects against unlawful search and seizures.
The Fourth Amendment
Local laws passed by cities, towns, or counties
What is an Ordinance
What is the highest court in the U.S.
What is the Supreme Court
Favored states rights did not like strong central government
Anti-Federalists
Declared our independence from Great Britain
The Declaration of Independence
The right to a speedy trial by jury and judge.
The Sixth Amendment
Limited the amount of debt the state accumulate, and created a new judiciary system
What is The Ohio Constitution of 1851
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is checks and balances
Following Reconstruction racial discrimination was institutionalized through
Jim Crow laws and segregation policies
The supreme law of the land
The Constitution
Abolished Slavery
The Thirteenth Amendment
Why do some state have more Representatives than other states
What is the state's population
Who vetos bills
What is the President
Immigration and internal migration during the late 1800s and early 1900s resulted in
Rapid urbanization and transformation of American life
The first ten amendments of the constitution
The Bill of Rights
Women's right to vote
The Nineteenth Amendment
What is the title of the highest political official in a U.S. state
Governor
Who makes federal laws
What is Congress
The Harlem Renaissance was significant because it
Represented a flowering of African American culture and arts
Established a process for territories to become states and recognized natural rights
The Northwest Ordinance 1787