Early America
This theory of government assured that no branch of government had too much power.
What is a separation or balance of powers?
The 19th-century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
This President is the only President in American history to achieve his presidential goals. (Mr. Sable's Favorite President)
This is the law-making branch of the U.S. Government.
What is the legislative body or Congress?
During this Anglo-American war, the British sailed up the Potomac and set fire to the White House and other government buildings.
What is the War of 1812?
After September 11, congress passed security legislation in order to make the country safer. It gives the authorities enhanced powers, such as looking up library records, to protect the country.
What is the Patriot Act?
America's Foreign Policy Post World War 2
What is Containment?
This document was the first attempt at writing a constitution?
What is the Articles of Confederation.
This rebellion which took place in Massachusetts in 1786, challenged the new state government's right to impose property qualifications for voting, levy taxes, put debtors and prison, and confiscate property to pay the debt.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Supreme Court case that enforced judicial Power 1803
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This ordinance, also penned by Jefferson, prohibited slavery in what came to be called the Northwest Territory ( the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin).
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. Court ruled that race was 'suspect classification', and exclusion was necessary during wartime.
What is Korematsu v. U.S?
Congress established this organization to regulate the stock market and make it a safer place for investments following the stock market crash on October 29, 1929 preceding the Great Depression
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission? (SEC)
The Republicans, led by Jefferson, charged that these new laws were unconstitutional as it violated the First Amendment.
What are The Alien and Sedition Acts?
1892, A strike at a Carnegie steel plant in Homestead, P.A., ended in an armed battle between the strikers, three hundred armed "Pinkerton" detectives hired by Carnegie, and federal troops, which killed ten people and wounded more than sixty. The strike was part of a nationwide wave of labor unrest in the summer of 1892 that helped the Populists gain some support from industrial workers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Court ruled freedom of speech is not constitutionally protected due to 'clear and present danger'. "Shouting fire in a crowded theater"
What is Schenck v United States?