Slavery in the United States
Origins
Origins
This document was the first attempt at writing a
constitution
What is the articles of confederation
After the revolution this was abolished by most states as a qualification for voting?
What is property
As opposed to a bi-cameral legislature, this is what the framers of the Constitution first considered?
What is a unicameral legislature.
This theory of government assured that no branch of government had too much power?
What is a separation or balance of powers.
This is the law-making branch of the U.S. Government?
What is the legislative body or Congress.
This political faction supported the idea of a strong central government in writing the Constitution?
What are the Federalists.
These documents, written by Jefferson in 1784, and 1785, called for the division of the newly available western land to be divided into territories, the use of a grid system to define property lines, established the price of land and the process for statehood?
What are Land Ordinances.
These two state plans were the models for the U.S. Constitution?
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
To protect the property of southern slave owners, the Constitutional delegates agree to what clause in the Constitution?
What was the Fugitive Slave Clause.
The opponents of the Constitution feared that the government would be dominated by which social class?
What are the wealthy or monied elite.
This series of 85 essays published in American newspapers by James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton argued the need for a strong central government?
What are the Federalist Papers.
This act passed by Congress created a federal court in each state and provided circuit courts to hear appeals with final say by the Supreme Court?
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Political supporters of Thomas Jefferson who viewed the states as the essential foundation of the U.S. government and believed the states should have the right to veto federal legislation?
Who were the Republicans.
This event was considered an insult to the United States when the French foreign minister Talleyrand solicited a bribe from American diplomats before they would stop the illegal search and seizures of American ships?
What is the XYZ Affair.
The Republicans, led by Jefferson, charged that these new laws were unconstitutional as it violated the First Amendment?
The Alien and Sedition Acts.
This election year saw Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie for the presidency causing the election to be decided by the U.S. House of Representatives?
The election of 1800.
This astute real estate purchase by President Jefferson doubled the country's size in 1893?
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
These were the common methods employed the country's new Indian commissioners, state officials and land speculators to force the native people to give up their lands?
What were military threats, liquor and bribes.
This Indian alliance contested the U.S. government's claim of the land that formed the trans-Appalachian West and fought to keep it in 1790, 1791, and 1794?
What is the Western Confederacy.
This activity off the coast of Africa forced Jefferson to change his mind about the need for an American navy?
What are the raids on American merchant ships and crews and the demand for ransom by the Barbary Coast pirates.
This practice of the British to seize American sailors and force them into the service of the Royal Navy is a major cause of the War of 1812?
What is "impressment."
This law, signed into law by Jefferson, forbid American ships to leave their home port until Britain and France repealed their restrictions on American trade?
What is the Embargo Act of 1807.
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
This battle, which actually occurred after the treaty ending the War of 1812 had been signed made Andrew Jackson a national hero?
What is the Battle of New Orleans.
This treaty officially ended the War of 1812?
The Treaty of Ghent