Unit 1
Which branch of Government implements and governs laws?
The Executive branch
What are the differences between primary and secondary sources?
Primary sources come from people at a place, time, or event while a secondary source is written or made after the fact.
Define Abolitionism
Anti-Slavery movement
The Break away, Rebellion of states created this government and country.
The Confederate States of America
The shortest war in history, lasting less than 40 minutes on August 27, 1896.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War
Which Amendment in the Constitution states "Powers not given to the Federal government are reserved for the States or the people".
The 9th Amendment
What was the act signed by Andrew Jackson that Forced Native Americans to walk the Trail of Tears?
The Indian Removal Act
What is the Missouri Compromise?
a law that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state at the same time to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states in Congress
What was the 13th Amendment?
Abolishing Slavery
The Althingi, established in 930 AD, is the world's oldest parliament. What country was this in?
Iceland
Define Popular Sovereignty
Government for the people by the people.
Define Assimilation
the process by which a minority group or culture adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of a society's majority group
political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.
a U.S. government agency that helped formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the years after the Civil War
Freedman's Bureau
Where is the real Pocahontas buried?
The United Kingdom
What are enumerated powers?
Powers directly given to congress as stated in the Constitution.
What happen in the Dawes Act of 1887
a law passed by Congress in 1887 that broke up tribal lands and gave them to individual Native Americans
an attack on Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks in the United States Senate on May 22, 1856
Caning of Charles Sumner
a mythologized interpretation of the American Civil War that portrays the Confederacy's cause as honorable and just, and downplays the role of slavery in the conflict
The Lost Cause Myth
What island is home to 887 Giant stone head statues?
Easter island
What is the name of the clause that regulates interstate trade and who has the power wield this clause?
Interstate Commerce Clause
What happen and who was involved with the wounded Knee Massacre of 1890?
deadliest mass shooting in American history involving 300 Lakota people who were shot and killed by US American military.
Abolitionist attempted to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).
John Brown's Raid at Haper's Ferry.
a legal arrangement where a tenant would work a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced and living accommodations
sharecropping
How was the black Death / Bubonic Plague transmitted?
RATS!