Vocabulary
A movement to end slavery and the slave trade.
What is Abolition?
These are the branches of government. One makes laws, one ensures they are followed, and one interprets the law.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches.
This is the rural section of the U.S. They relied on slave labor and large-scale farming on plantations. Their main export were cash crops like cotton and tobacco.
What is the South?
This was a form of resistance slaves showed to overseers who forced them to convert religions.
What is combining Christian and African rituals?
This region of Washington contains large cities such as Seattle, Tacoma, and Everet. It is the heart of Washington and is a large tech industry hub.
What are the Puget Lowlands?
A formal change made in a document or law editing, deleting, and/or adding to the existing document. This can be made to various legal documents.
What is an Amendment?
The freedoms of Speech, Religion, Petition, Assembly, and the Press.
What is the First Amendment?
This was the most industrialized area of the U.S. in 1850, and even contained 64 of America's 100 largest cities.
What is the North?
This is a large aspect of enslaved African culture, where they used vocals, foot stomping, and clapping. This would later expand to many genres.
What is music?
This region contains the Olympic Mountains and Willapa Hills. It has a low population, falling lumber and fishing industry, rainforests, and five Native reservations.
What is the Coastal Range?
A government in which the people have the power to make political decisions.
What is a Democracy?
This case established the Necessary & Proper clause for the government to hold any power necessary to function, and the Federal Supremacy clause making it illegal for states to interfere in federal activity.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This area of the U.S. was filled with religious missions, fur trapping, and gold mining.
What is the West?
This was one method used by overseers to keep slaves in line. It led to slaves creating a family culture, where children called all enslaved adults "aunt" or "uncle", and all enslaved children "brother" and "sister."
What was the selling of family members?
This region is also known as the Okanogan Highlands, and is the least populated region in Washington.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Laws drafted by individual states and colonies in the South to define the lack of rights of enslaved African Americans.
What were the Slave Codes?
This case was the first time the Supreme Court used judicial review, overturning decisions made by the Legislative Branch and establishing the checks & balances between the Judicial and Legislative Branches.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This idea was coined by John O' Sullivan, and was the belief that Americans were destined to expand the country from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This person was born into slavery in 1818, later escaped at 20, becoming the face of abolition in Massachusetts.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This region is also known as the Columbia Plateau, is the driest land in the PNW, grows apples, cherries, and wheat, and its economic center is Spokane.
What is the Columbia Basin?
A method of governing, it is based on three distinct principles; a citizen can only be prosecuted for a crime, no one is above the law, and laws must be based on universally understood principles.
What is the Rule of Law?
These are the principles the U.S.A were founded under. They are the belief that people are born with certain rights, power comes from the people, everyone is held to the law, and the government cannot control your decisions.
What are Natural Rights, Popular Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and Limited Government?
Manifest Destiny came with many consequences, including:
What are deadly diseases for the Natives and broken treaties with the Natives?
This person was an escaped slave, who returned and helped other slaves escape in the Underground Railroad. She established safehouses for other fugitive slaves.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This region has high volcanic peaks and glaciers. It cuts the state in half, and has famous mountains including Mt. Baker, Mt. Saint Helens, and Mt. Ranier.
What is the Cascade Mountains?