AOC and Constitution
Document that provided a limited government for newly formed America
What is the Articles of Confederation?
First 10 Amendments to Constitution that protect individual liberty
What are the Bill of Rights?
Large area of land bought during Jefferson's term as president
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Belief that God desired the US to settle all of continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
US President during Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Location of 1787 Constitutional Convention
What is Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA?
Type of legislature established by Constitution
What is bicameral?
Biggest American victory of War of 1812
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Main issued that led to tension as America expanded west.
What is slavery?
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Purpose of Constitutional Convention
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
Leaders of executive agencies who advise the president
What is the Cabinet?
Hero who emerged from War of 1812 and later became President
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Radical abolitionist who believed violence was only way to end slavery
Who is John Brown?
"Freed" all slaves in Confederate territory
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
"Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
First 5 US Presidents in order
Who are Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe?
Established principle of judicial review giving federal courts the power to declare acts of the legislative and executive branches unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Major aspect of Compromise of 1850 that angered northerners
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Where Civil War ended
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Va?
Established by Constitution so that no branch of government has too much power.
What is separation of powers?
Government power divided between the national and state governments
What is the federal system?
Denied citizenship to all black Americans (slave or free)
What is the Dred Scott decision?
What is Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Significance of election of 1860
What is Lincoln won without any southern votes and South Carolina seceded?