The act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means.
What is impressment?
100
Created the Electoral College. Refined the process whereby a President and a Vice President are elected by the Electoral College.
What is 12th Amendment?
100
A person who follows the Constitution word by word and someone who is more lax about it.
What is Strict and Loose Consructuinist?
100
Legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
200
A person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.
What is delagte?
200
Votes madeby members of the Electoral College which elects the president and vice president.
What is Electoral Votes/college?
200
Strong central government, loose constitution.
What is Federalists ideas?
200
The people vote to have a representitaive to run the country.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A system or rules that the party follows.
What is political party platform?
300
An attempt to change an established social order.
What is subversion?
300
A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office.
What is the party caucus?
300
Who won the election of 1860?
What is Lincoln.
300
The idea that states have certain laws that cannot be overuled by the Federal Government.
What is states rights?
300
People have a natural right to opinion including religious opinion became basis of bill of rights
What is Kentucky and Virgina resolutions?
400
The people run the country by voting for representitives.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
The French demanded a bribe to speak to the Americans.
What is the X, Y, Z affair
400
In 1861 that almost end prevented the secession.
What is Crittended Compromise?
400
The southern states secession.
What is the new Confederate States of America?
500
An alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution.
What is an amendment
500
Series of four laws entacted in 1798 to stregnthen national security.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
To withdraw.
What is secede.
500
Power is shared between federal government and states.