Much Ado About States
Straight Up Vocab, Yo
Early American Government
Constitutional Mumbo Jumbo
Potpourri
100
Territory is granted permission to prepare a Constitution
What is the Enabling Act
100
A political community in a precise territory
What is a STATE
100
Section of the Declaration of Independence that describes violations of political, civil, and economic liberties
What is the "middle section"
100
The number of Amendments in the U.S. Constitution
What is 27
100
A framework of government
What is a Constitution
200
Congressional act admitting a territory to the union as a state
What is the Act of Admission
200
State maintains social order, provides public service, and enforces decisions
What is GOVERNMENT
200
The compromise that enabled writers of the Constitution to resolve disputes over whether slaves would be counted among each state's population
What is the 3/5 Compromise
200
The group that supported ratification of the Constitution WITHOUT a Bill of Rights
Who are the Federalists
200
Powers that are given to the federal government
What are Delegated Powers
300
State has supreme and absolute authority within its boundaries
What is Sovereignty
300
Study of how limited resources are used to fill people's unlimited needs.
What is ECONOMICS
300
The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise was important to the South because it depended on this:
What is the textile industry in England
300
This Amendment states that Senators are to be chosen by the vote of the people, not the State Legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment
300
Term created by Karl Marx referring to the industrial working class
What is Proletariat
400
Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives after each census
What is Reapportionment
400
A country with a head of state elected to run a the federal government
What is a REPUBLIC
400
Early American concepts of government were based on these two ideas:
What is limited government and representative government
400
This Amendment allows Congress to give itself a pay raise
What is the 25th Amendment
400
Middle class owners of industrial capital
What is Bourgeoisie
500
Legal process of returning a fugitive in one state to another state
What is Extradition
500
Economic system that gives freedom of choice and incentives
What is CAPITALISM
500
The beginning of the Declaration of Independence is a statement of what?
What are basic human rights
500
The number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435
500
Tactic used to delay action of a bill by speaking without yielding the floor
What is a filibuster
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