American Govt
How many branches of government are there?
Three
What was the slogan of the American Revolution?
No Taxation Without Representation
One of the major causes of the Civil War was the debate over the expansion of slavery into new territories. What direction was the country expanding at this time?
West
This Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" ruling in public schools and ordered all public schools to be desegregated.
Brown v. Board of Education
American involvement in Vietnam occurred in the early years of the Cold War. What ideology did we fear would spread through Asia and eventually the world?
Communism
Which branch of the government has the power to declare war?
Legislative/Congress
Thomas Jefferson was the author of this famous document that came out of the debates in the 2nd Continental Congress?
Declaration of Independence
This Act by Congress in 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1854 and allowed slavery to be determined by a popular vote of the people?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This African-American teenager was brutally murdered in Mississippi because of false allegations that he flirted with a white woman. His killers were found not guilty by a corrupt and racist jury.
Emmett Till
This group of guerilla warfare fighters ambushed US troops in the jungles of South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
Which branch of the government has the authority to strike down a law that is interpreted to be unconstitutional?
Judicial/Supreme Court
During the Revolution, various turning points in the war such as the Crossing of the Delaware and The Battle of Saratoga led this country to support the American War for Independence?
France
This radical abolitionist led a failed slave revolt in Harpers Ferry VA.
John Brown
This group of black and white civil rights protesters bordered busses and drove throughout the south to protest the segregation of interstate travel.
The Freedom Riders
This turning point in the war was a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese on the South Vietnam capital of Saigon, which caused the American media to conclude the war was a waste of time and eventually led to Lyndon Johnson refusing to run for reelection?
The Tet Offensive
Explain the Amendment process under Article 5?
2/3s of the states or both houses of congress propose an amendment and 3/4s of the states ratify it.
After the Revolution, Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson all had to deal with war between England and France. Explain the similarities in how all three dealt with this problem?
All three of them decided to remain neutral in the war between England and France.
This Union general led a campaign of "Total War" where he marched through the South destroying anything the Confederates could use to aid their war effort.
William T Sherman
This act of congress in 1964 officially outlawed segregation in public facilities and places. It was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Daniel Ellsberg released these top secret documents from that showed the government had been lying about the reasons we went to war in Vietnam and President Nixon's overreaction to stopping him led to his resignation.
The Pentagon Papers
Explain the Supremacy Clause under Article 6?
Federal law is supreme to state law when the two come into conflict
The Alien and Sedition Acts as well as the Embargo Act of 1807 each caused political problems for Adams and Jefferson. Explain each of these acts and explain why they were negative actions.
The Alien and Sedition Acts trampled on the 1st amendment by restricting free speech and the Embargo Act caused severe economic problems by limiting foreign trade.
The period immediately after the Civil War, where three amendments were passed giving African-Americans freedom and new rights that were met with resistance by some White southerners who passed Jim Crow Laws is known as?
Reconstruction
This type of segregation is when a group of people choose to segregate themselves from another group, but it is not government mandated segregation (also known as de jure segregation)
Protests on college campuses such as Kent State often led to violent and even deadly clashes between students and police (or National Guardsman). The students were protesting Nixon's illegal invasion of this country?
Cambodia