Checks and Balances
How can the executive branch check the legislative branch?
The President in the executive branch can veto those laws with a Presidential Veto.
What was Lincoln’s initial goal for the Civil War?
To preserve the Union
What were the main goals of the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)?
Increase and Protect the Rights of African Americans/ Grant legal rights to African Americans
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ended Slavery
What is impeachment?
A process by which congress can charge a federal official with a wrongdoing and begin to remove them from office. House of Representatives does the impeachment.
How can the judicial branch check the executive branch?
Judicial branch can declare executive orders unconstitutional
Which states was Lincoln concerned with losing support from if he abolished slavery in every state?
Border States
What is John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown, an abolitionist, attacked an arsenal hoping to insight a slave revolt and when this failed, he was executed for treason
What is the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote
How did Dred Scott, John Brown’s Raid, and Bleeding Kansas influence the United States in the antebellum era?
These events increased sectional tension over slavery and made compromise more difficult—they contributed to the start of the Civil war
How can the legislative branch check the executive branch?
The legislative branch can override that veto with enough votes.
The legislative branch has the power to approve Presidential nominations, control the budget, and can impeach the President and remove him or her from office.
The Emancipation Proclamation added what goal to the goals of the Civil War?
Abolishing Slavery
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Supreme Court ruling declaring that African Americans were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in court.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Gave Black Americans citizenship ALSO ensured that ‘traitors’ to the US cannot run for office (aka confederate generals) and ensures States cannot take away citizens rights (everyone has due process etc..)
What is a veto?
The way the president can check the legislative branch by not signing the law into power. President blocks a law.
How can the legislative branch check the judicial branch?
the Senate in the legislative branch confirms the President’s nominations for judicial positions, and Congress can impeach any of those judges and remove them from office.
Which states did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to?
Southern States/Confederate States Only
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A series of violent confrontations in Kansas between free soilers (abolitionists) and pro-slaver border ruffians over whether slavery should expand into Kansas territory
How did each Amendment impact African-Americans?
Each Amendment was intended to give African Americans protection under the law and increase their rights, however, each amendment was insufficient/ineffective in doing so.
What is a veto override?
Legislative branch overrides a veto by passing the law with a two thirds vote in both the House and the Senate.
How can the judicial branch check the legislative branch?
The legislative branch makes laws, but the judicial branch can declare those laws unconstitutional
Who killed President Lincoln and who was his successor?
He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, and died the following day. His successor was Andrew Johnson.
What is sectionalism?
Sectionalism is the overemphasized political, economic, and social loyalty to a specific region of a country rather than the country as a whole. It is associated with the belief that different regions of a country have unique characteristics and values. An example= North are against slavery and South is pro slavery
How did the 14th Amendment overturn Dred Scott?
Granted birthright citizenship, overturned the Dred Scott decision, and prohibited states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process or denying them equal protection under the law.
What is judicial review?
The courts can declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)