Way Back in the Day
This region was home to plantation-style farming from the beginning of colonial settlement in the 1600s
What is The South / Southeast?
There are different ways to interpret the Constitution when creating laws. One is to only allow the government to do exactly what the Constitution says it can, called a strict interpretation. This interpretation allows the government to expand its powers beyond what the document says.
What is a loose interpretation?
One example of a loose interpretation of the Constitution was the creation of an income tax.
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This party formed in 1854 as the main opponent to the expansion of slavery. Within 6 years, it would have one of its members elected as President of the United States.
What is the Republican Party?
Many Schmoes who moved west during the 19th century believed in this idea: that God wanted settlers to move all the way to the Pacific Coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The majority of early British colonial settlement was east of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The Constitution gave some powers to the states and others to the federal government, otherwise known as this system.
What is federalism?
This system of preventing any one branch of government from getting too much power includes the Presidential veto, the Congressional override and the Supreme Court's ability to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What are checks and balances?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were both made with the hopes of preserving this balance.
What is the balance between free and slave states?
Thanks to the easing of voting requirements during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Joe Schmoe no longer had to own this to be able to vote.
What is land?
Because of its many harbors and centrality within the American colonies, this region became the main hub of international trade during the colonial era.
What is the Mid-Atlantic?
These two groups were in major disagreement over the passage of the Constitution.
Who are the federalists and the antifederalists?
The federalists wanted to expand the power of the central gov using the constitution while the antifederalists were worried that this would make the United States into a monarchy, so they wanted the Bill of Rights to protect individual rights.
In this major Supreme Court decision, the court decided that legal segregation was constitutional as long as facilities remained equal in nature.
What is Plessy v Ferguson (1896)?
One byproduct of President Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was the recruitment of African Americans into this.
What is the Union Army?
If he was a Black former slave, Joe Schmoe might have expected 40 acres and a mule after the war. However, this never came, and many people like him ended up working as these on the same plantations they were once enslaved.
What are sharecroppers or tenant farmers?
Mercantilism was the unfair economic system where the American colonies exported raw materials to this country, only to have to purchase the finished products back at a higher price.
What is Great Britain? (England or the United Kingdom).
This phrase describes the democratic theme that runs through both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, declaring the governments can only rule with the approval of the citizens within that country.
What is the Consent of the Governed?
In Gibbons v Ogden the Supreme Court decided that only the federal government can pass laws that affect business that goes across state boundaries, otherwise known as this.
What is interstate commerce?
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were all passed after the end of the Civil War, during this period of American history.
What is the Reconstruction period?
If he was an immigrant in the late 1800s, Joe Schmoe might have protested his horrible working conditions by doing this, an action many labor unions took during that time period where they refused to continue working.
What is going on strike?
Companies did not like the idea of strikes and often sent in strikebreakers to replace the workers or sent armed guards to try to shut down the strike. Many strikes during the late 1800s turned deadly.
Patrick Henry's famous "No taxation without representation" was uttered in response to the passage of this act by the British Parliament.
What is the Stamp Act?
Practices that are not written into the Constitution but have become commonplace in American politics are sometimes referred to as this kind of constitution.
What is the "unwritten" Constitution?
The 14th Amendment gave African Americans automatic citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens, otherwise known as this kind of citizenship. This would have a long impact on immigration policy in the United States.
What is birthright citizenship?
The Compromise of this year marks the official end of the Reconstruction period.
What is 1877?
In order for Republican Rutherford B Hayes to take office, the Republican party needed to agree to withdraw troops from the Southern states and to allow those states to govern themselves.