Constitutional Powers
The President’s power to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Veto
When one company or group has total control over a specific trade or product.
Monopoly
The 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized reason over tradition.
Enlightenment
A formal, written agreement between two or more sovereign nations.
Treaty
This group, led by Metacom, fought against English expansion in New England.
Wampanoag/King Philip’s War
The formal process of voting to approve the Constitution or an amendment.
Ratification
To move goods in or out of a country illegally to avoid paying taxes.
Smuggling
French settlers who were expelled from Canada and eventually moved to Louisiana.
Acadians
This 1786 uprising of farmers showed that the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
Shays' Rebellion
This Enlightenment thinker argued that all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
These are powers shared by both the federal and state governments, like taxing.
Concurrent Powers
This term describes the activity of buying and selling on a large scale.
Commerce
The British policy of "ignoring" colonial trade laws as long as the colonies stayed profitable.
Salutary Neglect
The secret 1762 agreement that transferred Louisiana from France to Spain.
Treaty of Fontainebleau
This set of laws regulated the lives of enslaved people and defined their few rights in French Louisiana
Code Noir
Powers specifically listed in the Constitution, such as the power to declare war.
Enumerated Powers
A valuable person, thing, or quality that an entity owns.
Asset
The legal act of a slaveholder freeing an enslaved person.
Manumission
To formally give up territory or power, often at the end of a war.
Ceded
This company, led by John Law, was created to help settle and provide "investments" for Louisiana.
Mississippi Company
These powers are not given to the feds, so they are kept by the states.
Reversed
Putting money into a business or project with the hope of making a profit.
Investment
A sudden arrival of a large number of people, like settlers moving into a new territory.
Influx
This group refused to support the Constitution until a Bill of Rights was added.
Anti-Federalists
The Constitution fixed a major weakness of the Articles by giving Congress this specific power to raise money.
Power to Tax