Terms
This term describes a large southern farm that primarily used enslaved labor?
What is a plantation
This right, and 5th amendment, ensures fair treatment through the normal judicial process - right to remain silent, no double jeopardy - the right to a fair trial.
What is due process?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Judicial branch?
This is when 2 different sides come to an agreement in which both sides give up something. You want Chik-Fil-A, she wants Cane's. Let's make it an Arby's night!!
What is a compromise?
Making goods on a large scale using machinery in a factory. The basis of the Northern economy.
What is manufacturing?
Agricultural products, such as tobacco or cotton, grown primarily for profits.
What are ca$h crop$?
These are rights that we are born with, they cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights (or inalienable rights) Or natural rights?
The President's power to reject a bill that was passed by Congress.
The power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
The movement that sought an immediate end to slavery, the labor force of the South's agricultural economy. Supporters include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, and William Lloyd Garrison.
What is the abolition movement?
A formal change or addition made to the U.S. Constitution
What is an amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is quaretering?
The branch of government that is responsible for making the laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
The practice of forcing people into naval service. Like what England did to American sailors before the War of 1812. (not too cool, if you ask me.)
What is impressment?
It's when a company has total control over a specific industry or service. Also, a sure way to ruin a friendship by becoming a slumlord in under an hour.
What is monopoly?
This document outlines the framework of our government.
What is the Constitution?
The people rule by voting. One of the most important, and well known, of our constitutional principles.
What is popular sovereignty?
This type of government (and Constitutional principle) allows citizens to choose officials to represent their interests and to make laws for the common good. It is not popular sovereignty.
What is representative government (or Republicanism)?
The avoidance of taking sides in conflicts between other nations, like what Washington advised us in his Farewell Address.
What is neutrality?
These factors explain why people leave a location or are drawn to a new one, like the promise of a new job or the inability to make money where you currently live.
What are push/pull factors?
This describes a legislative body that consists of two separate houses. (Or two ways to take a picture...)
It's not bi-cycle, it's bi.....
What is bicameral
African-Americans were finally guaranteed equal protection and due process under the law with the passage of this citizenship based amendment during Reconstruction.
What is the 14th amendment?
The branch of government that is responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws.
What is the Executive branch?
Refusal to buy or use goods as a form of protest. Colonists did this to English tea. African-Americans did this with the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama in response to Rosa Parks' arrest.
What is boycott?
It's a tax on imported goods. Like a cover charge for stuff coming into the country, but we have to pay it. Thanks a lot, Andrew Jackson.
What is a tariff?