Transportation
The place the Transcontinental Railroad was finished
Where is Promontory Summit?
Places established in Utah that were extremely dangerous to work in.
What was the mines?
The number of times Utah applied for Statehood before it was allowed to become a state.
What is 6 times?
The three branches of the US Government.
Who are the legislative, the executive, and judicial departments?
The only restriction on freedom of religion in the Utah Constitution.
What was a mail system where riders would stop at posts and trade horses?
Being able to provide for oneself and function independently from others.
What is self sufficient?
How could they vote for the President of the United States, send senators to Congress, write their own Constitution, have power over education, and pay taxes and receive government services?
The power of the judicial department
What is the power to hear and judge cases concerning constitutional rights?
A change or addition to a Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The amount of time it took for the Pony Express to deliver a letter.
What is ten days?
________ led to better efficiency in mines, streetcars, and trains.
What is electricity?
What is the unwillingness of the Mormons to participate in legal courts, the unity in government and religion, the church only supporting Mormon businesses, and polygamy?
The names of the groups in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
Who is Congress? (The House of Representatives and the Senate)
Who is the President?
Who is the Supreme Court?
The Name of the first Article of the Utah Constitution
What is the Declaration of rights?
The Starting and ending point of the Pony Express.
Where are Missouri and California?
A Hawaiian settlement in Utah where the Mormons converts settled. They named the settlement after Joseph F. Smith.
What is Iosepa?
A court case that claimed the Anti-polygamy laws were unconstitutional.
Three powers of the executive branch
1. Commander in Chief of the army and navy
2. Power to make treaties if 2/3 of the Senate approve
3. Appoint ambassadors and other public ministers
4. Appoint justices to the Supreme Court
5. Power to fill vacancies in the Senate that may happen during the recess of the Senate
6. Give Congress reports on the state of the Union
7. May convene both houses in Congress in extraordinary situations
8. Responsibility of receiving ambassadors and other public ministers
Three differences between the Utah Constitution and the US Constitution
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Three different ways the Transcontinental Railroad changed Utah.
How did it make manufacturing easier?
How did it make agriculture better?
How did it make small businesses struggle?
How did it connect Utah towns?
Two ways Brigham Young helped the Settlements to become self-sufficient.
How did he encourage the women to weave silk in their own homes?
How did he instruct Mormons to only shop at LDS stores?
How did he set up settlements all over Utah that would provide materials for Mormons?
The three anti polygamy acts, when they were passed, and what they did.
What is the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862? How did it outlaw polygamy and state that no church could own more than $50,000 worth of property?
What is the Edmunds Act of 1882? How did it punish polygamy with up to five years in prison and make so no polygamist could serve in office or on any jury?
What is the Edmunds Tucker Act of 1887? How did it take away the right to vote from all women and polygamist men? How did it confiscate all of the property of the LDS church?
Three powers of the Legislative Branch
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Three similarities between the Utah Constitution and the US Constitution
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