Governmental Structure
This system of limitations the three branches hold on each other ensures that no one branch can ever gain too much power.
What are Checks and Balances?
What is Common Sense?
This institution was created by George Washington to help him more effectively split power within the executive branch to specific experts.
What is the Presidential Cabinet?
This acquisition of land was the largest in US History.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The forced migration of Indigenous Americans away from the US East Coast that led to the death of 16,000 Natives (not the law).
What is the Trail of Tears?
The power for the Executive Branch to deny a law.
What is a veto?
This time period, known for philosophers such as John Locke & Baron de Montesquieu, is often cited as the inspiration for the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
This series of laws were created by John Adams in order to impose heavy restrictions on immigrants and people who spoke out against the US government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This ideology is the name for the belief that American expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific expansion was their god-Given fate.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This document signed by delegates of the Thirteen Colonies was the final step in the United States seceding from the British Empire.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This part of the Constitution was created in order to assure Anti-federalists that the federal government would and could not abuse its power.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This economic system defined the control that the British Empire had over the Thirteen Colonies for the entire Colonial Period.
What is mercantalism?
The first rebellion that occurred following the creation of the US Constitution that was quickly put down by Washington's quick use of the military.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This geographic region was added to the US in the Louisiana Purchase, and is often cited as the best farmland in the US.
What are The Great Plains?
This war fought in the Colonial Period is often cited as the direct cause of the American Revolution, as it sparked the creation of massive British taxes on the Colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This Supreme Court Case gave the Judicial Branch the ability to judge the constitutionality of laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This line was drawn across the Appalachian Mountains in order to avoid further conflict between American colonists and indigenous Americans.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
What is an embargo?
This acquisition of this specific piece of land directly followed the Mexican American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This war was the first war in which the US invaded a foreign country (if you don't include the invasion of indigenous lands).
What is the War of 1812?
This Constitutional concept was created by Alexander Hamilton in order to argue for the constitutionality of the national bank.
What are Implied Powers?
This form of colonial self-government first founded in Virginia became the basis for the US Republic.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This conflict between the state of South Carolina and the federal government saw the President decide that states must listen to federal law under penalty of military action to enforce the law.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This geographic feature refers to the natural barrier that acted as the western border of the original Thirteen Colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This cause of a war between Great Britain and the United States deals with the British military doing this action to American merchant vessels.
What is impressment?