From Articles to Constitution
This first U.S. government gave most power to the states and created a weak national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This principle divides power between national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
As the first president, he set precedents like serving two terms and giving a Farewell Address.
Who is George Washington?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the U.S. and gave control of the Mississippi River and New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Jacksonian democracy expanded this to white men without property.
What is suffrage?
This farmers’ uprising in Massachusetts showed that the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
This principle divides government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
This rebellion over a tax on a certain drink showed the new Constitution could enforce its laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
These two led the expedition that explored the Louisiana Territory and searched for a route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
Under this system, Jackson gave government jobs to loyal supporters after winning elections.
What is the spoils system?
This 1787 meeting in Philadelphia wrote a new framework of government to replace the Articles.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This system lets each branch limit the powers of the other branches.
What are checks & balances?
In this scandal, French agents demanded a bribe from American diplomats before talks.
What is the XYZ affair?
Thomas Jefferson did this with Britain and France that hurt merchants and farmers in the US.
What is an embargo?
This 1830 law ordered many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This compromise created a two-house Congress, balancing large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
These first ten amendments were added to protect individual rights and calm Anti-Federalist fears.
What are the Bill of Rights?
These controversial laws under John Adams targeted immigrants and limited criticism of the government.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
Britain did this to American sailors that led to the war of 1812.
What is impressment?
This tragic forced march of the Cherokee to Indian Territory cost thousands of lives.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This agreement counted a portion of enslaved people for both representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This Supreme Court power, established in Marbury v. Madison, allows the Court to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is Judicial Review?
In his Farewell Address, Washington warned against this with other countries.
What are permanent alliances?
This 1823 policy warned European nations not to create new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
South Carolina believed they could do this in regard to tariffs or laws they did not agree with the Federal government.
What is nullification?