Founding Documents & Principles
This principle divides powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
The idea that citizens should vote, serve on juries, and stay informed.
What is civic responsibility?
A hands-off government policy toward business.
What is laissez-faire?
The movement to end slavery in the U.S.
What is abolition?
Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This system allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the others.
What are checks and balances?
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These organizations seek to influence government policy and elections with money and lobbying.
What are Political Action Committees (PACs)?
A company that controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
The right to vote, especially a key issue for women and African Americans.
What is suffrage?
This early foreign policy warned Europe not to colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The first constitution of the United States, later replaced due to its weaknesses.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Drawing oddly shaped voting districts to favor one party is known as this.
What is gerrymandering?
This term describes wealthy industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller who used ruthless tactics.
What is a robber baron?
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Nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws, practiced by MLK.
What is civil disobedience?
U.S. Cold War policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This clause gives Congress flexibility to make necessary laws beyond what’s listed.
What is the Elastic Clause?
This legal process removes a president or judge from office for wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
This program by FDR aimed to fight the Great Depression with government jobs and reforms.
What is the New Deal?
Southern laws that enforced racial separation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The U.S. plan to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1787 agreement created a two-house legislature, satisfying large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
This group officially elects the U.S. President, not the popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
A tax on imported goods used to protect American industry.
What is a tariff?
This 1964 law banned discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The easing of tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is détente?