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The cabinet system, maintaining neutrality and a two term limit are examples of _____ set by ________.
What are the precedents set by George Washington?
She helped enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This document preceded the Constitution and was the U.S. first form of government. It had many weaknesses including a lack of federal power, inability to collect taxes, difficulty raising an army, and lack of flexibility.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Plessy v. Ferguson established the doctrine of _______, legalizing racial segregation in public facilities.
What is “separate but equal”?
This belief that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand across the continent which helped justify westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention by Eli Whitney made cotton production more profitable and increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This agreement during the Constitutional Convention determined how enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The number of amendments the US Constitution has.
What is 27?
These two groups argued whether the United States should have a a focus on a stronger federal government or stronger State government.
Who are Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
When sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy, it helped to lead to the War of 1812
What was impressment?
This president was known for his "big stick" policy.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
This is a policy which stated that the western hemisphere is "off limits" to the European countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This is the result of Marbury v Madison where the Supreme Court gained equal power and the right to determine if a law fit the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 (which nearly doubled the size of the United States), these explorers were sent to survey the land.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This law made it legal for Southerner slave owners to go into the North to legally retrieve their slaves.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This is significant topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates for the 1860 Presidential election.
What is their stance on slavery?
This amendment granted Women's Sufferage.
What is the 19th amendment?
Two wars that the US fought against Great Britain
What are the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War?
Proposed by Alexander Hamilton, this institution was created in 1791 to stabilize the U.S. economy and manage government funds.
What is the First Bank of the United States?
He led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and later became President during Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This policy promised U.S. support for countries resisting communism during the Cold War, starting with Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The 1944 Supreme Court case Korematsu v United States upheld _______ citing national security concerns.
What is Japanese Internment.
This 1854 act allowed settlers in new territories to decide on slavery for themselves and effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery north of the 36°30′ line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house legislature, combining elements of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
The 22nd Amendment establishes _______ in direct response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth election.
What is a two term limit limits for the presidency?
The SPAM technique is used to analyze political cartoons. SPAM stands for ______________.
What is Scene, People, Action, Meaning?
The longest section of the Declaration of Independence that includes abuses that violated the colonists' rights.
What is the List of Grievances?
This president was known for the spoils system, the Indian Removal Act, and the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Passed under Adams' administration, these controversial acts targeted immigrants and restricted speech critical of the government, sparking debate about civil liberties.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
his 1954 case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by ruling that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In the 1800s, the U.S. government forced Native Americans to live on these areas of land, often far from their ancestral homes.
What are reservations?
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
In the 1824 election, Andrew Jackson lost the presidency despite winning the most popular and electoral votes, leading to accusations of this shady deal between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
The Elastic Clause, Amendments, and Judicial Review are all examples of this constitutional principal ________.
What is flexibility.
Passed shortly after the 9/11 attacks, this 2001 law expanded government surveillance powers in the name of national security.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
The Quartering Act
The Declaration of Independence was heavily influenced by this philosopher who believed in Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
This 1960s policy by President Johnson expanded the role of the federal government to fight poverty.
What is the Great Society?
In this 1819 case, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not tax federal institutions and reinforced the federal government’s implied powers.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Critics mocked this 1867 U.S. purchase from Russia, calling it “Seward’s Folly.”
What is the purchase of Alaska?
This idea said that people in a territory should vote to decide whether to allow slavery, and it led to violence in “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the "deal breaking" clause that Anti-federalist required the Constitution to include before they agreed to ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment states: the people have rights other than those mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the 9th amendment?
This Cold War conflict from 1950 to 1953 ended in a stalemate and an armistice, but not a formal peace treaty.
What is the Korean War?
After the Revolutionary War, many veterans were not getting their paychecks for their service. Many veterans protested, overthrowing a Massachusetts court house and freeing those imprisoned for their debts.
What is Shays' Rebellion
This founder of the Tuskegee Institute emphasized vocational training and a gradual approach to racial equality in his "Atlanta Compromise" speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Passed in 1890, this law was the first federal attempt to prevent monopolies and promote fair competition in business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
In this 1919 case, the Supreme Court ruled that free speech could be limited during wartime if it created a “clear and present danger.”
What is Schenck v. United States?
This disagreement over Texas' border led to war which U.S. acquired present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This informal agreement resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election and allowed the Republican candidate to gain the electoral vote.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These powers belong to both the state and federal government.
What are concurrent powers?
This 1863 policy declared that all persons held as slaves in Confederate states were free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?