How did we ensure the federal government did not have too much power?
The U.S. Constitution explains the powers of the federal government, and gives those powers that are not written in the Constitution to the state and local levels of government.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This branch of government executes laws.
What is the executive branch?
An important port on the Chesapeake Bay that the British tried to capture.
What is the Port of Baltimore?
Most famous conductor on the Underground Rail Road.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
War fought to end slavery.
What is the Civil War?
There are three levels of governemnt in the United States.
What are federal, state, and local?
This is head of the judicial branch of the federal government.
What is the Supreme Court?
The British took complete control of this city and burned U.S. government buildings
What is Washington D.C.?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
What is the 13th Amendment?
The two sides that fought in the civil war.
What are the North and the South?
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
The sharing of power between federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
They introducea bill that has a chance to become a law.
What is the legislative branch, congress, House of Representatives, Senate.
This anthem was a result of the British attack on Baltimore and the War of 1812.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
Granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The President vetoing a bill and the legislative branch can overiding the veto is an example of these two things.
What are checks and balances?
Two chambers.
What is bicameral?
The War of 1812 is sometimes referred to as this.
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with equal protection under the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Areas of Maryland that supported slavery and the South.
What is the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland?
Article VI of the Constitution - This clause implies that the Federal Government has authority over the state governments.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This is the name of the person that leads the executive branch in the state of Maryland
Who is governor Wes Moore?
The practice of capturing American sailors and forcing them to serve on British ships.
What is impressment?
People that opposed slavery.
What are abolitionists?
The Battle of Sharpsburg was also known as this.
What is the Battle of Antietam?