Early Presidents
Washington was the ______ president of the United States.
What is first?
This 1820 agreement kept the balance between the free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The period immediately following the Civil War meant to reunite the former Confederate states back with the United States.
What is Reconstruction?
This man believed in a strong central government to keep the nation united.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What is Marbury v Madison?
This important decision by George Washington involved selecting a group of advisors to help him run the executive branch, a tradition that every president has followed since.
What is creating the Cabinet?
The main purpose of this 1854 law was to let the people in new western territories decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This term describes the growing loyalty people felt to their region - North, South, or West - rather than to the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
This man believed that the economy should be based on agriculture and farming.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This part of the government was given new power as a result of Marbury v Madison.
What is the Supreme Court?
President John Adams signed these controversial laws in 1798, which made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and punished people who criticized the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
In 1859, John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry with this goal in mind.
What is to start a slave rebellion (end slavery through armed resistance)?
This was the first state to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
He feared too much democracy and supported rule by the wealthy and educated.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Marbury v Madison was the first time the Supreme Court used this power to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
What is expanding voting rights?
John Brown's raid shocked the nation and increased tensions between the North and South, helping push the country closer to this.
What is the Civil War?
This law required citizens in free states to help capture and return people who had escaped from slavery, even if they had reached the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This major political development was a result of the opposing views of Jefferson and Hamilton on government power, the economy, and foreign alliances.
What is the formation of political parties?
This Chief Justice wrote the decision for the case and strengthened the power of the Supreme Court.
Who is John Marshall?
What lasting political tradition began when Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams in the Election of 1800?
What is the peaceful transfer of power?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision said enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)?
This was the main issue that divided the North and South during the Election of 1860 and led to rising tensions between the regions.
What is slavery (or the expansion of slavery into new territories)?
The long-term impact of the political disagreements between Jefferson and Hamilton can still be seen today in this ongoing feature of the American political system.
What is the two-party system?
The decision in Marbury v Madison established that the Constitution is the highest law and that this branch must interpret it.
What is the judicial branch?