Civics
Name the 3 branches of government and what they are responsible for.
Executive > executing the law
Legislative > making the law
Judicial > interprets the law
Define Manifest Destiny
The belief that Americans had the God given right to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
Define imperialism.
Control over political, military, economical, and cultural life in a less advanced country
Most immigrants lived in these crowded dirty apartment buildings.
What are tenements
This is why more Americans began buying more consumer goods
What is disposable income
These are considered to be the first 2 political parties. Name them and identify their beliefs.
Federalists: wanted a strong central government and did not want Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists: wanted stronger state governments and wanted a Bill of Rights
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the rebelling states on January 1, 1863
This piece of legislation determined that America would intervene in European affairs in Latin America to protect US interests
The Monroe Doctrine
This act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
The stock market crashed on this day
What is "Black Tuesday"
What are the 7 constitutional principles? Bonus if you can define them all. (+100)
Popular sovereignty: gov in which people rule
Republicanism: people exercise their power through voting
Limited gov: restricts the power of gov
Federalism: power is divided between central and smaller govs
Separation of powers: 3 branches share the gov’s power
Checks and balances: each branch checks on the other branches to make sure they follow the Constitution
Individual rights: personal liberties and privileges
Describe the climate between the North and South leading up to the Civil War.
Overall, the climate was politically tense. Although there were some means to compromise, a majority of the events leading to the Civil War were conflicts typically about slavery
These 3 compounded events made America join WWI.
1. Sinking of the Lusitania
2. Zimmerman Telegram
3. German unrestricted Warfare
What did anti-suffragists believe? Why did they believe that?
Believed that women should not vote.
Women were too physically frail
Women would become masculine
Women were too irrational and emotional
Women were not able to understand the complexities of politics
This president believed that help for the people during the Great Depression should come from state governments
Who is President Hoover
Describe the Constitutional Convention of 1787. What was the final outcome? Furthermore, what were the main debates that took place to get to the final outcome? (You must correctly identify 2 but there are 4 we learned about in total)
The Constitutional Convention was to discuss and remedy the problems of the AoC. Ultimately, the convention evolved into drafting a new government from scratch, the Constitution.
The 4 main debates were: the Bill of Rights, representation, the branches of government, and slavery
Why were the Native Americans in the Great Plains nomadic?
Native Americans were nomadic due to the changing locations of their food resources and moving due to the change in seasons
Explain the impact Commodore Perry had on Japan.
Japan had been isolationist up until this point, but began to industrialize once Perry opened the country
Define vertical integration. Provide an example of a person who practiced it.
Acquired companies that supplied all section of the business. Rockefeller
The dropping of the bomb was announced through this ultimatum
What is the Potsdam Declaration
What is one SCOTUS case we studied this year. Describe the case and the lasting impact.
Tinker v Des Moines, Roe v Wade, Miranda v Arizona, Brown v Board, Scott v Sandford
How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact Westward Expansion?
Brought civilization in mass volumes to the West, built towns, various careers, wars with the Native Americans
The lasting impact Schenck v US had on American society
It established the “clear and present danger” clause, which can allow the government to restrict free speech during wartime
Booker T Washington asserted the following idea
That African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic and vocational goals rather than political ones
The term for a rejection of more traditional models of the moral life and a strong endorsement of new modes is
What is new morality