Revolution
The unofficial British policy of lenient or lax enforcement of parliamentary laws regarding the American colonies during the 1600s and 1700s.
What is salutary neglect?
He had a plan (not a dream). Created a bank. Issued protective tariffs for budding businesses. Paid state debts from the Revolutionary War.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This man was the responsible for orchestrating the most heinous attack on American soil in September of 2001.
What is Osama bin Laden?
Established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Centered on the belief that the patriots' daughters should be raised to uphold the ideals of the new nation, in order to pass on specific values to the next generation.
What is republican motherhood?
A spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
What is Thomas Jefferson?
All persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 42nd president defeated George H.W. Bush in the election of 1992. Was impeached halfway through his second term in 1998. Kept his office, but had to hand over the White House to Republican George W. Bush after his victory against his VP Al Gore in 2000.
What is William Jefferson Clinton?
Held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This year marked ground zero for the revolution. The French and Indian War ended, Pontiac rebelled, and a line was drawn to stop further settlement west.
What is 1763?
English-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, “Common Sense” was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
What is Thomas Paine?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
THIS BASKETBALL LEGEND CAPPED OFF HIS SECOND THREE PEAT WITH A BUZZER BEATER OVER BRYON RUSSELL IN GAME SIX OF THE 1998 NBA FINALS. OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED HIM AS THE GOAT OF ALL GOATS.
Ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Drafted in secret by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, these documents condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
When her husband prepared to gather with his colleagues to write a statement of principles that would soon be adopted by the Continental Congress as the Declaration of Independence, she asked him to “remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.”
What is Abigail Adams?
It being desirable, for the peace, concord, and harmony of the Union of these States, to settle and adjust amicably all existing questions of controversy between them arising out of the institution of slavery upon a fair, equitable and just basis: therefore...
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Two terms used for the liberalization of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
What are perestroika and glasnost?
Established two important principles in constitutional law: (1) the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government, and (2) state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Based on the idea that a nation's wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and reducing imports. It's characterized by the belief that global wealth was static and that a nation's economic health relied heavily on its supply of capital.
What is mercantilism?
Known as “the Great Compromiser”, represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and in the House of Representatives. American System, Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850.
What is Henry Clay?
A farm free to any man who wanted to put a plow into unbroken sod.
What is the Homestead Act?
Also known as the Protect America Act, this controversial piece of legislation from 2001 raised questions over privacy and limitations of freedom for security reasons.
What is the Patriot Act?
Held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?