Territory
The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Under this first form of government, America had no Supreme Court, or even an executive branch.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What did the emancipation proclamation do?
Free the slaves in the south (confederacy)
This law required that a stamp be placed on all paper goods in the colonies, beginning the calls for taxation without representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
What was the push to have no slavery in new northern territories that would become Illinois, Michigan and Ohio
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Great Compromise came out of a dispute between these two groups over this specific issue (2 part answer)
large states and small states; representation
This Supreme Court Ruling created the concept of Judicial Review, the judiciary has the power to eliminate laws it deems unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison
Before Africans were used as slaves, this group was enslaved by colonists, but they kept dying primarily of this?
Native Americans; smallpox
The idea that states should be able to vote on the legalization of slavery in their territory is considered... (as an example)
What is Popular Sovereignty?
How will the Mexican cession lead to growing tensions between the North & the South?
led to tensions about the expansion of slavery in new territories
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case? (3 answers)
1. Dred Scott couldn't sue in court because he wasn't a citizen
2. The gov can't deprive people of their "property"
3. The decision allowed slavery in the territories
Which act gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is The French and Indian War?
What territories / states were added after the Mexican American War? (4 main)
What is Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision regarding California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
In this 1824 case, the Supreme Court ruled that only Congress, not individual states, could regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants.
Sharecropping
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
What is The Enlightenment?
In 1845, the U.S. annexed this former independent republic, leading to tensions with Mexico.
What is Texas?
The failure of compromise over slavery led to this, the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history.
What is the Civil War?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
This the name of the act that required Americans to return escaped slaves in 1793.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shay's Rebellion?