Important Policies or Documents
Was written in 1787
What is: the Constitution
A citizen does not have to quarter a soldier (a grievance from the Declaration of Independence)
What is: What is the 3rd Amendment
The main idea that caused the split in the political parties.
What is: the amount of power the government should or should not have
What is Federalism
The beginning purpose of the Constitutional Convention
What is: To fix the Articles of the Confederation
The court case that explained that Congress does in fact have the right to create a national bank AND that the states CANNOT tax the federal government.
What is: McCulloch v. Maryland
A tax on IMPORTED or foreign items that excited Norther US merchants
What is: tariff or protective tariff
The first form of government tried by the new United States that had only one branch and was deemed as being too weak.
What is: The Articles of Confederation
A God-given right given to any man when they are born.
What is: unalienable right
This political party was started by Alexander Hamilton, who believed in a strong federal government, a national bank, and that the wealthy and educated should be selected to run the government.
What is: The Federalist Party
One of the 7 Principles that means the people hold the power of the government.
What is: Popular Sovereignty
A compromise that worked out the argument between the number of votes the large and small states receive
What is: The Great Compromise
The court case that established judicial review.
What is: Marbury v. Madison
The reason Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton to create his plan
What is: to STABILIZE the USA's economy
This document, written to King George III listed grievances from the American colonists and would later be addressed in their new government.
What is: The Declaration of Independence
The 1st Amendment (must name 4 out of the 5)
What is: freedom of speech, religion, press, and the right to petition and assemble
This party began during G.Washington's term and was led by Thomas Jefferson who believed the federal or national government should not have more power than the states.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party
Separation of Powers is defined with these three branches.
What is: North and South
The courts in the judicial branch will weigh every decision using this as the SUPREME LAW of the land.
What is: The Constitution
Democratic-Republicans were agains this because they thought it was unconstitutional.
What is: the National Bank
Washington's Farewell Address warned against these two things. One domestic and one foreign.
What is: political parties and no permanent foreign alliances.
No cruel and unusual punishment
What is: the 8th Amendment
Favored the Northern manufacturing states
What is the Federalist Party
What is: Checks and Balances
What is: The Federalist Papers.
The ability for the judicial branch to have the power to deem the executive and legislative branches' decisions unconstitutional.
What is: Judicial Review
The group that opposed to Hamilton's plan
What is: the Southern states or the Democratic-Republican Party
An excerpt from a document: "The American continents, by the free and independent consition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power.
What is: The Monroe Doctrine
Grievance listed in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence: He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
What is: the 3rd Amendment, or No Quartering of Soldiers in times of peace or war
Favored the Southern Agrarian states.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party
The 7 Principles in the order of FLIPRCS. Must name them all.
What is: Federalism, Limited Government, Individual Rights, Popular Sovereignty, Republicanism, Checks and Balances, and Separation of Powers
The final result of meeting for 5 months in Philidelphia at the Constitutional Convention
What is: The Constitution or the Ratification of the Constitution
Selected as the Chief Justice in 1801 during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Who is: John Marshall
This was the result of an excise tax imposed by Alexander Hamilton's Plan.
What is: Whiskey Rebellion