7 Principles
The principle about dividing power between the 3 branches of government
What is Separation of Powers?
What is the 1st amendment?
A social contract, 1620
What is the Mayflower Compact?
To be against something
What is oppose?
The effect of the Cotton Gin?
What is the expansion of slavery?
The principle to prevent abuse of power using veto of laws, impeachment of officials, and ruling on the constitutionality of laws
What is Check and Balances?
Protects against unreasonable search and seizure
What is the 4th amendment?
Protected the rights of English citizens. 1689
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The movement to end Slavery
What is abolition?
What is the beliefs of the Federalist Party?
The principle about people having the power to vote
What is popular sovereignty?
Protects right to a speedy, public, trial by jury
What is the 6th amendment?
Limited the power of the king, 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
A tax on imports
What is a tariff?
This law provided a way to add states and govern territories
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The principle about voting for representatives
What is republicanism?
Limits excessive fines and cruel punishment
What is the 8th amendment?
First representative government in the colonies, 1619
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
This principle is reflected in the 10th amendment to the Constitution
What is Federalism?
Protect due process and the rights of the accused
What is the 5th amendment?
The first written constitution in the colonies
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The process of officially approving a document
What is ratification?
John Locke's belief on natural rights