US: The Early Years
This was the original version of the US government that had a weak central government and the states that were not unified.
What were The Articles of Confederation?
The three branches of government are set up so one doesn't take over the other. We refer to this plan as this.
What are separation of powers?
The belief that Americans were chosen or given the right to expand across the continent of North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The movement that focused on ending slavery in the United States.
What is Abolition? (The Abolitionist Movement)
This happened at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia and when the Generals Lee and Grant met and it signified something.
What is the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union? (or the end of the US Civil War)
A system of government with both a national government and smaller separate governments (such as states) is known as this.
What is federalism?
The popular votes do not determine who becomes president. Instead this body, with a system of votes, lets us know who wins the presidential election.
What is the Electoral College? (what are electoral votes)
This Compromise was made to keep the balance of free states and slave states even, having two new states to join together around 1820.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The movement that fought for the rights of women to vote, and included Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
What is the Suffrage movement?
Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court decision in 1896 that allowed this to occur in the South for at least 60 years.
What is segregation? (the allowance of Jim Crow laws)
This group of writings, whose title included the name of an older political party, helped encourage the states to accept the new Constitution as law of the land.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The First Amendment gives citizens some super important rights including these. (name at least 3)
What is Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition?
The Monroe Doctrine was a warning issued by President Monroe and his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to these people.
Who were the European nations? (to stay out of the Western Hemisphere - or the US's area of the world)
Two Harriets who did their part to go against slavery, one by action and one by writing.
Who are Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
These 3 amendments following the Civil War, were created in hopes of making a fairer society for all.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments? (13th - ended slavery, 14th - defined citizenship, 15th - gave all men right to vote)
This president,who favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution, actually used a loose interpretation when making a large purchase from France and Napoleon.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
When property ownership was no longer required to vote for president, this man -- seen as a symbol of the common man -- was elected in 1828.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for this kind of local voting to decide about allowing slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This person, born into slavery, had his case brought all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled against him and said he wasn't a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
Yellow Journalism and remembering the name of this state, would bring the US to war with Spain following an event near Cuba.
What is Maine? (remember the Maine, the USS Maine)
Federalists loved the proposed Constitution while the Antifederalists believed it lacked these written guarantees for the people.
What are the Bill of Rights? (the first 10 Amendments)
This political party, one of the younger ones, wanted to stop the spread of slavery into new states as they entered the union of the US.
What is the Republican Party?
Frederick Douglass believed in nonviolent protest against slavery, including publishing his North Star anti-slavery newspaper. This slave, unlike Douglass, created an uprising in which some slave owners were killed.
Who is Ned Turner?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 focused on international trade and looked to limit the creation and powers of this.
What are monopolies? (or trusts or cartels to control trade by companies)
These two economic giants helped 'fuel' and 'shape' the United States and its industry.
Who are Andrew Carnegie (steel) and John D. Rockefeller (oil/oil refinery)?