Category 1
to cancel
What is veto?
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
taxes on imports and exports
What are tariffs?
system that ensures no branches are stronger than the other
What is checks and balances?
first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is Bill of Rights?
A series of essays created by Federalists.
What is the Federalist Papers?
This branch creates the laws
What is the legislative Branch?
This document signed in 1215 made the king subject to law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This branch interprets the laws
What is the judicial branch?
This branch executes the laws.
What is the executive branch?
This person led a rebellion to protest extreme taxes in Massachusetts
Who is Daniel Shays?
What is Land Ordinance of 1785?
meeting held in May 1787 at Philadelphia's Independence Hall.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
trading between two or more states
What is interstate commerce?
official approval
What is ratification ?
the father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
every three out of five slaves are counted
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
official change
What is amendment?
system that divides power between the central and state governments
What is federalism?
created a two house legislature; equal votes in the Senate; representation in the House based on population
What is the Great Compromise?
vote to bring charges against an official
What is impeach?
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The idea that political authority is in the hands of the people
What is popular sovreignty?
A period of low economic activity
What is a depression?
freedom from punishment
What is a pardon?