Manifest Destiny
What does 'destiny' mean?
fate, a predetermined course of events
True or False: Louisiana was involved in the Missouri Compromise?
True: For the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase, all new states below a certain line would allow enslavement.
Who organized an attack/raid on Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
True or false: Police have to have a good, valid reason to search your things.
True
What does 'manifest' mean?
Obvious, evident
Why did the nation have to make a Missouri Compromise before admitting Missouri into the nation?
There was an equal number of free states and states that allowed enslavement.
What is POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY?
The state has the right to choose whether or not they're a free state or they allow enslavement.
Can you be charged for the same crime twice if new evidence comes out incriminating you?
NO--5th amendment
Which branch of government makes laws?
Legislative
What does Manifest Destiny mean?
It was the belief that it was our "god given" duty to expand US territory and spread our culture because we were superior.
Who suggested the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
What was the term for the civil war that broke out in Kansas over the issue of enslavement?
Bleeding Kansas
True or False: All of your basic rights are listed in the Constitution
False
True or false: The president is the Commander in Chief of the US Military
True
Who were some people who did not benefit from America's idea of Manifest Destiny?
Native Americans
According to the Missouri Compromise, would Missouri enter the nation as a state that ALLOWED ENSLAVEMENT or a state that DID NOT ALLOW ENSLAVEMENT?
Allowed enslavement
True or false: The issue divided the country so intensely that a violent fight broke out in the Senate.
True. Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.
Which state did not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and why didn't they send one?
Rhode Island didn't send a delegate because they were unsure of what would happen at the convention.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Each enslaved person would count as 3/5 of a person for reasons of taxation and representation.
What does this quotation mean?
Oh to die, advancing on!
Are there some of us to drop and die?
And upon the march we...die...soon and sure the gap is fill'd.--Walt Whitman
That though some of the pioneers would surely die, they needed to keep going and expanding.
What was the status of Maine after the Missouri Compromise?
Did not allow enslavement
Thousands of people who moved in gangs with guns into Texas to vote on the slavery issue.
How many branches of government do we have? Name each of them.
Three
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
How many representatives does each state get in the Senate?
2