Unit 1
Which Purpose of gov't is this?
The government places taxes and uses the money to improve people’s quality of life by giving them access to resources & services.
Provide public Services
Meeting in Philadelphia of 12/13 states to revise the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Purchased in 1803 from France, this doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana territory
Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
To break away from a country
Secede
Power is held by one or a few people who make all decisions such as a king or dictator.
Authoritarian / Dictatorship
First ten amendments to the Constitution that protect individual rights
Bill of Rights
Method of production that uses machines run by workers to produce goods
Factory system
Time period from 1866-1877 after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Terrorist organization devoted to white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
A government where people are involved in decision making
Democratic
The following represents________________
The national government could not tax the states or citizens
The national government could not raise an army. It could only request states to send troops.
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Law to move Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act
Government agency tasked with overseeing Reconstruction and helping African Americans transition to freedom
Freedmen's Bureau
War for Independence
Revolutionary War
A colonial tax placed on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards
Stamp Act
Supreme court case that established the the national government is above state government (National Supremacy)
McCuloch v Maryland
Allowed Missouri to join the US as a slave state in exchange for Maine as a free state, but banned slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of 36,30 latitude line
Missouri Compromise
Supreme Court judgment that only Congress could suspend habeas corpus. Lincoln ignored this ruling
Ex Parte v Merryman
1st women' rights convention organized to address social, political, economic rights of women in 1848
Seneca Falls
Prohibited the colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Court case that established power of the Courts to determine whether a law or government action follows the Constitution (Judicial Review)
Marbury v Madison
Allowed California to enter union as free state in exchange for fugitive slave act
Compromise of 1850
Guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
General Lee surrendered his Confederate army to general Grant here in April 9th, 1865
Appomattox VA