Political Ideologies & Important Terms
State's rights, tariffs, and slavery caused this between the North and South.
What is sectionalism?
James Madison wanted this in the Constitution to prevent tyranny again.
What are checks and balances?
House of Burgesses is one of the first examples of this.
What is self-government?
The belief that justified moving westward and expanding our country.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This case established judicial review in the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
The belief the government is created for and by the people and was used in the Kansas Nebraska Act.
What is popular sovereignty?
This compromise allowed for the House of Representatives and Senate to form (a bicameral legislature).
What is the Great Compromise?
Women's suffrage ideas started here.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
This was agreed to be the western border of the new United States after the war in 1783.
What is the Mississippi River?
This case dealt with interstate commerce in New York State.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
This war involved Great Britain, and one of the leading causes was trade.
What is the War of 1812?
This compromise was developed between the small and big states and deals with national elections and the states' representation.
What is the electoral college?
This uprising leads to exposing the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and creating the Constitution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
America received this important geographical feature after the Louisiana Purchase.
What are the Great Plains?
This ruling determined the United States cannot implement the Indian Removal Act.
What is Worchester vs. Georgia?
The three natural rights John Locke believed in.
What are life, liberty, and property?
5 enslaved people were considered 3 people for state representation under this agreement.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
This policy was established in 1823 and said the United States would stay out of European affairs, and Europe should stay out of the Western hemisphere's affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This man-made feature connected the Hudson River and the Great Lakes and allowed for better trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
This case involved the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution and said that states cannot tax the federal government.
What is McCullouch vs. Maryland?
These were the two things Washington warned the country about at his farewell address.
What is avoiding foreign interests and political parties?
This is the type of legislature the Articles of Confederation had.
What is a unicameral (or one-bodied) legislature?
In this election, Lincoln won and South Carolina seceded soon after.
What is the Election of 1860?
This state was given this nickname over the violence and debates of slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
He was the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 until 1835.
Who is John Marshall?