Government & Founding Ideas
The power of the president to veto laws and the House of Representatives to impeach are examples of this principle.
What are Checks and Balances?
This phrase describes the belief that the United States was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
hat is Manifest Destiny?
In the early 1800s, canals helped the economy mainly by doing this.
What is transporting farm and industrial goods faster and cheaper?
The 1848 meeting that launched the women’s rights movement
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln encouraged the nation to show this in order to heal.
What is forgiveness?
This document includes the phrase “all men are created equal” and states governments derive power from the consent of the governed.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In 1803 the United States wanted New Orleans mainly for this reason.
What is to secure a port for transporting agricultural goods
The invention by Eli Whitney that increased cotton production in the South.
This document listed the grievances of women and demanded equal rights.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan aimed to achieve this goal.
What is rapid reunification of the country?
According to the Declaration of Independence, government authority comes from this idea that protects individual rights.
What is a social contract?
Andrew Jackson’s policy that forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River was called this
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Between 1800 and 1860, cotton production increased and this system also expanded.
What is slavery?
The women’s rights movement was strongly influenced by this earlier reform movement.
What is the abolition movement?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott protested this system on buses.
What is segregation?
The Monroe Doctrine was issued in 1823 mainly to do this.
What is limit European influence in the Western Hemisphere?
The forced relocation of Native Americans that followed Jackson’s policy became known as this event.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This major canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
The Declaration of Sentiments argued that women were denied this right.
What is the right to vote (suffrage)?
The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a major Civil Rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The 1830 law that authorized the relocation of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
During the Civil War, the North had an advantage over the South in this area.
What is economic and industrial strength?
The 1920 constitutional amendment that finally granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Even after the 14th and 15th Amendments, Southern states limited African American rights through these laws.
What are Jim Crow laws?