Philosophy
According to Enlightenment thinkers, the fundamental purpose of a government was to protect these rights from being infringed upon.
What is natural rights?
This branch of the federal government enforces the law?
What is the executive branch?
The state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality.
Think Washington's Farewell Address.
What is neutrality?
Following the French and Indian War, Britain was in debt. To raise revenue, they began issuing these against the colonies?
What are taxes?
This turning point battle of the Revolutionary War led to foreign assistance, mainly from France and Spain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
John Locke's influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States is most obvious in which
document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Antifederalist objections to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution led to the creation of this attachment, guaranteeing individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Alien and Sedition Acts violated this amendment to the Constitution?
What is the 1st amendment?
This attack by the Ottawa tribe throughout the Great Lakes Region forced the British to send more troops to the colonies and establish this in 1763?
What are Pontiac's Rebellion and the Proclamation Line?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
What is the 2nd amendment?
Benjamin Franklin's " Join, or Die" slogan from this failed meeting, looked to unify the colonies prior to another conflict between Britain and France.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
The executive branch vetoing a piece of legislation is an example of this principle of the U.S. Constitution.
What is checks and balances?
This armed resistance to excise taxes by the citizens of western Pennsylvania in 1794 proved the federal government to have sufficient power granted by the newly ratified Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
A term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.
What is salutary neglect?
A revolt over the issue of the foreclosure of farms due to economic issues in the state and nationwide. This rebellion was important because it contributed to the writing of the new Constitution, by causing elites to fear similar uprisings in the future.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This Supreme Court power came about as a result of the Marbury v. Madison case and Chief Justice John C. Marshall's interpretation of the Judiciary Act of 1789 being unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
One major effect of the American Revolution was the establishment of an autonomous government. This first governing document left most of the power in the hands of individual states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
George Washington warned of factions dividing the nation in his now famous Farewell Address? A faction is a group of like minded individuals with similar beliefs in how to govern over society. The term we use for factions today is...
What is a political party?
This period of science and reason was highly influential on the Founding Fathers. The ideas of men like John Locke and French philosopher Montesquieu were used in early documents, like the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What is the 9th amendment?
Separation of powers and this constitutional principle limit the power of the federal government. Hint: The states need some power too.
What is federalism?
The preamble to the U.S. Constitution introduces which of the basic principles of government in the United States.
We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is popular sovereignty?
"It is the opinion of the great writers, that a very extensive country cannot be governed on democratic principles, on any other plan than a confederation of several small republics, possessing all the powers of government, but united in the management of their foreign and general concerns."
What early detractors of the Constitution wrote this quote?
Hint: It is a group.
What is the Antifederalists?
This act was created in response to the Stamp Act Congress and the threat from Ben Franklin to the British that the colonies were boycotting all British goods.
The major goal of this act was to tax all goods the British believed the colonists had to rely on them for.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This man was the first president in U.S. history to lose a re-election bid, peacefully handing over the office to the opposing political party in 1800.
What is John Adams?