When you separate the _______ from the constitution, you are distorting the original intent
Declaration of Independence
Crowded buildings usually unsanitary are called
Tenements
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
the Bill or Rights
What is suffrage
the right to vote
Who made the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Which branch of government interprets the laws?
Judicial Branch
Revolutionary War
Executive
who wrote against the poor living conditions
Jacob Riis
What was the benefit of the Louisiana purchase
They doubled in size and got more recourses
Name the unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration:
Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness
Why was the cotton gin an important factor in slavery
It helped produce more cotton clothing which made the whites make more cotton fields to have more slaves
the rights to life, liberty and property
natural rights
colonists who banded together to protest the stamp act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s
Sons of Liberty
The Anti-Federalists insisted on this before signing the Constitution
Bill of Rights
Based on the U.S. Constitution, the government is run by
The people
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July, 4th. 1776
What was the Battle of Sarratoga
a major American victory in the American Revolutionary War that was a turning point in the war and helped secure the United States' independence from Britain
What document states, "All men are created equal"?
Declaration of Independence
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
1st Amendment
This branch is responsible for making laws
Legislative Branch
Which Native American tribe came from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota area?
Sioux
What was lassiez faire
the idea that the government should not intervene in people’s businesses
The term of a Supreme Court Justice
Life
Ended the American Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris
What was the Boston massacre
a fight between the colonists and British soldiers. Which killed some people
What was the reason for reconstruction
To rebuild the south
Who made the first car
Henry ford
a party that supported the common man, and was led by Thomas Jefferson....
Anti-Federalist (democratic-republicans)
What free state was created with the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
What were literacy tests
A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skill their ability to read and write
The French and Indian War was won by this country
Britain
What was manifest destiny
that they were destined to expand to the west and spread democracy and capitalism
Supreme Court justice known for strengthening the power of the government through his supreme court decisions....
John Marshall
Why did president Andrew Johnson get impeached
Because he removed Edwin Stanton from being secretary of war without approval from the senate
What were the goals of labor unions
Improve working conditions, better pay, reasonable hours
what was the KKK
a group of white ppl who bring terror and kill blacks
how was it determined wether it was a free state or a slave state
The 30o 60o line
The Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
a land act that established a process by which settled territories would become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, it also banned slavery in the expanding north
Northwest Ordinance of 1787