American Founding Documents
How many Amendments does the US Constitution currently have?
27
Federalist would be describe as?
Supporters of a strong national government and the U.S. Constitution
What was the main purpose of the Three-Fifths Compromise at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
To determine how to count enslaved people for purposes of taxation and representation.
Suffrage?
Right to vote
Grandfather Clause?
If your grandfather voted, you got to vote.
This was intended to limit/restrict people of color from voting.
Baron De Montesquieu influenced our American Government in what two ways?
Separation of powers- power divided between branches of government.
Checks and Balances- each branch of government can limit the powers of the other branches.
Democrat-Republicans (Anti Federalist) would be best describes as?
Supporters of strong state governments and a limited federal government
What was the main provision of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
It allowed settlers in those territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery (popular sovereignty).
Elimination of Poll Taxes, What Amendment?
24th Amendment
Women gain the right to vote? Amendment?
19th Amendment
Life, Liberty, and Property
How did Jacksonian Democracy change the political landscape?
It expanded political power to more common citizens and increased voter participation.
Removed barriers such as having to own property/be wealthy in order to vote.
Compromise of 1850?
It admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
26th Amendment
set of restrictive state and local laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War (1865-1866) to limit the freedom of newly emancipated African Americans and maintain a racial hierarchy similar to slavery.
Black Codes
1. Founding document that birthed our nation and talked about the ideas that “all men are created equal” & the law should apply to everyone.?
2. First form of Government in the United States?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Articles of Confederation
The political realignment of the 1960s was largely driven by which issue?
Civil Rights & Social Policies
Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Missouri was added to the Union as a slave state, Main was added as a free state. this was done to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states in Congress.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
14th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
13th Amendment
1. What are the 1st three articles of the Constitution?
2. state their purpose?
3. who is apart of those articles?
Article I- Legislative Branch= Makes Laws=Congress (House of Representatives/Senate)
Article II- Executive Branch= Enforces the Law= President & Cabinet of Advisors
Article III- Judicial Branch= Interpreting the Law= US Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, District Courts.
Progressive Party Platform (Issues they ran on)
To promote civil service reform, women’s suffrage, and stronger regulation of corporations
1. Great Compromise of 1787?
2. What were the two plans & describe each plan?
1. It created a two-house (bicameral) legislature, balancing the interests of large and small states.
2. Virginia Plan(Large State)- wanted representation to be based on states population
New Jersey Plan (Small State)- wanted representation to be equal.
Direct Election of senators
17th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment