U.S. Constitution
These 5 rights are protected by the 1st amendment.
What are freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government?
What is the length of time that Supreme Court justices serve?
What is for life?
A tax on this item brought rebellion and rage as many small farmers felt it hurt them by decreasing their income.
Thomas Jefferson sent this group to explore the Louisiana Purchase and attempt to find a water passage to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Exploration? Or What is the Corps of Discovery?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
The 13th Amendment
The Constitution gives the president this power over laws passed by Congress.
What is veto power?
This branch interprets the laws.
Judicial Branch.
Which of the Founding Fathers favored a strong national government, the creation of a National Bank, and a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This invention helped make the plantation system and commercial agriculture the main economic activity of the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This allowed Missouri in as a slave state and Maine in as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Each state gets a certain number of representatives in the House of Representatives based on this?
What is the state's population?
How long of a term do members of the House of Representatives and the Senate each serve?
What is 2 year terms for the House, and 6 year terms for the Senate?
When Washington decided to form a cabinet and not to run for a third term, he was setting an important what?
What is a precedent?
This is the belief that the U.S. will settle all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Compromise of 1850 included this law, which attempted to keep slaves from running away from their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
My interpretation of how the English government worked was that it protected the liberty of the people by separating the power among three branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
This is taken every 10 years to determine population.
What is the census?
During the French Revolution, what did Washington encourage?
What is neutrality?
This invention helped make it possible to use unskilled labor in factories and made manufacturing easier & cheaper.
What are interchangeable parts?
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery? (power of the people)
popular soverignty
Created by the Second Continental Congress in an attempt to have organization to fight the British, this was the first Constitution for the colonies.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Elects the President.
The Electoral College
One of the most pressing problems that the first Secretary of the Treasury faced was the amount fo money that the government owed to others.
What is the national debt?
Plan to strengthen and unify the nation and create a strong economy where the North would produce manufactured goods, the South would produce food and cotton, there would be one national currency, a stronger transportation system would be developed to facilitate trade, and all regions would help to support one another.
What is the main reason that the Union strategy for defeating the South included a naval blockade of Southern ports?
What is to prevent the South from selling cotton in Europe in exchange for war supplies? (Keep them from making money or receiving reinforcement of supplies).