Constitutional Foundations
What document was included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that individual civil rights would be protected from the federal government?
The Bill of Rights
What was the final reason the south separated from the Union?
the election of Abraham Lincoln.
The desire to expand the United States is known as what?
Manifest Destiny
These people exposed the abuses in government and industry (Upton Sinclair was one)
Muckrakers
What is a law that prevents large corporations from eliminating their competition (monopolies)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890),Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Why was the government created by the Articles of Confederation unsuccessful at solving many major problems?
weak central (federal) government.
The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) helped to increase sectional conflict because the decision
denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories
In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned against
foreign alliances or forming political parties.
The Progressive movement supported the idea that the federal government should do what?
regulate big business
The “clear and present danger” doctrine established in Schenck v. United States (1919) concerned the issue of what?
freedom of speech (espionage act)
This conflict was resolved during the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
representation in Congress.
In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to do what?
Let people vote on the issue of slavery
What major trend related to where the population lived occurred during the industrialization boom of the late 1800s?
Urbanization
What was one outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
the principle of judicial review was established.
What principle of the United States Constitution is intended to ensure that no one branch of government has more power than another branch?
checks and balances
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were adopted in Southern States primarily to
keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote
Which major population shift in the late 1800s occurred as a result of industrialization?
What is rural residents to urban areas
In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between which groups of people (ideology)?
proslavery and antislavery groups
Federalism is a term used to define the division of power between the
the state and the national government.
The Radical Republicans in Congress opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because Lincoln
did not want harsh punishments for the South
Which policy of the United States was designed to prevent new colonization of the Western Hemisphere?
the Monroe Doctrine
In the early 1900s, Progressive Era reformers sought to increase citizen participation in government by supporting the
direct election of senators
The development of the Marshall Plan and the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were part of President Harry Truman’s effort to
rebuild Europe and limit the spread of communism (containment)