Constitution
What are the 3 branches of government and what do they do?
legislative makes laws
executive enforces laws
judicial interprets laws
What document did the constitution replace?
Articles of Confederation
Describe how the north and south were different before the war
North: industrialized, factories, trade, urban centers, transportation
South: plantation system,, cash crops, rural lifestyle, slavery, little industry
This court cases ruled that slaves were not free because they were property
Dred Scott v Sanford
List one new technology of transportation method during the gilded age
technology: factory system, interchangeable parts, steam engine
transportation: canals and steamships, railroads, transcontinental railroad
What did the 3/5 clause state
counted 3/5 of the slave population for representation and taxation
Define federalism
division of power between state and national government
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri would be added as a slave state and Maine would be added a free state to balance out slavery
No slavery above the 26'30 line
What was the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
It showed the cruelty which slaves faced and further polarized the north and south
What was the governments view on big business during the gilded age?
They believed in laissez faire
social Darwinism
What was the Great Compromise
It took the Virginia and New Jersey Plans to create a bicameral legislature one senate has equal representation House is based on population
Which court case established judicial review
Marbury v Madison
Compromise of 1850
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Pro slave groups flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not to allow slavery
Who were Rockefeller and Carnegie
Rockefeller- Standard Oil
Carnegie- Steel
What were the Federalist papers?
essays written to influence citizens to support the Constitution's ratification
What was added to the constitution so the anti-federalists would ratify it?
Bill of Rights
This act overturned the Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
This person abolitionist was involved in Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown
Gospel of Wealth
What is the supremacy clause?
States the the Constitution is supreme over state laws
define limited government
power of the national government is limited by congress
How did the nullification crisis play a role in causing the Civil War?
states in the south were trying to overrule the constitution which is the supreme law of the land
What did the south do after Lincoln won the election of 1860?
seceded from the union
This act was an attempt promote fair competition and prevent monopolies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act