Bill of Rights
No quartering of troops
What is the 3rd Amendment?
Tax on imported goods
What is a Tariff?
The belief that America had the God-given right to expand West across the continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
Movement that tried to stop the consumption of alcohol
What is the Temperance movement?
Amendment that granted equal protection and citizenship to former slaves
What is the 14th Amendment?
The right to due process
What is the 5th Amendment?
A government by the people for the people, or _______ _________
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
One of the major causes of the US-Mexican War
What is the Southern Border Dispute?
Innovation that increased the demand for slaves in the South
What is the Cotton Gin?
Required the return of escaped enslaved people to their slaveholders
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is the 7th Amendment?
The idea that states can refuse to follow federal laws
What is Nullification?
Treaty that ended the US-Mexican War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
Allows for competition, freedom for businesses and consumers, and little government regulation
What is the Free Enterprise System?
No cruel punishment or excessive bail
What is the 8th Amendment?
Extended voting rights by ending this requirement/qualification to vote
What is property requirement?
Was bought for the US to build a railroad to avoid the Rocky Mountains
What is the Gadsden Territory?
Leading male African-American abolitionist
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
What is a Carpetbagger?
Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, are reserved to the states
What is the 10th Amendment?
Removal of Indian tribes West of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The process in which US territories become states
Invented the steamboat; lowered the cost of shipping goods and increased travel speed
Who is Robert Fulton?
Allowed for these two states to decide if they would be free or slavery states on the basis of popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?