Vocabulary
National Road
A historic highway that in the early 19th century led from Maryland through the Appalachian Mountains to St. Louis
What is the first national government?
Articles of Confederation
The first 10 amendments of the constitution?
The Bill of Rights
This plan favored large states, and wanted representation based on population?
The Virginia plan
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
created an orderly procedure for establishing territories applying for statehood.
What is the American founding document?
Constitution
How many amendments are there?
27
What is the year the constitution a ratified?
1787
McCullough v Maryland
case concerning the National bank established the power of the national government over the state government.
what is an amendment?
a change or an addition to the constitution.
It announced and declared our independence from Great Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
what is the six goals of the preamble?
what is establishing, justice, insure domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty.
Abolitionism
movement to end slavery
The chairperson at the constitutional convention?
George Washington
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Unalienable Rights
What is federalism?
what is the power between state and federal government.
Trail of tears
Forced on this trail after Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 into law.
supremacy clause making the constitution the "supreme law of the land."
Article 6
The amendment requires the police to have a warrant to search your person or property.
who can make laws?
what is the legislative branch?