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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This document said all people have batural rights. | Declaration of Independence |
| This docuemt written by thomas Paine said colonists break away from England. | Common Sense |
| Most colonies had this type of local government. | representative assemblies |
| this term refers to power being shared between the states and the federal government. | federalism |
| This country had a revolution soon after ours. | francefrance |
| "All men are created equal...are endowed...with certain unalienable rights" | Declaration of Independence |
| He wrote the Declaration of Independence. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The 3 branches of government having different powers refers to.... | separation of powers |
| This was the first American document expressing the idea of self-government. | Mayflower Compact |
| This first constitution created a weak central government. | Articles of Confeseration |
| These papers helped convince people to support a new Constitution with a strong central government. | Federalist papers |
| "...deriving their just powers from the concent of the governed" refers to this idea | popular sovereignty |
| Who has the power to declare war? | congress |
| the House of Representaitves is filled according to what? | the states population |
| the Senate is fill how? | equally |
| What was the name of the agreement establishing the House and the Senate at the Constitutioal Convention? | Great Compromise |
| What established that slaves would not be counted as a complete person when counting population? | 3/5s compromise |
| Alexander Hamilton helped create this political party? | Federalist |
| thomas jefferson believed that the Constitution should be interpreted how? | strictly word for word |
| George Washington's farewell address warned against what? | political parties |
| This was the chunk of land between the mississippi river and the Rockies we baught from France. | louisiana purchase |
| The Alien and Sedition acts were designed to hurt which group of people? | immigrants |
| This political party passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. | Federalists |
| This branch of government enforces the law. | Executive-President |
| This supreme court decision established the concept of judicial review. | Marbury v Madison |
| This is the idea that a state can choose to not obey a federal law. | nullification |
| The United States fought this country in the war of 1812. | Great Britain |
| These congressmen from the noth and west supported the war of 1812. | war hawks |
| After the Mexican War, the U.S. achieved its vision to expand west. | manifest destiny |
| The Adams-Onos treaty gave the U.S. this state. | Florida |
| this belief that european expansion into the western hemisphere was no longer allowed. | monroe doctrine |
| the primary cause of the war with mexico was to... | acquire mexican territory |
| this treaty ended the war of 1812? | treaty of ghent |
| Farmers and immigrants in the 1800s went here looking for work? | northern cities |
| This manmade waterway linked the great lakes to the hudson river? | erie canal |
| the first federal road project was called this? | the cumberland road |
| Which political organization founded by nativists attempted to exclude Catholics and immigrants from holding public office? | Know-nothing party |
| The common-school reforn movement was lead by this man ? | horace mann |
| this amendment to a bill would ban land acquired from mexican war to be open to slavery? | wilmont proviso |
| this compromise said that slavery was banned above the 36' 30" line. | missouri compromise |
| this compromise admitted california into the union as a free state? | compromise of 1850 |
| manifest destiny relates to America's expansion where? | westward |
| this was the treaty that ended the Mexican war? | treaty of guadalupe hidalgo |
| this was the expansionist president who started the war with mexico? | president polk |
| states ignoring federal laws they think are unfair is called what? | nullification |
| this man became the spokesman for the nullification movement in the south? | john c. calhoun |
| the emancipation proclamation only freed slaves from here? | areas still in rebellion |
| "four score and seven years ago..." quote comes from what speech? | gettysburg address |
| this was the commander of the confederate army? | robert E. lee |
| this was the president of the confederacy? | jefferson davis |
| this was the response in the north to the institution of a draft? | riots in new york |
| the alternative to lincoln's 10% plan was called this? | wade-davis bill |
| this amendment banned slavery in this country? | 13th |
| this organization helped freed slaves with education, food and legal advice. | freedmen's bureau |
| he replaced lincoln as president? | andrew johnson |
| these laws limited the freedoms of freed blacks in the south? | black codes |
| this political party wanted to force the south to change for the good? | radical republicans |
| this president was inpeached by congress? | johnson |
| this amendment gave blacks the right to vote? | 15th amendment |
| this refers to the separation of whites and blacks in public places? | segregation |
| this was the name of the laws that enforced segregation between the races? | jim crow |
| this court case made seperate but equal legal? | plessy v. ferguson |
| this was where freed blacks became indebted to landowners and had to share most of their crops? | sharecropping |
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