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Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The system of _____________________________ was included in the Constitution to ensure that one branch of government would not gain too much power. | Checks & Balances |
| The __________________ is most directly affected by the results of the federal census. | House of Representatives |
| Federalists agreed to add a ___________________ to gain support for ratification of the U.S. Constitution. | Bill of Rights |
| The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights BOTH stress the importance of ______________________. | Individual freedoms and liberty |
| The idea that people have the right to rebel against an unjust government was represented in the ___________________. | Declaration of Independence |
| The U.S. Constitution was an improvement over the Articles of Confederation because it balanced the power between _____________ and ______________ governments. | national; state |
| The __________________ was included in the Constitution to allow it to adapt to changing times. | amendment process |
| Delegates to the Constitutional Convention (1787) wrote a new constitution because they believed that a stronger __________________ was necessary. | central government |
| Because many colonists had faced religious discrimination in Europe, the authors of the Constitution established separation of __________________ & __________________. | church; state |
| Marbury v. Madison established the idea of __________________. | judicial review |
| The principle of __________________ is power being divided between the states and national government. | federalism |
| The _______ Amendment deals primarily with the right of self-expression. | First |
| The President of the United States is elected directly by the __________________. | Electoral College |
| Amendments added after the __________________ were intended to provide legal and political rights for African Americans. | Civil War |
| __________________ Laws were intended to keep blacks and whites separated. | Jim Crow |
| __________________ is the separation of people by race. | segregation |
| One of the reasons the Ku Klux Klan was formed was to prevent formerly __________________ from exercising their rights. | enslaved persons |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. used __________________ to protest social injustice. | civil disobedience |
| Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used to prevent African Americans from __________________. | voting |
| Plessy v. Ferguson established the "separate but equal" principle which resulted in the continuation of __________________. | racial segregation |
| A major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was to end racial __________________. | segregation |
| A successful bus boycott took place in __________________ in 1955-1956. | Montgomery, Alabama |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas resulted in "separate but equal" being called __________________. | unconstitutional |
| __________________ was the NAACP attorney who worked to enhance the rights of African Americans and later became the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court. | Thurgood Marshall |
| __________________ was a young Baptist minister who became the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights movement. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| President __________________ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. | Johnson |
| President __________________ proposed the Civil Rights Act in 1963. | Kennedy |
| The president and vice president must be __________________. (Immigrants can't be president.) | natural born citizens |
| __________________ came to America to improve the quality of life. | Immigrants |
| __________________ describes when immigrants start becoming part of American culture. | Assimilation |
| __________________ is the blending of many traditions & cultures into one America. | Melting Pot |
| __________________ opened up in 1892 to process immigrants. | Ellis Island |
| At Ellis island, immigrants had to pass a __________________. | health inspection |
| Immigrants played an important role in the growth of __________________ and led to the development of many diverse ethnic neighborhoods. | cities |
| Between 1820 & 1860, most immigrants came from __________________ & __________________. | Ireland; Germany |
| Between 1890 & 1920, the "new" immigrants came from __________________ & __________________ Europe. | Southern; Eastern |
| In the late 1800s/early 1900s, many immigrants faced __________________ because they spoke different languages and had different customs. | discrimination |
| __________________ were people who were against immigrants. | Nativists |
| The quota system (1920s) was designed to __________________ the number of immigrants from certain areas. | limit |
| The __________________ act was passed to prevent Chinese immigrants from entering the United States. | Chinese Exclusion |
Created by:
Mrs. Zoeller