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soc st review set 3
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Standing Committees | Most of the work done in the House of Representatives is done by standing committees |
| Judicial Review | the right of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional |
| Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments to the Constitution protecting individual rights |
| How are constitutional amendments ratified? | 3/4ths of the states must ratify it |
| Due Process | the government must follow the same fair rules in all cases brought to trial - equal treatment under the Constitution |
| Impeachment - what does the house of representatives do? what does the senate do? | the house brings charges against a high government official accused of wrongdoing, the senate conduct the trial and acts as the jury |
| Confederation | a weak central government such as the Articles of Confederation |
| 9th Amendment | says that the states and the people have all other powers specifically given to the federal government |
| Right to appeal | when a person is convicted of a crime, they still have the right to ask a higher court to review the lower court's decision |
| Dates Washington was president | from 1789 to 1797 |
| Washington's Foreign Policy | He felt the new nation was too weak to take sides in disputes of other foreign nations with each other. The US should be neutral or not take sides |
| Protective Tariff | Northern's like Alexander Hamilton's proposed high tax on foreign goods because the tax encouraged Americans to buy goods manufactured by the factories in the north |
| John Marshall | The chief justice of the Supreme Court for 34 years. He established the principle of judicial review in the famous case Marbury vs Madison |
| Marbury vs Madison | in this 1803 case, John Marshall established that the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review: that is the right of the Supreme Court to decide if laws are constitutional |
| Louisiana Purchase | the US bought this territory in 1803 from France for $15 million dollars doubled the size of the US |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea held by Americans during the 1800's that the US should stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| Cause of the war of 1812 | the US entered this was with Britain because of impressment - the British forced American sailors against their will to work in the British Navy |
| Industrial Revolution | the change from producing goods by hand to making goods by machines using new forms of energy - began in the US in the early 1800's |
| steamboat | a new type of transportation which brought the greatest change to American life in the early 1800's |
| Cotton Gin | Invented by Eli Whitney in the early 1800's and led to an increased demand for slaves. Slavery |
| Monroe Doctrine | in 1828 President Monroe warned European nations not to interfere with the newly independent nations of Latin America and not to start new colonies anywhere in the western hemisphere |
| Precedent | an act or decision that sets an example for others to follow |
| Washington as first president | Washington was a very important president because he set precedents which future presidents would follow, such as having a cabinet to advise him and only serving two terms |
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