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80 Cards in this Set
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What are the parts of our government's bicameral legislature? |
Senate and House of Representatives |
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Which part of our Constitution is most concerned with protecting individual rights? |
Bill of Rights |
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What is the name of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and Britain in particular? |
Common Sense |
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Which document was written to state that the colonies are free from British rule? |
Declaration of Independence |
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Hamilton's plan to pay off national debt, pass a tariff to help American manufacturers, and form a national bank most directly focused on improving which part of the American nation? |
Industry (North) |
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What was the document creating the first attempt at government in the new country called? |
Articles of Confederation |
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What is a proposed law called? |
Bill |
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Name the term referring to the group of advisors to the President |
Cabinet |
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Which term refers to the food, disease, plants, religion, and weapons that were introduced to both European and the Americas as a result of the exploration of the Americas? |
Columbian Exchange |
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What document is the "Law of the Land" - a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government? |
Consitution |
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What rights are considered part of the "due process of law"? |
jury trial, public trial, habeas corpus |
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What is the institution called that directly elects the president? |
Electoral college |
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What is the branch of government enforces or carries out the nation's laws; made up of the President and administrative departments? |
Executive branch |
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What is a series of essays published by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison to convince people to radiate the constitution called? |
Federalist papers |
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Name the struggle between France and England over the Ohio valley. Native Americans joined forces when it seemed one side would win, and the British victory removed the "French Threat" which made the colonies less dependent on Britain for protection as well as bonded the colonies in battle |
French and Indian war |
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What is the production, consumption or use of goods and services called? |
Economy |
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Name the philosophical movement in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized the use of reason to determine people's rights and the proper way to govern- influenced the colonists desire of independence |
Enlightenment |
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What is a system of government where there are 2 levels of government, the national and state; power is shared between the two levels? |
federalism |
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Name the thirteen original English colonies |
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire |
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Who was the first president of the new republic? |
George Washington |
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Name the religious movement throughout the colonies in the early 18th century that emphasized individual connection to God rather than dependence on church leaders- helped led to sense of independence in the colonies |
Great Awakening |
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What was the first freely elected representative body in the English colonies? |
House of Burgesses |
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Which branch of government interprets law, punished criminals and settles disputes between states; A division of the federal government that is made up of the national court? |
Judicial branch |
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What were the opening battles of the American Revolution? |
Lexington and Concord |
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What term refers to the amount of money the government owes? |
National debt |
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Which idea proposed a two-house legislature that combines the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan |
Great Compromise |
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Name the first permanent English colony established in North America in what today is Virginia? |
Jamestown |
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Which branch of government proposes bills and passes them into laws; made up of Congress- House of Representatives and Senate? |
Legislative branch |
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What is the system of maintaining and controlling wealth through trade; goal-export more than you import called? |
merchantilism |
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Name the legislation passed by congress to establish a political structure for the Northwest Territory and create a system for the admission of new states. Protected civil liberties, requires public education, and banned slavey |
Northwest Ordinance |
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Which term means to make a formal request of the government |
petition |
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Which group convened in Philadelphia, sent a declaration to the king, formed the Continental Army, and later served as the government during war? |
Second Continental Congress |
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Which movement was led by Daniel Shay, a Massachusetts farmer who fought the courts seizing of his farms with a large group of farmers also in debt. The new government was not equipped to deal with the crisis and this event helped lead to the Constitutional Convention? |
Shay's Rebellion |
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What are emotional Christian songs sung by slaved called? |
Spirituals |
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Name the trading newts in which good traveled among the American colonies, England, and Africa? |
Triangular trade |
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What was the farmers' revolt against the US government due to increased tax on whiskey called? |
Whiskey Rebellion |
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What term means to formally approve and put into effect a plan of government |
ratify |
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What do we call the principle or breaking up of a government into different branches so power is shared and there are checks and balances, to prevent tyranny? |
Separation of powers |
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What term refers to forced labor, in the case of the Americans was practices on Native Americans and Africans? |
Slavery |
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What word describes a tax on imports or exports? |
tariff |
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What term means to reject |
Veto |
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What term refers to the antislavery movement |
Abolition |
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Name the term for the series of laws passed in southern states restricting the rights of African Americans |
Black Codes |
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Which term means a country grants land to another country |
Cede |
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What is Henry Clay's proposed agreement called that allowed CA to enter as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession which upset the balance between free and slave states, also allowed the Fugitive Slave Act to be passed? |
Compromise of 1850 |
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What is the name of the political party created by Thomas Jefferson? |
Democratic- Rebublicans |
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What was the plan to unite the nation through a series of roads and canals? |
American System |
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What type of economic system is based on free trade and markets? |
Capitalism |
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Name the war fought between the north and south after the south seceded the union from 1861-1865, bloodiest war ever fought on U.S soil |
Civil War |
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What is a business that sells portions of ownership (shares/stock) called? |
Corporation |
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Which notice is given by Lincoln after the battle at Antietam, states that slaves in rebel states were free, began the end of slavery in the south? |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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Who were supporters of the idea that the national government should be strong? It was also a political party founded by Alexander Hamilton? |
Federalists |
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Which group created agencies to assist blacks in post-slavery south, set up schools, medical facilities, and leased land to poor whites and blacks? |
Freedman's Bereau |
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What is the movement of people from one country to another country after leaving their homeland called? |
Immigration |
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What term refers to a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production? |
Industrial Revolution |
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What is a name for an undeveloped area? |
Frontier |
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Which law stated that escaped slaves must be returned to their masters even if they escaped to a free state? |
Fugitive Slave Act |
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What is the banning of trade with a country called? |
Embargo |
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Name the speech given by Lincoln commemorating the dead and the stating that sacrifice must be made for the greater good |
Gettysburg Address |
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Which term refers to a national policy of avoiding involvement in other countries affairs? |
Isolationism |
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What term represents support for an increase in voting rights by lowering property requirements, abolishing the influential National Bank, and encouraging westward expansion? |
Jacksonian Democracy |
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State the name of the belief that it was the U.S's destiny to control the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans |
Manifest Destiny |
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What act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state as long as no new slave states entered the union above the 36/30 latitude line? |
Missouri Compromise |
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Which political party was a group of reformers known for trying to solve social and political problems in the late 1800s and early 1900s? |
Progressives |
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Which Supreme Court case stated that blacks, free or slave, were not citizens of the U.S? |
Scott vs. Sanford |
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Which act overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing states popular sovereignty, the ability to vote whenever or not they would become a free or slave state? |
Progressives |
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Which war did the U.S fight because of a belief in "manifest destiny." The US gained territory including parts of CA, AZ, NM, TX, UT, and CO? |
Mexican-American war |
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Which term means a sense of pride and devotion to one's country? |
nationalism |
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What period of time in the US describes reunification of the nation following the Civil War? |
Reconstruction |
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What is the act of formally withdrawing from the Union? |
Secession |
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Which term refers to separate facilities for whites and blacks that began during reconstruction and did not end until the civil rights movement in the 1950s? |
Segration |
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What was the first national women's rights meeting called? |
Seneca Falls Convention |
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What term represents the division of the US into separate regions- North, South, and West? |
Sectionalism |
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What term means "the right to vote" |
Suffrage |
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What type of goods are called textiles |
Cloth |
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Which philosophy proposes the idea that people could rise above the material things in live? |
Transcendentalism |
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Which amendment banned slavery in the US |
13th |
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Which amendment gave color-blind suffrage for male citizens? |
15th |
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What are the tools used to produce goods or do work called? |
Technology |
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Which term refers to the removal of Native Americans from the east to Oklahoma? Cherokee from Georgia fought the court order, but were forces to move, thousands died on the trek from starvation, cold, and disease. |
Trail of Tears |
