Term
| Government in which citizens rule through elected representatives. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| How many states had to approve the Articles of Confederation? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What is the final authority under the federal system of government? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The man who suggested the Great Compromise? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who was the presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Division of powers between national and state governmnents is called a.... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The system that keeps any one branch of government from gaining to much power. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Federalists supported the.... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The word for a " two-house" legislature. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| America's first constitution |
|
Definition
| Articles of Confederation |
|
|
Term
| What ordinance helped stop the spread of slavery to the west? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The book of essays supporting the Constitution. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Age that influenced the framers of the Constitution. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The most distinctive feature of the US government |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The president can "check" Congress through the... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The first state to ratify the Constitution. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Judiciary Act of 1789 established a federal.... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| A person favoring one side of a political issue |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Democratic Republicans believed in what kind of banks? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What act made it illegal to criticize the government? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Immigrants from what country could not even APPLY for citizenship. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What act made it more difficult for white aliens to become citizens? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Resolutions that spelled out a theory of states' rights |
|
Definition
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
|
|
Term
| First 10 Amendments to the Constitution |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| How much the government owes |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| George Washington believed that poltical parties would.... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Jay's Treaty was considered by Americans to be.... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What political party believed in a National bank? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Republicans and Federalists held meetings called |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Act that gave the president the right to deport aliens. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Act that made it a crime to speak, write, or publish false, scandalous and malicious criticisms of the government |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The resolutions that said that states might nullify a federal law. |
|
Definition
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
|
|
Term
| The election of 1800 was decided by the.. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| When the Supreme Court rules on acts of other branches of government. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What country did Thomas Jefferson purchase Louisiana from? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What Act prohibited trade with another country? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun |
|
|
Term
| The treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who killed Alexander Hamilton? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The amendment that changed the requirements for presidential elections. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Supreme Court Justice that broadened the Supreme Court's power. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The two men that led the exploration of the Louisiana territory. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Native American who built a strong confederacy |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Battle that secured the northern border of the US. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The change in the way goods were made in the mid-1700s FIRST appeared in what country? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| In what region did America's Industrial Revolution begin? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who invented the cotton gin? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What are the four elements of the Free Enterprise system? |
|
Definition
| Competition, economic freedom, private property, and profit. |
|
|
Term
| Pioneers usually migrated west as... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What system called for a tariff to stimulate growth of American industries? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Set the official border between the US and Canada |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The revolution that changed the way people worked. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Chief supporter of state sovereignty |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Launched the factory system in the US |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Thirty years after the first census was taken,the population of the US was... |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Tried to resolve disputes through compromise. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What did Virginia and New York want ADDED to the Constitution? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Were the Articles of Confederation written before or after the Revolutionary War ENDED? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Which plan provided the framework for the national government? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Which compromise decided how slaves would be counted in figuring a state's population? |
|
Definition
| The Three-fifths Compromise |
|
|
Term
| How long is a president's term in office? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Which branch of government has the power to PASS/MAKE laws? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who has the power to declare war? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate to serve for LIFE? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| How can Congress override a presidential veto? |
|
Definition
| Both houses must pass the bill by a two-thirds majority. |
|
|
