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Mid-term Review semester 1
Social Studies exam review semester 1
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Social Studies
8th Grade
01/19/2018

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Term
Reassigning of seats in the house, when?
Definition
10 years- with the census
Term
If state law contradicts federal law?
Definition
Federal law (constitution)
Term
Revolution that led Napoleon to sell LP-
Definition
Because of the revolution of Santo Domingo
Term
What limits power of gov and protects individual rights
Definition
The Bill of Rights
Term
What do first 3 articles of constitution do
Definition
Explain the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Term
Who traveled west on a trail through the Appalachian mts
Definition
Daniel Boone
Term
National road connected what?
Definition
Connected Ohio to the west
Term
Treaty that ended war of 1812
Definition
The Treaty of Ghent
Term
Anti federalists supported/didn’t support what
Definition
The constitution
Term
How can the US gov limit rights
Definition
when public health or safety is at risk.
Term
What did Lewis and Clark explore-
Definition
The Louisiana territory
Term
Why did Adams send negotiators to France
Definition
Because France had been capturing U.S ships
Term
What movement influenced the Constitution
Definition
was enlightenment
Term
What was Shays Rebellion
Definition
a revolt over farmers in Massachusetts, being jailed for unpaid taxes
Term
What practice violated neutral rights?
Definition
impressment
Term
When British forces joined Tecumseh
Definition
After the battle of Tippecanoe
Term
What can the executive branch do to legislation-
Definition
It can veto legislation
Term
Monroe term
Definition
That the government is nearly perfect
Term
How US got Florida/from who?
Definition
From spain/ it was ceded to the U.S
Term
Who can declare acts of congress unconstitutional?
Definition
The federal courts
Term
How many states had to approve the articles
Definition
13 States
Term
A decision form the court is?
Definition
Is the Court’s opinion
Term
Checks and balances
Definition
a system that maintains a balance of power in the branches of Government
Term
What has the final say under federal government?
Definition
The constitution
Term
What is judicial review
Definition
1). the constitution is the supreme law of the land. 2).the constitution must be followed when there is a conflict with another law. 3). The judicial branch can declare laws unconstitutional. The Supreme Court reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government .
Term
What ran factories in New England
Definition
water power (water mills)
Term
Hamilton’s idea for US gov
Definition
to pay off confederations government’s debts
Term
What was the whiskey rebellion
Definition
civil uprising against taxes
Term
Hamilton’s idea if public creditors were paid off?
Definition
it will support the management of natural finances.
Term
Amendment to protect people accused of crimes
Definition
Fifth amendment
Term
Where is the process for changing the constitution started?
Definition
It started in congress
Term
How did they connect new York to great lakes
Definition
By the lake Erie canal
Term
What is free enterprise
Definition
Economic freedom, profit, private property, and competition are the major elements of free enterprise
Term
Alien and sedition acts did what?
Definition
eople became more suspicious of Aliens residents who are not citizens. Some Americans questioned whether these Aliens would remain loyal if the U.S went to war with France. supported by federalist.
Term
Who did little turtle beat
Definition
General Arthur St Clair
Term
Who has no term limits?
Definition
senators and state representatives
Term
Who beat the British on lake Erie
Definition
Oliver Hazard Perry
Term
How many key principles to constitution?
Definition
7 key principles
Term
How long does vice president serve?
Definition
four years
Term
Who invented cotton gin
Definition
Eli Whitney
Term
manumission
Definition
The freeing of individual enslaved persons.
Term
bicameral
Definition
having two separate lawmaking chambers
Term
depreciate-
Definition
to fall in value (fallen value of paper money)
Term
census-
Definition
an official count of the population.
Term
Missouri compromise-
Definition
aimed to keep a balance in the senate.
Term
Lowell girls-
Definition
A group of female factory workers
Term
Robert Fulton
Definition
Designed the Clermont (steam boat )
Term
John Locke-
Definition
Wrote that government is based on a contract between people and their ruler
Term
Roger Sherman
Definition
Wrote the Great Compromise
Term
Eli Whitney-
Definition
Created the cotton gin
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