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| In Charge Of Making Laws. |
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| The Branch Of Government That Enforces Laws. |
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Part Of Federal Govt. And Involves Supreme Court And 9 Justices. (Interpret The Laws) |
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| Spread Some Diseases That Greatly Lowered Some Or Many Cultures. Also It Spread New Crops Throughout Populations. |
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| Early attempt to form a union of the colonies. |
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| When the states wanted more votes, but they didnt want black people to count as a whole person, they didnt want to give them that much equality. So they came up with the 3/5 compromise to include slaves in voting, but they only counted as 3/5 of a total vote. |
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| Group of members are bound together with a governing represenative head. |
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| Articles Of Confederation |
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| Radification legally uniting the states by compact of the U.S. as a union of confederation govt. |
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| Major philosopher. Composer of enlightenment which influenced liberal and socialist theory. |
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| Law made that needs a tax to be paid on any tansfer of certain documents. If that tax is paid then that person gets an official stamp on their documents. |
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| Created in response to Virginia's Plan call of 2 houses of congress. Less populous states were apposed to giving most control national govt. to the larger states. |
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| When rules or laws were slowly stretched out, or bent. Eventually giving power to almost brake a rule, but not quite. |
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the first legislative assebly by colony of virginia. |
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| Act to raise revenue (payment of others expences from income of government from taxation). Passed by the parliament of great britian. |
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| A proposal by virginia delegates for an over all plans for debates in the convention. |
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| Nation depends on its nation and world economy and international trade isnt changed. |
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| Governing document, passed by the pilgrims who crossed the atlantic seeking the right to practice christianity. |
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| Undocumented British policy avoiding strict laws by parliament meant to keep American colonies obedient to Britian. |
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| An agreement between large and small states. It said that a bicameral leg., coming from a current U.S. senate and house of reps. |
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| Introductery statement to a document and its meaning beihind its philosophy. |
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| Where the 3 branches of government were put in place to prevent abuse of power. It split into the 3 sections. |
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| Needed a king to renounce certain rights, it was for respect of those certain rights. |
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| Was a 7 year war. American indians allied with the royal French against the British. |
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| A parlaiment passed to help to get colonial assemblies to pay quartering. |
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When theres a certain limit on the governmental intervention by law. Or just the most amount of government structures or people. |
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| Act made to seperate the government to spread out the powers. |
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| Declaration Of Independence |
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To declare which places or sections of break away states are failed or successed. (If that makes sense at all) |
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| 85 articles stating the ratification of the U.S. constitution |
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| Power the judiciary have to stop acts made by executive or legislative branches of govt. |
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| Gained possesion of 828,000 square miles of French territory to the U.S.A. |
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| Agreement passed between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in the U.S. congress for regulation of slavery in the Western territories. |
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| U.S. policy that said European powers couldnt colonize with new independent nations of America anymore. |
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| Taking back an already existing legal practice. Either by making it illegal or getting rid of it entirely. |
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| Where the states are split |
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People who help the government officials with politics |
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| 29,670 square miles of what is now new mexico and southern arizona |
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| Relocating native americans from the east of the mississippi river to the west |
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| Book published in 1852 about slavery and the attitudes people had towards african american and intensified the sectional conflict leading to the american civil war |
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| Describes a time in the U.S. political history that reduced bitterness. |
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| Faught between the U.S. and the U.K. of Britian and Ireland. |
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| Act of congress of confed. of the U.S. Creation of the northwest territory ans the first organized out of the south of the great lakes. |
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| Political practice after winning an election for the political party. Giving govt. jobs to the workers as a reward for working towards their victories. |
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| When reporters sacrifice their reputation and some times their job to get to true facts. Get the dirt behind things. |
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| Conflict between Spain and the U.S. that started 1898. Started after America's demand for Spain to peacefully solve the cuban fight for independence was rejected. |
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| Banned "entoxicating liquor" unless it was used for religious purposes. |
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| Right to vote, or to exercise that right. |
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| Speach made to try and convince the country that the war was faught for a moral reason. By Woodrow Wilson in 1918. |
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| International organization resulted from the treaty of versailles 1919-1920. Was to prevent war through collective security. |
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| Women of the 20's that changed their look and listened to jazz. They were a completely opposite vision of modern women of the time. |
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Oil field in public land in Wyoming. (Teapot shaped boulder over it) |
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| The great depression was a point in time when stocks crashed and everyone went into debt and everyones lives were ruined. |
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| Inventor of the first model T cars |
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| When whoever wanted to be presedent sat and talked to the people. Calm chats. |
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| Japanese bombed americans with a sneak attack. |
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| 33rd presedent of the U.S., whe he was vice pres. he succeeded Roosevelt who died 3 months before his 4th term |
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| All nations should have equal commercial and trade rights in China |
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| Any journalism that exposes any scandals or dirt on anyone |
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| Keeps state govt. from denying any citizens voting right because of gender |
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| Slogan describing Roosevelts proposition to the monroe doctrine |
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Statements given by Roosevelt to promise relief for the poor |
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| Law made to bring bake alcohol but to older people, 21 and up |
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| When dust/sand storn rolled over and destroyed a major majority or farms and lands |
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| When the states basically turned their backs to one another. Sending numerous threats but no actual serious actions |
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| Keeping communism at bay, making sure its kept in and doesnt spread any further. |
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| First sattilite sent to space. Everyone was freaked out because they thought if that was up there then weapons could be sent to space as well |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Gave Lyndon B Johnson the right to use of military with an authorized declaration of war. |
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| Resolution of congress in U.S. that says the presedent can only send out armed forces with the word of congress. |
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| Final act of security and cooperatin in europe. This was held in Helsinki Finland. July and August of 75, 35 states signed the declaration in attempt to have better relations between cummunist bloc and the west. |
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"Tricky Dick" he was called for the Watergate scandal. People were robbing the Watergate hotel and Nixon knew about it but kept it under-wraps and he tapped the phone lines in the building. He was eventually caught but he was pardoned which had tons of people out-raged. |
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| System of legalized racial discrimination and segrigation given by the national party of government in south africa between 1948-94 |
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| Made in a conference in Guam in 1969 by Richard Nixon. He stated that U.S. expected it's allies to take care of their own military. This doctrine argued peace through the partnership of the American allies. |
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Former presedent of south africa, first to be elected a full represenative democratic election. Before his presedency, he was anti-apartied and leader of african national congress. |
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| With succession to presedency and getting vice presedent and responding to presedential dissabillities. |
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| Nixon was tapped in the phone lines at Watergate and had people who spied and looked out. Also there was a burgerlery and Nixon covered up for it. Ruining documents of peoples incomes and other info Nixon was able to keep money. |
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| When people were pretty much drones. Everyone had build similar houses and complexes. Women were basically the streo-typical house wife while men worked..it was a boring dull, play by play life. |
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| Was a race of who could get weapons or more technology in space. |
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North American Free Trade Agreement. Trade bloc in North America by the government of U.S. Canada and Mexico. |
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| Transfer of certain powers from the U.S. federal government to the states. |
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| Name for a top secret 14,000 pages of U.S. report about the history of the governments internal plans of the vietnam war. |
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School of the branch that deals with economy, argues that economic growth can be most effective from peoples fears to produce goods and services. such as adjusting income taxes. |
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