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| articles of confederation |
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| 1775 first attempt at a government weak federal govt strong state govt |
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| proccess of territories becoming a state |
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| laws that are implied but not written into constitution |
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Power is divided between the national
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| - wanted to strictly follow the constitution no unwritten laws |
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| wanted a loose interpretation of the constitution, wanted to create a national bank. |
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| It gave the states equal representation in the Senate and representation to population in the House. |
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| every 1 slave is 3/5th of a person towards representtion in house of reps. |
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| Preamble to the United States Constitution |
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The power of government comes from the
people. |
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| judicial branch looks at laws and determines if constitutional or not |
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| The primary purpose of the Federalist Papers |
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was to encourage ratification of the United States
Constitution |
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Great Plains was added to the United
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institution of slavery was continued under the
original Constitution of the United States |
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Southern states would not agree to a
constitution that banned slavery. |
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“make all laws which shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution the
foregoing powers, |
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the development of a national
two-party political system was mainly the result of |
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| debates over the National Bank and tariffs |
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| most famous for assembly line and interchangable parts |
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| represented a conflict between science and religion |
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| after the president wins the election he replaces govt with his people. |
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| west side of north america |
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| establish the Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) |
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| The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. |
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| was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. |
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| Worcester v. Georgia (1832) |
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| was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. |
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) |
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| also known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories, and that people of African descent (both slave and free) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.[2] |
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| were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."[1 |
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Supreme Court
decisions under Chief Justice John Marshall
(1801–1835) |
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The powers of the federal government were
increased |
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late 1800s, rapid industrial development
resulted in |
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| an increase in the rate of urbanization |
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| outcome of the whiskey Rebellion (1794) |
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| strenghtened the national government. |
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| called for an end to European intervention in the American continents (both north and south). |
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| Roosevelt asserted that European nations should not intervene in countries to the south of the US, however under certain conditions, United States intervention might be justified. |
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| A federal law passed in response to complaints by workers on the West Coast that competition from Chinese immigrants was driving down their wages and threatening white “racial purity.” |
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