Unit 1 Test- Introduction

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Legislative Branch

Senate and House of Representatives: drafts, debates, and vote on laws.

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Executive Branch

President: Responsibility to carry out /enforce laws

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Judicial Branch

Courts system - Interprets laws and ensures laws are fair

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Bicameral Legisature

House of Representatives and Senate - Ensures checks and balances

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House of Senates

Two Representatives per state to ensure fairness

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House of Representatives

Representatives based on population

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Checks and Balances

Ensures equal power, prevents abusive usage of power, and protects rights

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Federalists

Wanted a strong Central government, supported the constitution

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Antifederalist

Wanted a strong STATE government, feared strong central government, did not support ratification of the constitution

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New Jersey Plan

Alternative to Virginia Plan, Failed, Beneficial towards smaller states, strong state government, representatives NOT based on population

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Virginia Plan

Representation based on Population, beneficial to larger states, succeeded, strong central government

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The Great Compromise

An agreement, created the Bicameral Legislature to settle the dispute between smaller and larger states

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Manifest Destiny

Belief that Americans were destines by god to expand westward , represented Americans national identity, affected Native Americans by taking away their land

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Indian Removal Act

Relocation of native Americans into southeastern U.S , to help the expansion of white settlers onto fertile land

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Trail of Tears

Devastating Journey of relocation of native Americans towards Mississippi river, many died due to harsh conditions and diseases due to lack of medical care.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Agreement that ended Mexican-American War, America gained 55% of Mexico’s land, paid 15 million, and also Mexicans got granted naturalized citizenship

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Monroe Doctrine

Foreign policy to assert U.S. influence in western hemisphere and opposed European influence and colonialism

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Triangular Trade

Transatlantic Trading system among Europe, Africa and the Americas

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North

Did not support slavery, focused on industrial, industrialization started in north

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South

supported slavery, agricultural based, used slaves as free labor for their economic growth

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Causes Of Civil War

South and North conflict of slavery and states, and state rights

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Slavery and the Courts

The legal battles that showed struggle of slaves to get out of slavery even though they were in free state, showing how judiciary was a tool to uphold slavery

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Dred Scott Case

Enslaved individual that got ruled against from supreme court due to the courts belief that slaves were property and not citizens and that they must return even if they’re in a free state

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Missouri Compromise

A legislative agreement in 1820 to address the issue of slavery expansion into new states , emerged from Missouri choosing if they should be slave or free state

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Compromise of 1850

To help resolve tension of north and south about territorial expansion into the new territories after Mexican-American War

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Escalation of tensions between north and south, act to organize Kansas and Nebraska territories

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Abolition Movement

Social and Political effort to end slavery and promotion of rights and freedoms of slaves.

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Efforts of antislavery in south

some individuals and groups worked in silence, offering help to slaves to escape through the underground railroad.

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efforts of antislavery in north

moral, religious, or political motivation to help enslaved people escape and gain their freedom, some people went to the south and saved enslaved people via the underground railroad, also some people did petitions, speeches, and publications

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opposition of abolition

south argued it was necessary for their economy and social order, while in the north opposition came from individuals who feared the economic and social impact of emancipation

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sectionalism

division of north and south over issues of slavery economic interest and political power

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