5004: Social Studies Praxis

freedom of speech, religion, and of the the press

1st Amendment

right to bear arms

2nd Amendment

quartering of soldiers

3rd Amendment

forbids unreasonable search and seizures

4th Amendment

due process, self-incrimination, double jeopardy

5th Amendment

right to a speedy trial

6th Amendment

right to a trial by jury

7th Amendment

prohibits unreasonable bail and cruel and unusual punishment

8th Amendment

people retain unenumerated rights

9th Amendment

powers not formally granted to Federal government are RESERVED for the states

10th Amendment

pertaining to procedures for electing President and Vice President

12th Amendment

prohibits slavery

13th Amendment

amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, including slaves

14th Amendment

prohibits voting restrictions based on race

15th Amendment

prohibition of alcohol

18th Amendment

prohibits voting restrictions based on gender

19th Amendment

repeals prohibition amendment

21st Amendment

interprets laws

judicial branch

How many Supreme Court Justices are there? Who are they nominated by?

9; President

Makes laws; impeach President

Legislative branch

House of Representatives serve a ____ year term. Must be _____ years old. They are elected by whom?

2; 25; the people

Senators serve a _____ year term and must be _____ years old. They are elected by whom?

6; 30; state legislatures

President must be _____ years old and a US resident for ___ years.

35; 14

coin money, regulate trade, raise forces, declare war, conduct foreign relations... powers are designated to state/national government/both?

National

regulate trade and business in a state, establish public schools, pass license requirements for professionals, establish local governments... powers are designated to state/national government/both?

State

levy and collect taxes, borrow money, establish courts, set punishments... powers are designated to state/national government/both?

both

Following the French and Indian War, King George forbade the colonist from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

Royal Proclamation of 1763

written to declare our independence from Great Britain*(written in what year)*

Declaration of Independence; 1776

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to one another.... We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...

Declaration of Independence

written to describe the functions of national government of the US after we declared our independence from Great Britain; *written in what year?*

Articles of Confederation; 1777

Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation

no power to tax, no executive branch, no judicial branch, 9 states had to approve before a law could be passed, and states began printing their own money

armed uprising in Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among citizenry. State government collected taxes on individuals and on their trade. Result was realizing need for Supreme Court system, and a new Constitution

Shay's Rebellion

plan for new government that based representation on states' population; proposed a strong central government, written by James Madison

Virginia Plan

created as US expanded to the Pacific, to provide an orderly method for admitting new states to the Union

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense.... do ordain and establish...." *WHAT YEAR WAS IT WRITTEN?*

Constitution, 1787

Said, "No order exists in a state of nature, and therefore people need to surrender some of their power to form a government."

Thomas Hobbes

plan for new government that said that every state should have the same representation, regardless of population

New Jersey Plan

plan for new government that combined the two proposals, and came up with a bicameral legislation.

The Great Compromise (The Connecticut Plan)

compromise that allowed states to count a certain number of their slaves as representation

3/5 Compromise

written in 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution... Written by whom?

Bill of Rights; Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

expanded the nation westward of the Mississippi River; doubled the size of the US; What year?

Louisiana Purchase; 1803

Purpose of Lewis and Clark Expedition?

To find a water route to the Pacific Ocean

created judicial review; what year?

Marbury v Madison; 1803

created to keep the number of slave states and free states equal;made Missouri a slave state and Main a free state (1820)

Missouri Compromise

· repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by letting the states choose whether or not to allow slavery (1854)

Kansas Nebraska Act

stated that no European power should interfere with the growth of America and colonizations within the Western Hemisphere (1823)

Monroe Doctrine

attempt to resolve longstanding issues of slavery; admitted California as a free state, settled a dispute between Texas and Mexico, and fugitive slave act was passed

Compromise of 1850

Supreme Court ruling that slaves were not citizens of US and could not expect protection from the government (1857)

Dred-Scott v Sanford

"All slaves shall be then henceforward, and forever free." / Only applied to states that had succeeded from the Union. Didn't end slavery but it changed the character of the Civil War. (1863)

Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." (1863) / dedication of cemetery to Union soldiers that had died in the war.

Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln

Supreme Court ruling that declared that separate but equal was constitutional. (1896)

Plessy v Ferguson

Provide military and economic aid to any country threatened by communism or any totalitarian ideology (1947)

Truman Doctrine

Economic recovery Act that provided aid to Western Europe after the devastation of WW2

Marshall Plan

Overturned the "Plessy vs Ferguson" case that said cannot separate children in public schools based on their race

Brown v Board of Education

Known as the "Seven Year War" between France and Great Britain. Indians sided with the French. They were fighting the British for control of North America.

French and Indian War

proposed by Benjamin Franklin; was the idea to create a unified government uniting all thirteen colonies and providing for their mutual defense during French and Indian War

Albany Plan of the Union

ended the French and Indian war and gave English control of Canada and the French areas east of the Mississippi River

Treaty of Paris

As a result of the Treaty of Paris, English forced the Americans to ______________________ which led to the ____________________

pay more taxes; American Revolution

The Treaty of Paris separated the British and French territories by the ____________________________.

Appalachian Mountains

This war was began because the British thought that the colonists should help pay for their own protection against the French. The British issued a series of tax laws following the French and Indian War to pay the debt incurred during the war.

Revolutionary War

During Revolutionary War, George Washington was the Commander of the ___________________________.

Continental Army

"Give me liberty or give me death" was a speech given by whom during which war?

Patrick Henry; Revolutionary War

first internal tax by the British to the American Colonists

Stamp Act of 1765

first major battle of Revolutionary War. Quote: "Don't shoot until you see the white in their eyes."

Battle of Bunker Hill

"shots heard 'round the world" signaled start of the Revolutionary War

Fort Sumter

a secret organization of American colonists created to protect the rights of the colonists and to resist British government policies deemed unfair; Who was their leader?

Sons of Liberty; Sam Adams

Sons of Liberty were responsible for what "riot" where they dumped tea into the Boston harbor

Boston Tea Party

First battles of the Revolutionary War; Famous quote "The British are coming" was said by whom?

Battles of Lexington and Concord; Paul Revere

What was considered the great turning point of the Revolutionary War?

Battle of Saratoga

Last battle of the Revolutionary War

Battle of Yorktown

What ended the Revolutionary War?

Treaty of Paris

War that began because British Royal Navy was kidnapping American Sailors and forcing them to fight for Britain

War of 1812

During what war was the Star Spangled Banner written? And by whom, and where?

War of 1812; Francis Scott Key; Fort McHenry

What ended the War of 1812? What was the result?

Treaty of Ghent; all conquered territory must be returned

War that began over a border dispute of whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican Claim) of the Rio Grande (U.S. claim)

Mexican-American War

Who was president during Mexican-American War?

James K Polk

The Gold Rush was in what state? What were those who migrated there known as?

California; 49ers

Civil War was fought between ___________ and ______________ over __________________.

North; South; slavery

The benefits of the ____________ in the Civil War was better generals and most of the fighting was done on their home turf.

South

During the Civil War, the general of the Southern Confederate Army was ________________________. General of the Northern Union Army was ______________________.

Robert E. Lee; Ulysses S. Grant

Benefits of the ___________ during the Civil War was better railroads and more ammunition

North

Issued by Lincoln after union victory at battle of Antietam which declared all slaves that had seceded from the Union free.

Emancipation Proclamation

the turning point in the war because it prevented Confederacy's invasion of the North; greatest number of deaths occured here also.

Gettysburg

What marked the end of the Civil War?

Battle of Appomattox Courthouse

Who won the Civil War?

Union

US got involved in this war after the sinking of the U.S.S Maine in Cuba. This ended Spanish colonial rule in America

Spanish-American War

Who was president during the Spanish-American War?

William McKinley

War began primarily due to Began the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

World War I

Who were the Central Powers in WWI?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

Who were the Allied Powers in WWI?

Britain, France, Russia, Italy, United States

2 reasons for US entering WWI?

Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare on civilian ships

The Zimmerman telegram sent by the German government to the Mexican government proposing a military alliance should America enter the war

Called "the war to end all wars"

World War I

The Treaty of ________________ was known as the "Unhappy Compromise" because _______________ had to admit guilt in the war so they had to pay reparations to Britain and France for what they had lost during the war, which put a strain on their economy, thus causing _____________________ to uprise

Versailles; Germany; Nazi, Germany

Who won World War 1?

Allied Powers

The main cause of the Great Depression was

stock market crash, 1929

Program created by Franklin D. Roosevelt that funded public works projects in order to provide jobs for unemployed Americans during the Great Depression

New Deal

US entered this war because of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

World War 2

World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?

Poland

a successful US foreign policy during the 1930s in FDR's presidency in which the president promised to improve US ties and relations with Latin America to ensure non-hostile neighbors south of its border; This Secured Latin America's cooperation in WW2 by maintaining the flow of oil, petroleum and other raw materials

Neighbor Policy

provided political, economic and financial assistance to Greece and Turkey after WW2, who were threatened by communism

Truman Doctrine