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| Trade that stared in Europe then went to Africa, then to Asia, and to the Americas |
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he believed in natural rights these rights would be given to citizens and they would belong to them at brith - Life,liberty,property
- he had the right to overthrow
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developed as a representative democracy in which elected officials served as the voice of their regions within the same state |
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| Ben Franklin's Albany Plan of Union in 1754 was the earliest attempt at organizing the 13 colonies against the French |
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| Britain's efforts to raise money enraged the colonists |
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| Slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a person |
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| Nearly all of the delegates could agree on the need for a president, to serve as a central figure and executive of the new nation. The disagreement arose over the power and service of such an office. Some delegates, fearing the rise of king-like president advocated for a weak official, who would be limited to a single one-year term. Others argued the need for a powerful figure who would be elected, but serve for life. Debates also raged about how best to elect the president and what role the people of the nation should serve in his selection. |
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| The division of power of power between the states and the federal, or national, government |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| was made in (1781-1789) this served as the foundation for this first attemptat a national government and while a failure, it was the lessons learned under the articles that helped strengthen the government formed by the Constitution |
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| they wanted to protect the rights and liberities of the people and they felt a bill of rights was needed in the Constitution. the framers of the Constitution wanted equal repsresntation for all the states.they came up with the House of Representatives and the Senate |
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Enforces or impliments laws - Commader-in-chief
- chief of state
- pardons
- appoints federal judges
- veto- to refuse
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| Had a strong national government with three seperate branches, with each having clearly defined power |
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| a policy of careful government regulation regulation of the economy in an effort to fill a nation's treasury with gold and silver |
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- social contract
- political authority lies with the people
- "CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED"
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This compact was the earliest example, in which the Piligrims consented to be governed and to abide by the decisions of their government |
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| ignoring of the colonies for their own health,during which they developed forms of self-rule. |
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| A pennsylivania newspaper attacked Britian's newest attempt to raise the revenue |
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2 Senators; Represenatives based on popualtion |
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| Beginning of the Declaration of Independence |
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| Division of power among government branches |
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| The authority to amend the Constitution of the United Statesby the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. |
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Interprets the laws - judiacl review- are laws constiutional?
- Marbury vs. Madison
- A. court can override Congress, president, states
- 9 supreme court justices
- Lifetime terms
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Was a one house legislature (unicameral) Equal representation in Congress Supportedby smaller states who feared losing power in federal the federal government |
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(1215) "Great Charter" - limited the power of the king
- right to a fair trail
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| 1689–1755, French philosophical writer. |
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| New England town meetings |
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| the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763. |
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| passed in 1765 it required colonists to provide royal troops with housing and supplies |
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| tells the state and federal government what they can and can't do |
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| the system set up by the Cnstitution in which the branches of government can limit each other's power |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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- drated by Thomas Jefferson
- Preamble contains the ideas of John Locke
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makes the laws - Congress( House of Represntatives and a Senate)
- Federalism
- Concurrent powers-state and federal
- Delegated powers are national only
- Implied powers-"Elastice Clause" meeting changing needs
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| Stretching government to meet changing needs |
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Hamilton and Jay - showed support of Constitution
- "unwritten constitution" exists by precedent setting
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| making offical by law or decisions |
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| the power of the Supreme Court and other courts to declare a law or action unconstitutional |
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| a treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the U.S. purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| strict versus loose consturction of the Constiution which means does Congress have the power to establish a bank. Some thought it was uncontstiutuional,but Lincoln signed the bill Feburary 25, 1791 |
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- support Constitution
- state constitution protect personal liberities
- states retain power
- checks and balances
- educated businessmen
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| a policy of not taking sides in a conflict |
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| this tried to resolve conflicts over the expansion of slavery in the West by proposing this compromise also the was a temporary solution to a struggle for power between Northerners and Southerners on the slavery issue |
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| President Monroe made a statement to Congress on a foreign policy |
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| The movement to abolish slavery, or abolition, has existed nearly as long. In the late 1700s, northern states became less dependent on slavery for labor, and the southern states became more so. As the division between the North and South depended around this issue, abolitionists became more radical. |
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the supreme court case had to deal with mainly judical review |
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devotion to the interests of one section of a country over those of other sections |
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| a group of advisors to the President, including the secretaries of the federal executive departments and other presidential appointes |
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| Are people that argeed with Jefferson |
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- The Alien Act, operative for two years only, gave the president the power to expel or imprison aliens in time of war
- The Sedition Act proscribed writing, speaking, or publishing anything of "a false, scandalous,and malicious" nature against teh president or Congress
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| a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden. |
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| Native Americams who lived east of the Mississippi to move to new "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi |
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| In 1852 Harry Beecher Stowe published this dramatic novel showing the plight of plantation slaves and attacking the moral evil of slavery |
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| a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government. |
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The years following* the end of the War of 1812 have been called the “era of good feelings” because of their apparent lack of partisan political strife. In the Election of 1816, James Monroe decisively defeated the last of the Federalist candidates. Monroe was overwhelmingly reelected in the Election of 1820 with no opposition whatsoever. |
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Banks-denied right to tax federal institution |
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| Jefferson tried to trade put and end to the war by cutting off foreign trade with the Embargo Act of 1807, but the Act hurt only the American economy |
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| this law was called for the territory to be divided into no fewer than three and no more than five areas |
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| In 1854, Congress decided to extend popular sovereignty to the unsettled areas of the Louisiana Purchase, now know as the Kansas and Nebraska territories. This act led to violence and a pre-cursor to the Civil War as pro-abolition and pro-slavery forces flooded Kansas to sway the vote, in what became known as Bloody Kansas. |
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| This practice of appointing loyal supporters to government postions from the expression " to the victors belong to the spoils |
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