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- all the members of the government MUST support the Consititution
- U S Constitution Article VI-what is this about?
- Tribal leaders
- Sagamore and Niantic Indians were
- Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
- Who wrote the Federalist papers?
- he opposed the expansion of slavery but not its existence
- Abraham Lincoln's public position on slavery in 1860 was
- it became a major economical and financial center
- How did the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 impact new York City?
- collective bargaining
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) proposes that the unions negotiate for all workers, this is called
- The Presidency/4 year term
- U S Constitution article II-what branch of government does it desrcibe & length of term?
- a bill of rights
- Most anti-Federalists changed from opponents to supporters of the Constitution after they were promised
- States Rights
- U S Constitution Article IV-what is this about?
- Transcontinental Railroad
- May 10, 1869 in Promontory, Utah the East and the West were connected by the completion of the
- Judiciary
- U S Constitution article III-what branch of government does it describe?
- natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, have lived continually in the U S for the last 14 years
- Describe the 3 requirement for a person to be eligible for election to the Presidency:
- eighteenth century (18th)
- The Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia occurred in which century?
- Oregon Trail
- in the 1850's the trail most taken by settlers was
- ratification of Constitution
- U S Constitution Article VII-what is this about?
- employers were prohibited from interfering in workers efforts to unionize
- What was one effect of the Wagner Act of 1935?
- Members of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President subject to the approval
- Who picks the Supreme court/how do they get the job?
- resulted in the Confederacy being split in half along the Mississippi River
- The Confederate defeat at Vicksburg was important because it
- The Supreme Court
- What is the nation's highest court?
- The Legislature/2 year term
- U S Constitution article I-what branch does it describe & length of their term?
- slavery should be abolished
- John Brown believed that
- Rhode Island
- Which of the following was one of the original thirteen colonies?
- Great Britian
- One result of the French & Indian War (1754-1763) was the dominance in North America was achieved by
- plantation agriculture expanded in the southern colonies
- What caused the increase in African Americans in colonial America in the 1700's?
- farmers
- The core membership of the Populist party in the 1890's consisted of
- trying to ratify the consitution
- What were the Federalist papers about?
- They generally serve for life terms.
- How Long does do the Supreme Court Judges serve?
- nine
- How many Supreme Court Judges are there?
- he got the government to settle upon: 2 "houses" of government, 1 with equal representatives and 1 with representatives based on population of the state
- The Great Compromise-How did Roger Sherman end this fight?
- building a powerful navy to aid United States diplomacy
- When Teddy(Theodore) Roosevelt said "speak softly and carry a big stick" he was trying to gain support for what?
- freedom of speech and freedom of the press
- The alien and sedition acts of 1798 served to restrict
- amendments to the Consitution
- U S Coinstitution Article V-what is this about?