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- Legislative
- makes laws
- 13th-15th Amendments
- Civil War Amendments dealt with slavery
- Chief Justice of Us
- Roberts
- impeach
- charges of serious wrong doings, indicted by House of Reps.
- Executive
- enforces laws
- Compromise of 1850
- California is free, Fugitive Slave Act passed
- veto
- Presidental power to strike down a law passed by Congress
- Thomas Stonewall Jackson
- Southern general, fearless in face of battle
- Anti-Federalists
- wanted a government that gave more rights to the states,and feared a strong government become a tyranny
- Alexander Hamiltion
- Federalist, wanted strong central government
- strike
- work stoppage
- The Potato Famine
- sent many Irish to America
- suffrage
- right to vote
- Emancipation Proclamation
- statement issued by Lincoln during war, which ended slavery in South
- Battle of Bull Run
- 1st major battle, proved war was going to be long & coslty
- general welfare
- well being of all citizens
- Battle of Bicksburg
- Grant victory in Deep South, separated Confederacy
- Great Compromise
- Roger Sherman, created Bicameral Legislative branch
- checks & balances
- system set up so that branch has an equal share of the power in the government
- Stephen Douglass
- Illinois Senator, debated Lincoln, Democrat, popular sovereignty, Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Battle of Antietam
- Bloodiest day in US history, Maryland led to Emancipation Proclamation
- abolition
- political movement to eradicate the system of slavery
- Gettysburg Affress
- speech by Lincoln which stated the moral of the war was to make sure that democratic government survived
- republic
- A government where the people elect representatives to rule for them
- Battle of Fort Sumter
- South Carolina, site of 1st battle of Civil War
- James Madison
- Father of Constitution
- 5th-8th Amendments
- Protects those accused of a crime, no double jeopardy, due process,
- American Dream
- equal opportunity for success & prosperity
- Special Interest Groups
- people who try to raise support for one political cause
- secretart of the treasure
- economic policy
- Robert E. Lee
- southern commanding general, Virginian, smart tactician
- underground railroad
- escape route of slaves
- telegraph
- Morse, faster communication
- Secretary of State
- foreign diplomacy
- naturalization
- process of becoming a citizen
- US Senate
- 6 year term, 2 per state, led by President Pro Tempore
- compromise
- an agreement where both sides give something up
- Dred Scot v. Sanford
- Supreme Court Case that said slave had no rights
- The Preamble
- opening statement of the Constitution. " We the People"
- cottoncracy
- elite ruling class of the Southern Cotton Kingdom
- US Secretary of State
- Rice
- Cabinet
- 15 members, appointed by President, oversee an area of importance
- US house of reps
- 2 year term, membership based on population
- Confederate States of America
- name of the nation established by the Southern States after secession
- dictatorship
- a governemnt ruled by one central authority that only serves the needs of the ruler
- locomotive
- steam engine, faster transportation
- Missouri Compromise
- draws a line between free and slave states, Missouri becomes a slave states
- immigrant
- someone who move to a nation from another
- Bill of Rights
- First 10 amendments
- Appomattox Court House
- site of Lee's surrender to Grant
- override
- power of Congress to strike down a veto
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Pennsylvania, turning point of war, over 50000 dead
- capitalism
- economic system, private ownership, competitive market
- Supreme Court Justices
- 8 associates, 1 chief, serve for life
- Patrick Henry
- Anti Federalist, wanted to limit power of central government
- Vice President
- Cheney
- 2nd Amendment
- right to bear arms
- The Enlightenment
- era of european history when philsophers wanted to apply logic to government, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire
- Attorney General
- Alberto Gonzales
- Virginia Plan
- Large States
- US president
- 4 year term, limited to two terms, elected by the electoral college
- William LLoyd Garrison
- abolitionist published the Liberator
- Harper's Ferry
- site of John Brown's raid & failed slave revolt
- Three Fifths Comrpomise
- agreement northern & southern states, slaves counted as a fraction of a person
- democracy
- a government ruled by the people directly
- Frederick Douglasss
- escaped slavery & wrote autobiography
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Union general, led march through Georgia, destroyed everything in path
- E Pluribus Unum
- motto, out of many one
- George Mclellan
- Union general, 1st commander, overly cautious, fired by Lincoln
- John Brown
- abolitionist who led forces in Bleeding Kansas
- Bleeding Kansas
- mini civil war over voting on the issue of slavery
- Senators of NJ
- Menendez & Lautenberg
- cotton gin
- Whitney, processed cotton faster,increased demand for slavery
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anti Slavery novel
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Union general, unconditional surrender, accepts Lee's surrender
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Overwhelming Southern victory in Virginia
- Federal Agencies
- Organizations that deal with a specific area of interest for the federal govt.
- Judicial
- interpret laws, US Supreme court
- justice
- upholding laws fairly
- Roman Influence
- 1st republic, senate, warning of failure of republic into dictatorship
- British influence
- magna carta, bill of rights, bicameral legislative branch with control over king
- Abraham Lincoln
- Republican, 16th President, led during the Civil War
- judicial review
- power of the supreme court can declare an law or act of Congress to be unconstitutional
- the Cabinet
- group of advisors to the President
- Greek Influence
- 1st democracy, golden age, athens, socrates
- Congressman representing NJ-9
- Rothman
- Mayor of Moonachie
- Fred Dressel
- !st Amendment
- freedom of religion,speech,press,petition & protest
- Jefferson Davis
- 1st , last & the only President of the Confederate States of America
- Republican Party
- Lincoln, against expansion of slavery
- secretary of defense
- armed forces
- Nat Turner
- African American, led a slave revolt, caused Slave codes
- Harriet Tubman
- Black Moses, conductor on underground railroad
- nativist
- people who irrationally fear immigrants
- slave codes
- laws that governed the conduct of slaves
- Limited government
- federal government is entitled only powers of Constitution
- NJ Plan
- small states
- Fugitive Slave Act
- forced Notherners to return escaped slaves
- federalists
- wanted a Constitution that has a strong central government
- bill
- proposal for a law
- Governor of NJ
- Corzine
- President
- Bush
- total war
- strategy used by Uniton
- U.S. Constitution
- the framework of the U.S
- domestic tranquility
- peace & order at home
- secede
- to leave a union or organization
- Popular sovereignty
- the belief that the people have the right to alter or abolish their own government