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America's First Constitution and the Constitutional Convention

Learn about the Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention, which resulted in the United States Constitution.

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America's First Constitution and the Constitutional Convention

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  1. Constitution A New Nation Reformers Manifest Destiny Causes of the Civil War 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt

  2. America's first constitution that had a central government with limited powers • (A constitution is a written plan of government)

  3. What is The Articles of Confederation?

  4. Meeting of delegates from every state, except Rhode Island, to amend (change) the Articles of Confederation. • In Philadelphia, Pa. • No women, African-Americans, Native-Americans, poor farmers represented. • The Convention ended up replacing the Articles with the United States Constitution.

  5. What is the Constitutional Convention?

  6. Compromise on SlaveryThree-fifths of a state’s slaves would be counted as part of that states population.Congress could not end slave trade for 20 yearsThe tax on imported slaves could not exceed $10 a person

  7. What is The 3/5 Compromise??

  8. Part of the government responsible for applying laws in specific cases and determining if laws are constitutional • Interpret the law • Made up by the Supreme Court and lower federal courts

  9. Who are the Judicial Branch?

  10. Written list of personal liberties expressed as actions that a government may not take away • The First 10 Amendments of the United States Constitution

  11. What is the Bill of Rights?

  12. An example or model of official behavior or policy

  13. What is precedent?

  14. three French agents attempted to obtain a bribe from American representatives in Paris“Millions for defense, sir, but not one cent for tribute”“No, no, not a sixpence.”

  15. What is the X, Y, Z Affair?

  16. Began in Great Britain and spread to the United States in the early 1800’s • Change from farming to industry; hand-made to machine made • Faster, easier • New England Region

  17. What is the Industrial Revolution?

  18. Invented by Eli Whitney 1793 Increased to speed of the cotton cleaning process. Made growing cotton more profitable Caused an increase in slave labor because plantations began to grow more cotton.

  19. What is the Cotton Gin?

  20. Supreme Court Case that reinforced the principle of Judicial Review (The Supreme Court’s power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional)

  21. What is Marbury v. Madison?

  22. Women’s Rights Convention that established a list of grievances that became known as the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

  23. What is Seneca Falls Convention?

  24. An educated slave who escaped his master and became a famous speaker and abolitionist.

  25. Who is Frederick Douglass?

  26. Secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom. A network of safe houses owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery.

  27. What is the Underground Railroad?

  28. Perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors.“ During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger.“ Known as The Moses of Her People

  29. Who was Harriet Tubman?

  30. An individual trying to end slavery

  31. Who are abolitionists?

  32. Direction of settling during Manifest Destiny

  33. What Is WEST?

  34. Name three types of people in the picture: American Progress, by John Gast

  35. Who are (list any 3): Native Americans Farmers Miners Speculators Pioneers

  36. Land we bought it 1803 to gain control of the Mississippi River ( it doubled the size of the United States)

  37. What is the Louisiana territory?

  38. A law that forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move to lands in the west

  39. What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

  40. Name of the forced march of Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory; thousands died

  41. What is the Trail of Tears?

  42. The placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the nation as a whole

  43. What is Sectionalism?

  44. Many people in the South felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts.

  45. What are states rights?

  46. As a result of HIS 1860 election. Southern states called for succession from the Union. Who?

  47. Who is Abraham Lincoln?

  48. Political doctrine that allowed a territory to decide if they wanted slavery by popular vote

  49. What is popular sovereignty?

  50. This poster served as a warning for African Americans as a result of this law

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