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Amendments

What does the 26th Amendment do?

Give 18 year olds the vote.

What Amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th

What amendment abolished slavery?

13th

What did the 14th amendment do?

Citizenship for African-Americans

What else does the 14th Amendment do?

Privacy & due process rights for all Americans

What did the 16th amendment do?

Federal income tax

What does the 5th Amendment do?

Right to not incriminate yourself.

The 6th, 7th, & 8th amendments all deal with your rights when you are…

Arrested & tried for a crime

Why have there been more supreme court decisions about the 1st amendment than

any other amendment?

Freedom of speech, religion, & assembly.

What amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?

17th

The 3rd & 4th amendments were created based on British abuses concerning the

home. What were they?

Quartering of Troops & unreasonable searches of

homes.

What civil rights era amendment failed to be ratified by being short 3 states?

ERA.

What Amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote?

26th.

Political Parties

Feared the tyranny of the elite.

Democratic Republicans

Federalist or Democratic Republican?

Was split apart by the election of 1824 .



Founded by Alexander Hamilton

Federalist


Pro- British foreign policy

Federalist


Vision of the Future:Agrarian Democracy



What 3rd party was formed in the 1890’s to address the concerns of the farmers?

Populist Party

When the south stormed out of the Democratic convention in 1948, they chose Strom Thurmond to run as a…

Dixiecrat

In what election did John Bell represent the Constitutional Union party?

Election of 1860.

What party was created to oppose Andrew Jackson?

Whigs

Who was the first Republican president?

Abraham Lincoln

TR ran for a third term as president under the Progressive Party that was nicknamed

the…

Bull Moose Party

The No Nothing or American Party was against what two groups?

Immigrants & Catholics.

The Democratic Party considers two presidents as their founders, and

celebrates this at the _______ _______ dinner.

Jefferson Jackson

Elections

1796

Peaceful transfer of power from one person to another.

What is the significance of this election?

1800

Peaceful transfer of power from one political party to

another.


1824

Decided in House of Representatives.


1860

Lincoln’s Election caused the south to secede from the

union.


1876

Disputed electoral results in 4 states resulting a committee making a deal

where by the Republican Hayes became President & the army pulled out of the

south.


1932

FDR elected for 1st of 4 times: Democrats gain control of Presidency & Congress.


1968

Assassination of Robert Kennedy & violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago led to Nixon being elected.


1980

Reagan’s election brings the start of the Conservative

Revolution.


Laws (laws that are passed are called

Acts)

What law late in the 1940’s limited the power of Labor Unions?

Taft-Hartley Act

What two laws in the Gilded Age limited the power of monopolies?

Sherman & Clayton Anti-trust Acts

After Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled office seeker, Congress

passed this law to create the civil service.

Pendleton Act

This law outlawed segregation & discrimination in public places?

Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Jefferson sought to avoid war by stopping all U.S. European trade?

Embargo Act

Several times in American history, Congress has passed laws limiting

criticism of the government. This crime is called….

Sedition

Another name for a law is Ordinance. What did the 2 Land Ordinances passed during the Articles of Confederation do?

1785: Survey & Sale of Public Land1787: Method for a territory

to become a State

What colonial legislation by the British caused the colonists to organize their 1st

boycott? When was this?

Stamp Act, 1765

What book caused the passage of the Meat Act & Pure Food & Drug Act?

The Jungle

Laws are also bills. What 20th century bill revived the middle class after it’s collapse

during the Great Depression?

G.I. Bill

What method of transportation did the Interstate Commerce Act regulate?

Railroads

What law broke up Indian Reservations in order to assimilate Native Americans and

take away more land?

Dawes Act.

What law caused a mini Civil War in Kansas in the 1850’s?

Kansas Nebraska Act

The Volstead Act made it a crime to…

Sell Alcohol.

Catholics & Protestants could practice their religion in this colony because of this

law.

Maryland Toleration Act

The core of the New Deal was these 2 laws.

AAA & NRA.

The Keating-Owen Act regulated what kind of labor?

Child

In 1924, the National Origins Act allowed immigrants into the U.S. based on the’

______________ system

quota

What President passed Medicare & Medicaid?

LBJ

In 1862, the northern dominated Congress passed this law that resulted in rapid

settlement of the American West.

Homestead Act

Great Britain limited colonial trade in these laws that were the heart of

Mercantilism.

Navigation Acts

Movers & Shakers(People who changed our

government)

Lincoln said she started the Civil War.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

She led the fight against lynching during the Progressive Era.

Ida B. Wells Barnett

His 1831 uprising caused terror throughout the south.

Nat Turner

He convinced Lincoln to let African Americans serve in the Union Army.

Frederick Douglass

His newspaper The Liberator started the Abolitionist Movement.

William Lloyd Garrison

These two women led the Women’s Movement of the 1960’s.

Betty Friedan & Gloria Steniem

Give me liberty or give me Death!

Patrick Henry.

Thou shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Gold!

William Jennings Bryan

Started the SCLC in Montgomery, Alabama.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Led the final suffragette battles.

Alice Paul

Most wanted Revolutionary rebels in Massachusetts were these 2 men.

Sam Adams & John Hancock

This Great Compromiser kept the country together from 1820 to 1850.

Henry Clay

His 2 major inventions changed the economies of the north & the south.

Eli Whitney

In Kansas and Virginia he led violent rebellions against slavery?

John Brown

Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield started the…

Great Awakening

They spread Progressive reforms by the power of their words.

Muckrakers

He reshaped modern business structure as he sought to wipe out his competition.

John D. Rockfeller

His inventions revolutionized 20th century communication.

Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell

The music world was “all shook up” by this rock & roller who popularized black

music in the 50’s.

Elvis Presley

The Hatchet lady from Kansas who fought the evil of alcohol.

Carry Nation

Cold War paranoia grew after this couple were convicted of leaking nuclear secrets

to the Russians.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

These two Native American Leaders attempted to stop white expansion by

organizing the tribes of the northwest in 1763 and 1812

Pontiac & Tecumseh

His false charges fueled Cold War paranoia.

Joseph McCarthy

He build the canal with his Big Stick.

Teddy Roosevelt

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