Unit 2 Review; Constitution and Jefferson

Shays's Rebellion

Anti-tax protest by farmers

amendments

Clauses added to the Constitution to address specific issues

Louisiana Purchase

Land bought from France in 1803, doubling the size of the country

cabinet

Official advisers appointed by a chief executive to head the executive departments of the government

enumerated powers

Particular powers of the Congress that are listed in Article 1 are often called the ___________________ of the federal government

anti-federalists

People opposed to ratification of the new Constitution and wanted a weaker central government

Framers

Persons who wrote the U.S. Constitution

Democratic-Republican

Political party led by Thomas Jefferson

War of 1812

Resulted in: • The anti-war Federalist Party died out. • Americans began to develop their own industries. • It showed that the United States was truly independent.

Pompy

Sacajawea's baby's nickname

suffrage

Several Amendments expanded ___________________, or the right to vote

federalists

Supporters of the new Constitution and wanted a strong central government

House of Representatives

The "lower" house of Congress whose membership is based on population

The Constitution

The "supreme law of the land"

Senate

The "upper" house of Congress whose members are elected to six-year terms

succession

The Constitution describes ___________________, or who assumes the power of the presidency if the president dies in office

preamble

The Constitution's opening statement, which explains its purpose

double jeopardy

The Fifth Amendment protects citizens against ___________________, or being tried twice for the same crime.

legislative

The House of Representatives and the Senate comprise the __________ branch of government.

poll tax

The Twenty-fourth Amendment makes it illegal to deny any citizen the right to vote based on

judicial power

The authority to decide cases involving disputes over law and behavior of people

eighteen-year olds

The last group to whom the Constitution granted the right to vote

vice president

The person who serves as the president of the Senate is also

electoral college

The system used for electing the president of the United States

incriminate

To cause to appear guilty of a crime

judicial review

____________ is the implied power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.

due process of law

___________________, ensured by the Fifth Amendment, protects the rights of citizens accused of a crime

war hawks

a group of politicians in the South and West, demanded war to stop British aid to the Native Americans and gain more land

executive

branch headed by the U.S. president

Bill of Rights

first ten amendments, protects the basic civil liberties of American citizens

Treaty of Ghent

negotiated in the winter of 1814, signaling the end of the war.

veto

presidential rejection of a bill

checks and balances

prevention of any one federal branch from dominating the other two

The Great Compromise

proposed that a state's representation in the House of Representatives would be determined by the size of the state's population.

elastic clause

provision giving Congress implied powers r to do whatever is "necessary and proper" to govern

impressment

seizing of American sailors and forced them to serve in the British navy

Sacajawea

served as a guide to the expedition led by Lewis and Clark

Whiskey Rebellion

sparked by an excise tax on the manufacture of whiskey

ratification

the act of officially adopting

impeach

to accuse an official of wrongdoing