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A government where one person represents the people -
Moved from the rule of man to rule of law
Outlined individual rights which king could not violate
Included taxation and trial provisions -
the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies -
Required monarchs to obtain Parliamentary approval before new taxes -
Guaranteed free speech and protection from cruel and unusual punishment
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Intellectual movement in 18th century Europe
Classical liberal concerns addressed in Enlightenment
Framers of the U.S. Constitution believed in people’s natural rights to life, liberty, and property. -
First direct tax on paper goods and legal documents
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British soldiers killed protesters
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Revolutionaries dumped British Tea into the harbor
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Colonists were forced to “Quarter,” or house, British troops
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likely drawn from Virginia Declaration of Rights and inspired by John Locke
Blamed the King for a variety of issues in the Colonies
Signed by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress on August 2, 1776. -
First National Government
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First National Government
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Drafting a New Constitution
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Massachusetts farmers rebelled over the prospect of losing land
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that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives -
Established a plan for settling the Northwest Territory
Included disputed lands
Created system for admitting states to the Union
Banned slavery in the territory
Guided nation’s western expansion -
First 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
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Whigs countered with National Gazette -
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. .. -
Maryland taxed the national bank
Court ruled bank was necessary and proper -
Right of a state legislature to award a monopoly to operate a steamship line between NY and NJ
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Democratic-Republican party split into today’s two major parties—Democrats, Republicans
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Began to expand the power of the Supreme Court -
Let people argue forever when a bill was on the floor
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lave who sued for his and his family's freedom after being taken to a free state
Court said that Scott, as an African-American and previously property, was not a citizen
Gave him no legal standing to sue -
Granted large tracts of land to states; states sold land and used money for colleges -
War between the north and south -
Passed because of assassination of President James Garfield
Man was upset about not being appointed Postmaster -
The Sherman Antitrust Act prevented monopolies -
Ruled segregation was legal as long as the facilities were equal
“Separate but equal” doctrine -
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. -
Direct election of Senators
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gave Congress authority to set a federal income tax
Main source of US income -
Led to economic boom is the 1920's -
became the first form of electronic media -
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. Prohibitionists first attempted to end the trade in alcoholic drinks during the 19th century. -
N. Americans granted citizenship -
Biggest economic depression in US history
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Both state and national governments were equal authorities operating within their own spheres of influence -
The Social Security Act of 1935 is a law enacted by the 74th United States Congress and signed into law by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of Roosevelt's New Deal domestic program. -
The second world war helped revived the US economy
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Upheld Fair Labor Standards Act; Commerce Clause allows Congress to regulate employment conditions -
Upheld involuntary internment of ethnically Japanese American citizens -
The Central Intelligence Agency, known informally as the Agency and the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, -
Protects health of people
FDA sets safety standards for food, food additives, and medicinal drugs
Federal provider of social services
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
Helps prevent disease outbreaks
Ex. flu, bioterrorism -
The court saw Roosevelt's economic legislation as an assault on property rights
Ruled that some New Deal programs violated the Constitution -
Desegregated school -
Research space and went to the moon -
States and national governments worked together to deal with the Great Depression
Many cases about FDR's New Deal reached the Supreme Court. -
Expanded rights of people accused of crimes -
Struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage -
Civil rights leader killed -
Schools couldn’t prevent students from protesting the Vietnam War -
A government ran a postal service that delivers mail all around the nation -
Government program to eliminate poverty and social inequality
Johnson created creative federalism, which released national funds to achieve national goals. -
Returned some authority to state governments
Began in 1980s
Ronald Reagan believed state governments could better provide services to the people
Cut national grant money and relaxed national requirements -
System of spending, taxing, and providing aid in the federal system -
terrorist attacked the twin towers -
Transportation Security Administration -
A government agency was created to help ensure national security and stop terrorism. -
Customs and Border Protection