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An agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony. -
The earliest agreement having many fundamental components of a constitution was the Pilgrim Code of Law. -
Britain and France wanted to rule North America and the American Indians wanted to maintain the control of their land and culture. -
Act of Parliament creates a new law or changes an existing law -
A meeting of delegates from nine American colonies who met to discuss the rights of the colonists regarding British taxation such as the Stamp Act -
A strike against the British government by the American Colonists. -
Delegates from 12 of the Britain's 13 American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
The Continental Congress made paper money called, "continentals." -
During the year of 1775, the American Revolution started because of the Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act, Mercantilism, and the lack of representation in the Parliament. -
13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. -
Thomas Paine wrote the 47-page document "Common Sense" to urge the people of the Thirteen colonies to depart from Great Britain. -
A document outlining the responsibilities of the US national government following its declaration of independence from Great Britain. -
When the government passed high taxes on their land that led to the farmers strike outside of the courthouse. -
The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States. -
Chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, defend the rights and liberties of American citizens. -
Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments. -
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. -
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy. -
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. -
No quartering of soldiers. -
Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial. -
Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia. -
Right of trial by jury in civil cases. -
Powers reserved to the states. -
Rights retained by the People -
A political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. -
The first test of federal authority in the United States. -
Prohibits the federal courts from hearing certain lawsuits against states. -
Condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void. -
Instead of casting two votes for President, each elector must pick a President AND a Vice President on his or her ballot -
Due to widespread dissatisfaction about British support for Native Americans, who were also their allies, and the British violations of the American rights on sea. -
Texas was annexed by the U.S. and Mexico disputed the border. -
It began when the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, came under attack from the Confederates. Also because the north was anti-slavery and Lincoln, who was anti-slavery as well, was elected president, the south, which supported slavery, seceded and established a new country. -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws” -
Right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
Gave people the right to vote for their senators instead of the state legislature. -
The homicide of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the primary cause of World War I. -
This amendment made it illegal to sell or manufacture alcoholic drinks. -
granted women the right to vote. -
It repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, making the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks legal again. -
Changed the date that the president, vice president, and members of Congress start to January, and it says who becomes president if the president cannot start serving immediately. -
Britain and France declared war on Germany as a result of the Nazi invasion of Poland. -
During the Cold War, the United States used a containment strategy to stop the spread of communism. -
A coordinated general attack by the Northern Korean Army entered South Korea at numerous key locations along the 38th parallel. -
Sets a term limit for the President, who can serve no more than two full terms in that office. -
Extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state. -
Prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election. -
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. -
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
Prevents members of Congress from granting themselves pay raises during the current session.