APGovCh.2.Juan.Jaimes Flashcards
Alexander Hamilton
United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank
Anti-Federalist
Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
Article I
Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress its powers and limits. Congress is the legislative branch of the government, meaning they are the ones to make laws for the United States of America
Article II
Article II of the Constitution sets forth the definition and terms of the Executive Branch of Government in the United States of America
Article III
Article 3 of the United States Constitution is the section that creates the judicial branch in the United States. The Judicial branch is the system of courts that look at the law and applies it to different cases.
Article IV
e Meaning. Article IV, Section 1 ensures that states respect and honor the state laws and court orders of other states, even when their own laws are different.
Article V
Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation’s frame of government, may be altered. Altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification
Article VI
Article Six of the United States Constitution establishes the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land, forbids a religious test as a requirement for holding a governmental position and holds the United States under the Constitution responsible for debts
Articles of Confederation
The compact between the thirteen original colonies that created a loose league of friendship, with the national government drawing its powers from the state.
Benjamin Franklin
A brilliant inventor and senior statesman at the Constitutional Convention who urged colonial unity as early as 1754 twenty-two years before the declaration of independence.
French and Indian war
The american phase of what was called the Seven Years War, fought from 1754 to 1763 between France and Britain with Indian allies.
Mercantalism
An economic theory designed to increase a nation’s wealth trough the commercial industry and favorable balance of trade.
New World
The western hemisphere of earth, also called the Americas, which was unknown to the Europeans before 1492.
Samuel Adams
Cousin of president John Adams and an early leader against the British and loyalist oppressors: he played a key role in developing the Committees of Correspondents and was active in Massachusetts and colonial politics.
Stamp Act Congress
A gathering of nine colonial representatives in 1765 in New York City where a detailed list of Crown violations was drafted; first official meeting of the colonies and the first official step towards creating a unified nation.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Loosely organized groups of patriotic American colonist who were early revolutionaries.
Crispus Attucks
An African American and first american to die in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
First Continental Congress
Meeting held in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26., 1774, in which fifty-six delagates adopted a resolution in opposition to the Coercive Acts.
Lexington and Concord
The first sites of armed conflict between revolutionaries and British soldiers, remembered for the “shots heard round the world” in 1775.
Second Continental Congress
Meeting that convened in Philadelphia on May 10 1775, at which it was decided that an army should be raised and George Washington of Virginia was named commander in chief.
