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Abraham Lincoln

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Sixteenth president of the United States, the first elected Republican president, who served from 1861-1865. Lincoln, who led the Union during the Civil War, was assassinated in 1865 by a Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth.

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Andrew Johnson

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Seventeenth president of the United States, a Republican, who served from 1865 to 1869. Johnson had served as Abraham Lincoln’s vice president and became president after Lincoln’s assassination.

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Barack Obama

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The first African American president of the United States, a Democrat, who served as forty-fourth president from 2009 to 2017. Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008; member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

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Barron v. Baltimore

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Supreme Court ruling that, before the Civil War, limited the applicability of the Bill of Rights to the federal government and not to the states.

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Bill of attainder

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a law declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial.

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Block grant

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a large grant given to a state by the federal government with only general spending guidelines.

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Calvin Coolidge

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Thirtieth president of the United States a, a Republican, who served from 1923 to 1929.

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Categorical grants

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grant that appropriates federal funds to states for a specific purpose

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Charter

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a document that, like a constitution, specifies the basic policies, procedures, and institutions of local government. Must be approved by state legislatures.

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Civil War

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The military conflict from 1861 to 1865 in the United States between the Northern forces of the union and the southern forces of the Confederacy. Over 600,000 Americans lost their lives during this war.

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Concurrent powers

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powers share by the national and state governments.

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Confederate States of America

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The political system created by the eleven states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War, which ceased to exist upon the Union Victory.

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Confederation

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type of government in which the national government derives its powers from the states; a league of independent states

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Cooperative federalism

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the intertwined relationship between the national, state, and local governments that began with the New Deal, often referred to as marble cake federalism.

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Counties

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the basic administrative unit of local government.

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Democracy

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a system of government that gives power to the people, whether directly or through elected representatives.

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Dillon’s Rule

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a premise articulated by Judge John F. Dillon in 1868 which states that local governments do not have any inherent sovereignty and instead must be authorized by state governments that can create or abolish them.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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A Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and denied citizenship rights to enslaved African American. Dred Scott heightened tensions between the pro-slavery South and the abolitionist North in the run up to the Civil War.

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Dual federalism

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the belief that having separate and equally powerful levels of government is the best arrangement, often referred to as layer-cake federalism.

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Enumerated powers

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the powers of the national government specifically granted to Congress in Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.

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Ex post facto law

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law that makes an act punishable as a crime even if the action was legal at the time it was committed.

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Extradition clause

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Part of Article IV of the Constitution that requires states to extradite, or return, criminals to states where they have been convicted or are to stand trial

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Federal system

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system of government in which the national government and state governments share power and derive all authority from the people.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Thirty-second president, a Democrat, who served from 1933 to 1945. FDR’s leadership took the United States through the Great Depression and World War 2.

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Full faith and credit clause

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section of Article IV of the Constitution that ensures judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in any other state.

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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The Supreme Court upheld broad congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. The Court’s broad interpretation of the Constitution’s commerce clause paved the way for later rulings upholding expansive federal powers

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Great Society

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Reform program begun in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson that was a broad attempt to combat poverty and discrimination through urban renewal, education reform, and unemployment relief.

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Herbert Hoover

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Thirty-first president of the United States, a Republican, who served from 1929 to 1933 during the Start of the Great Depression.

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Implied powers

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The powers of the national government derived from the enumerated powers and the necessary and proper clause.

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Interstate compacts

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contracts between states that carry the force of law; generally now used as a tool to address multistate policy concerns.

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Iroquois Confederacy

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a political alliance of American Indian tribes established in the seventeenth century that featured aspects of the federal system of government adapted by the Framers

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John C. Calhoun

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a politician and political theorist from South Carolina who supported slavery and states’ rights in the pre-Civil War era and served as vice president from 1825 to 1832

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John Marshall

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The longest-serving Supreme Court Chief Justice, Marshall served from 1801 to 1835. Marshall’s decision in Marbury v. Madison established the principle of judicial review in the United States.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Thirty-sixth president of the United States, a Democrat, who served from 1964 to 1969.

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McCulloh v. Maryland

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The Supreme Court upheld the power of the national government and denied the right of a state to tax the federal bank, using the Constitution’s supremacy clause. the Court’s broad interpretation of the necessary an proper clause paved the way for later rulings upholding expansive federal power.

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Monarchy

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a form of government in which power is vested in hereditary kings and queens who govern the entire society.

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Municipalities

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city governments created in response to the emergence of relatively densely populated areas.

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New Deal

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the name given to the program of “Relief, Recovery, Reform” begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the United States out of the Great Depression.

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New Federalism

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federal-state relationship proposed by Reagan administration during the 1980s; hallmark is returning administrative powers to the state governments.

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Nullification

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the belief in the right of a state to declare void a federal law.

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Oligarchy

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a form of government in which the right to participate depends on the possession of wealth, social status, military position, or achievement.

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Privileges and immunities clause

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part of Article IV of the Constitution guaranteeing that the citizens of each state are afforded the same rights as citizens of all other states.

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Programmatic requests

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Federal funds designated for special projects within a state or congressional district.

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Progressive federalism

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a pragmatic approach to federalism that views relations between national and state governments as both coercive and cooperative.

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Reconstruction

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The period from 1865-1877 after the Civil War, in which the U.S. militarily occupied and dominated the eleven former states of the confederacy.

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Reserved powers

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powers reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment that lie at the foundation of a state’s right to legislate for the public health and welfare of its citizens.

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Roger B. Taney

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Supreme Court Chief Justice who served from 1835-1864, Taney supported slavery and states’ rights in the pre-Civil War era.

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Ronald Reagan

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Fortieth president of the United States, a Republican, who served from 1981 to 1989. Reagan led the nation through the end of the Cold War and his leadership led to a national shift toward political conservatism.

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Secession

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A unilateral assertion of independence by a geographic region within a country. The eleven Southern states making up the Confederacy during the Civil War seceded from the United States.

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Seventeenth Amendment

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amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made senators directly elected by the people, removing their selection from state legislatures.

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Sixteenth Amendment

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amendment to the U.S Constitution that authorized Congress to enact a national income tax.

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Special district

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a local government that is restricted to a particular function

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Tenth amendment

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the final part of the Bill of Rights that defines the basic principle of American federalism in stating that the powers not delegated to the national government are reserved to the states or to the people

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Totalitarianism

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a form of government in which power resides in leaders who rule by force in their own self-interest and without regard to rights and liberties.

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Unitary system

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system of government in which the local and regional governments derive all authority from a strong national government.