Unit 1 11-21 Flashcards
Checks & Balances
Impeachment (legislative)
Veto (president)
Judicial review
Federalism
sharing of power between national & state gov’t
states and the gov’t work together
Tennis Court Oath
France
3rd estate were locked out of a meeting, so they went to a tennis count & promised to write a constitution
Storming of the Bastille
Protest
People rebelling against their gov’t
Declaration of the rights of man
Men have rule of law
Freedom of the press
Everyone pays taxes
French Revolution
Financial Crisis
- Causes (bad harvest, unfair voting rights, a slowdown in production or manufacturing, economic problem)
Results - equal opportunities, religious toleration, public education
US Constitution
“We the people…” Preamble inspired by Rousseau
- Supremacy clause
National gov’t is the supreme law of the land
American Revolutionary War
First shots at Lexington & Concord
- The American rev. inspired people everywhere to revolt against injustice & tyranny
Cause of the war - Americans didnt have representative in British Parliament
6th Amendment
Trial by jury of your peers
Estate
French social class what did the 3rd estate do when The first and second estate held a vote about law changes? - They declared themselves the national assembly
Politics
Who has the power and how they get it and do with it