Vocabulary Flashcards
What is power
Power is the ability to control or direct something or someone.
What is authority
Authority is power combined with the right to use that power.
What is customs
Traditions
What is principles of mortality
Basic ideas about right and wrong
Lexington/concord
The two places where there was a fight between the rebels and the British soldiers, and that’s what started the Revolutionary War.
Boycott
To refuse to buy.
Boston massacre
The clash in 1770 between British troops and a group of Bostonians in which 5 colonists were killed.
King george III
King George was the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He passed many harsh and unfair laws taking away the rights of the colonists that eventually led to the Revolution.
H
A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments
J
Rights of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press.
D
Right to possess arms.
W
Quartering of soldiers prohibited during peacetime. Quartering only with the owners permission.
D
Freedom from seizure of property, arrests and searches without a specific warrant. People use this in court to not incriminate themselves on the witness stand.
C
Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy
V
Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury
F
Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.
F
Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.
X
Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.
B
Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
D
The plan ratified by the states in 1781, that established a national congress with limited power. It was replaced with the Constitution
U
The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.
A
a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
U
a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
O
A person who favored the plan of government created by the Constitution.
mOn
A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution
N
The branch of the government that makes laws.
R
The branch of government that interprets laws and punishes lawbreakers.
K
The branch of government that enforces laws
j
The land between civilization and wilderness
T
The land north of the Ohio River & was created into 5 states
C
To measure land to determine the exact boundaries of a given area. Used for townships
J
The 1787 law that set forth a plan of government for the townships 36 sq miles at one dollar an acre in the Northwest Territory. Created by Thomas Jefferson. The law banned slavery, gave freedom of religion and trial by jury. 60,000 citizens in territory to apply for statehood.
E
For the country to thrive its citizens need certain virtues. These include a sense of equality, simplicity, and to sacrifice for the public good.
G
The United States’ purchase from France (Napoleon) in 1803 of land west of the Mississippi. Jefferson purchased all 800,000 square miles for $15 million
D
The expeditions from 1804-1806 that explored the Louisiana Territory.
Rendezvous
25)Rendezvous- A meeting or get together agreed on in advance with mountain men in the early 1800’s to support the fur trade.
Oregon Treaty
Oregon Treaty- Polk used the slogan “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” to seal this agreement making the 49th parallel dividing British North America and the United States in 1846.
James K. Polk
the 11th president
John C. Fremont –
3) John C. Fremont – A newcomer to the California region he rebelled against Mexican authority in 1846. His followers made a flag showing a grizzly bear and a single star and declared California the Bear Flag Republic.
Adams-Onis Treaty
Signed in 1819, Spain sold Florida to the United States for $5 million.
Mexican Cession
The land that Mexico Ceded to the US in 1848 under the terms of the treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Gadsen Purchase
The deal from Mexico that got New Mexico and Arizona for $10 million.
California Gold Rush
The mass migration in California following the discovery of gold in 1849.
Forty-Niner-
-A person who took part in the California Gold Rush
Boom Town
Town that grows rapidly in population as a result of sudden prosperity. (i.e. San Francisco)
Cede
To give up.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-
The treaty that ended the Mexican/American war and made the Rio Grande boundary to Texas.
Chapultepec
A Mexican military academy in Mexico City that was defended by young Mexicans in the Mexican-American war. Captured by US forces 1847. Last battle in the Mexican American War.
