Midterm Review The BIG HITS

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Midterm ReviewThe BIG HITS

• January 19, 2007

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The Last Day

• Its the last day of midterm review.
• Mr. Silverman is therefore going to lay out some
  HUGE terms.
• Make sure you know these.....
• And
• GOOD LUCK

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Salutary Neglect

• Salutary Neglect Period when England allowed
  colonists a great amount of self-government and
  economic freedom.

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Mercentalism

• Mercantilism Economic theory that a country
  should acquire as much gold or silver, as
  possible from its colony. This is done by
  exporting more goods then importing.

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The CRY
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
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Articles of Confederation

• The first Constitution of the United States.
• Very weak?
• Only weak legislative branch.

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The GREAT Compromise

• Congress would contain two houses (Senate, House
  of Rep.).
• Number of House Reps would be based on states
  population.
• Number of Senate representatives would be 2 for
  each state.

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Electoral College

• Political parties choose electors. Each state has
  as many presidential electors as it does senators
  and representatives in Congress.
• Voters cast votes for electors, who will support
  their popular vote for President and Vice
  President.
• Electors cast the official votes for President
  and Vice President.

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3 Branches and their function

• Legislative Branch Makes Laws
• Executive Branch Executes/Enforces laws
• Judicial Branch Interprets Laws
• Judicial Review Court can decide whether laws
  are constitutional or not. Marbury v. Madison

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Checks and Balances

• Each branch has power over the other.

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Manifest Destiny

• Manifest Destiny The U.S. has a god-given
  mission to expand and spread liberty across the
  land.
• From sea to shining sea

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Washington Farewell Address(1796)

• Warned against political parties.

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The Louisiana Purchase

• Surprisingly because of cash issues Napoleon
  offers the whole Louisiana Territory for 15
  Million to Jefferson!!
• Problem Was Jefferson constitutionally allowed
  to do this?

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Monroe Doctrine

• U.S. would not permit any further colonization of
  the Western Hemisphere. Or it would be seen as a
  hostile act

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Two Nations?

• While the North was becoming more industrial and
  developed.
• The South stayed farming and rural.

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Compromise of 1850

• 1) Congress would admit California as a free
  state. (Favored North).
• 2) A Fugitive Slave Act would order all citizens
  of U.S. to assist returning slaves who had
  escaped. ( Favored South).
• 3) The people of the territories of New Mexico
  and Utah would decide for themselves (Popular
  Sovereignty) whether slavery would be legal.

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Emancipation Proclamation The freeing of the
  slaves in all rebelling states.

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13th Amendment

• Illegalized slavery in the United States.
• Ended Slavery.

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Lincolns View on Reconstruction

• Lincoln wanted a very forgiving plan for the
  South
• With malice toward none with charity for all
  with firmness in the right, as God gives us to
  see the right, let us strive to finish the work
  we are in to bind up the nations wounds.

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Fourteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment States that no state shall
  enforce any law taking away a citizens rights.

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Fifteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment No citizen may be denied
  the right to vote By the United States or any
  State on account of race, color, or previous
  servitude.

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Radical Reconstruction

• 1) It put the South under military rule, dividing
  it into 5 districts run by a Northern General.
• 2) It required all states to allow African
  Americans to vote in elections.

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Jim Crow

• Jim Crow Laws Laws that segregated blacks and
  whites in schools, parks, hospitals, etc.

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THE END