Who makes up the Legislative branch of government?
1 / What is Congress?
2 / How many Senators are from each state?
3
How many Representatives from each state are in the House of Representatives?
4 / Who makes up the judicial branch?
5 / What does the judicial branch of government do?
6
Who makes up the Executive branch of
government?7 / What is the President’s
job?
8 / What are checks and balances?
9
Why are checks and balances a good thing?
10 / Who wrote the Bill of Rights?
11 / What do the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America do?
12
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
13 / What did the Federalists want? 14 / Who was Thomas Jefferson?
15
What did the Democratic Republicans want?
16 / All of the first five presidents, except John Adams, were from what state?
17 / Name four important things that happened during George Washington’s presidency.
18
Where is the national capital?
19 / Who helped complete the design for Washington, D.C.?

20 / Who was Benjamin Banneker?
21
What important thing happened during John Adams’s presidency?
22 / Name two things that happened during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency?

23 / What was an important event that happened during James Madison’s presidency?
24
What did James Monroe do during his presidency?

25 / What was the Louisiana Purchase?

26 / What did Lewis and Clark do?
27
How did the U.S. get Florida?
28 / How did the U.S. get Texas?
29 / How did the U.S. get the Oregon territory?
30
How did the U.S. get California?
31 / What factors influenced westward migration?
32 / What was Manifest Destiny?
33
Name two overland trails used during westward expansion.34 / Who invented the cotton in?
35 / How did the cotton gin affect American lives?
36
What did Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson do?
37 / Who was Jo Anderson?
38 / How did the reaper affect American lives?
39
Who invented the steamboat?
40 / How did the steamboat affect American lives?
41 / How did the steam locomotive affect American lives?
42
What were the main ideas expressed by the abolitionists?43 / Name three important abolitionists.
44 / What were the main ideas of the suffrage movement?
45
When did the suffrage movement begin?
46 / Who were three important leaders of the suffrage movement?
47 / What was the North like before the Civil War?
48
What was the South like before the Civil War?
49 / What was the North like economically?50 / What was the South like economically?
51
What is a tariff?
52 / What was the big constitutional conflict between the North and the South?
53 / What is considered a main reason of the Civil War?
54
How did the South feel about slavery?
55 / How did the North feel about slavery?
56 / How did the South feel about the Federal government?
57
How did the North feel about the Federal government?
58 / What were the four dividing issues between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?
59 / What was the Missouri Compromise?
60
When did the Missouri Compromise occur?
61 / What was the Compromise of 1850?
62 / What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
63
1
Congress / 2
Congress is a two-house legislature in which all states are represented equally in the Senate (two Senators per state) and people are represented in the House of Representatives (number of a state’s representatives is based on state’s population). / 3

Two

/ 4
It’s based on the state’s population
5
Supreme court / 6
Determines if laws made by Congress are Constitutional / 7
The President / 8
To carry out the laws
9
Each branch of government can check the power of the other / 10
These checks keep any one branch from gaining too much power / 11
James Madison / 12
They provide a written guarantee of individual rights like freedom of speech or freedom of religion
13
Leader of the Federalists / 14
  • A strong national government
  • Limits on states’ powers
  • Development of industry on a national scale
  • A national bank
/ 15
Leader of the Democratic Republicans / 16
  • A weak national government
  • Strong states’ powers
  • Small businesses and farmers
  • Opposed a national bank

17
Virginia / 18
  1. Federal court system was established
  2. Political parties grew over the proper role of the national government
  3. The Bill of Rights was added to the US Constitution
  4. Plans were established for a national capital in Washington, D.C.
/ 19
WashingtonDC / 20
Benjamin Banneker
21
An African American astronomer and surveyor / 22
A two party system emerged / 23
He bought Louisiana from France (Louisiana Purchase) and Lewis and Clark explored this new land west of the Mississippi / 24
The War of 1812 caused Europe to have respect for the United States
25
He wrote the Monroe Doctrine to warn European nations not to interfere with the Western Hemisphere / 26
Jefferson bought land from France (the Louisiana Purchase), which doubled the size of the United States. / 27
In the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. / 28
Spain gave Florida to the United States through a treaty.
29
Texas was added after it became an independent republic. / 30
The OregonTerritory was divided by the United States and Great Britain. / 31
War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States / 32
  • Population growth in the eastern states
  • Availability of cheap, fertile land
  • Economic opportunity, e.g., gold (California Gold Rush), logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)
  • Cheaper and faster transportation, e.g., rivers and canals (Erie Canal), steamboats
  • Knowledge of overland trails (Oregon and Santa Fe)
Belief in the right of “Manifest Destiny”—The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country
33
A belief that expansion was for the good of the country and was our right / 34
Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail / 35
Eli Whitney / 36
It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.
37
They invented the reaper. / 38
He was a slave who helped develop the reaper. / 39
The reaper increased the productivity of the American farmer. / 40
Robert Fulton
41
It provided faster river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries. / 42
It provided faster land transportation / 43
Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong.
  • Morally wrong
  • Cruel and inhumane
  • A violation of the principles of democracy
And that slaves should be freed immediately / 44
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
45
Supporters declared that “All men and women are created equal.”
Supporters believed that women were deprived of basic rights.
  • Denied the right to vote
  • Denied educational opportunities, especially higher education
  • Denied equal opportunities in business
  • Limited in rights to own property
/ 46
Before the Civil War / 47
Isabel Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton / 48
The North was mainly an urban society in which people held jobs
49
The South was primarily an agricultural society in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations. / 50
The North was a manufacturing region, and its people favored tariffs that protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition. / 51
Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause prices of manufactured goods to increase. Planters were also concerned that England might stop buying cotton from the South if tariffs were added. / 52
A fee placed on goods.
53
A major conflict was states’ rights, which the South favored versus strong central government, which the North favored. / 54
Slavery / 55
Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would destroy their region’s economy / 56
Northerners believed that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons.
57
Southerners believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal
61
1820 / 58
Northerners believed that the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states / 59
Slavery, economical, cultural and Constitutional issues divided the North and South / 60
Missouri was a slave state; Maine, a free state.
62
California was a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery. / 63
People decided the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”).

Pass the ChickenSusan Austen, Prince William County Public Schools1

Pass the Chicken
What you will need:
  • Rubber chicken
  • Topic cards
How to Play:
  • In this game nobody wants to hold the chicken!
  • To begin, all students sit or stand in a circle.
  • Select one person to be IT. That person holds the chicken.
  • The teacher or "caller" reads a question to the person holding the chicken.
  • As soon as the "caller" says, "Pass the Chicken" the person holding the chicken passes it to the right. Students quickly pass the chicken around the circle.
  • If the chicken returns to the original holder before he/she can answer the question, the holder goes in the mush pot.
  • If the person finishes answering the question before it gets to him/her, the person holding the chicken is now IT.
  • Game continues until everyone has a chance to be IT.
  • Scoring is not necessary for this game.
  • It may get a little noisy.
/ Pass the Chicken
What you will need:
  • Rubber chicken
  • Topic cards
How to Play:
  • In this game nobody wants to hold the chicken!
  • To begin, all students sit or stand in a circle.
  • Select one person to be IT. That person holds the chicken.
  • The teacher or "caller" reads a question to the person holding the chicken.
  • As soon as the "caller" says, "Pass the Chicken" the person holding the chicken passes it to the right. Students quickly pass the chicken around the circle.
  • If the chicken returns to the original holder before he/she can answer the question, the holder goes in the mush pot.
  • If the person finishes answering the question before it gets to him/her, the person holding the chicken is now IT.
  • Game continues until everyone has a chance to be IT.
  • Scoring is not necessary for this game.
  • It may get a little noisy.

3rd Pass the ChickenCreated by Susan Austen, Prince William County Public Schools1