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The National Government
The State Governments
The Federalists
The Antifederalists
Levy Taxes
Sign Treaties
Issue Money
All of the above are true
How slaves would be counted for taxes and representation
The disagreement over the Virgina Plan and the New Jersey Plan
The disagreement over the Virginia Plan and the New York Plan
The number of branches in the government
African Americans
Native Americans
Women
All of the above
All powers are held by the central government
Power is shared between the central government and the states
All power is held by the states
A King governs according to a constitution
Whether or not the national government should be a republic
Whether or not all the states had to have thhe same form of government
Who would run the national government
Who should control the Western lands
Power was divided between the national government and the states
The government would not have the power to tax
The national government would be strong
The nation would not be headed by a king
The Northwest Ordinance
The Great Compromise
The New Jersey Plan
The Three-Fifths Compromise
To appoint justices to the Supreme Court
To choose the President of the United States
To nominate candidates for vice-president
To decide on the number of senators from each state
They claimed that the Declaration of Independence gave Southerners the right to revolt against an oppressive government
They used John Locke's theories of natural law and inalienable rights to justify forming a government that would protect their property
They argued that since each state had voluntarily joined the Union, it had the right to leave the Union
They cited the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which protected property owners against unlawful government attacks on their property
Suffragists
Democratic Party
Plantation Owners
Freedmen's Bureau
Pro-civil right laws for former slaves
Contracts that Southern states signed with Congress
Southern laws designed to limit the rights of African Americans
Exams given in freedmen's schools
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
It operated school to educate former slaves
It distributed food, clothing, and fuel to needy Southerners
It helped to reunite families separated by the war or slavery
All of the above are true
It provided schools and supplies to freedmen in the South
It helped reunite African-American families
Its teachers faced violence and received death threats
President Johnson was opposed to it
The Northwest Territory
The South
New England
The Midwest
Sectionalism
Federalism
Nationalism
Good Feelings
There was a great deal of trade between them
They both opposed slavery
They were both industrial regions
They both held similar political views
Most white southern families held at least one slave
White Southerners formed less than half of the region's population
All African Americansin the South were enslaved
About 8% of African Americans in the South were free
Westerners wanted cheap land and good transportation
Westerners wanted an alliance with Mexico to help control Native Americans
Westerners wanted free land and government grants
Westerners wanted gold as their currency
Transportation improvements made it easier to ship products to distant regions of the nation
The British blockade during the War of 1812 deprived Americans of European manufactured goods
A series of Supreme Court decisions allowed the federal government to block the sale of foreign-made goods in the United States
The single currency issued by the national bank encouraged trade between regions of the country
The steam powered locomotive, the telegraph, the steamboat
The spinning mill, the telegraph, the steel plow
The spinning mill, the steel plow, the steamboat
The steel plow, the spinning mill, the steam powered locomotive
Swift moving streams and rivers provided a source of power
Poor soil conditions in New England made farm families willing to do factory work
It had ships and access to the ocean to transport finished goods
All of the above answers are true
Americans had to make their products because a British blockade kept European products out of the United States
British invasions destroyed American farms, forcing farmers to take manufacturing jobs to support their families
Plantation owners had to turn to manufacturing because they could no longer sell their cotton to the British
The resounding U.S. victories strengthened gun manufacturing
It was made in favor of Marbury
It resulted in Marbury's removal from the Supreme Court
It increased the power of the Congress
It established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review
To review election results to determine if the elections were conducted honestly
To be the final authority on what the Constitution means
To remove elected officials from office if they behave unlawfully
To force the state courts to follow the laws passed by Congress
Is in violation of federal law
Is in violation of a state law
Is in violation of the U.S. Constitution
Is in violation of any of the above
Established in the case of Marbury v. Madison
States that the Supreme Court interprets whether laws are constitutional
Created a lasting balance among the three branches of government
All of the above
The power to amend the Constitution
The power to declare a federal law unconstitutional
The power to determine what the Constitution means
The power to decide if a state law violates the Constitution
Only the federal government had the right to control interstate commerce
States had power over the national government in matters involving taxation
A state could not tax a national bank
A state had the right to control its own commerce
They gave each state the power to control slavery
They created a stronger federal government
They decided that states could not regulate interstate commerce
All of the above are true
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