CRUSH: Unit 1 Vocab

Making sure no one branch of government hold to much power

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• 3 Branches of Government

• the Constitution

French philosopher and political scientist who wrote about the USA

• Hamilton

• Kyle Ferrero

• Alexis de Tocqueville

• Fredrick Douglas

First 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.

• Declaration of Independence

• Amendment 1-10

• Promissory Rights

• Bill of Rights

Belief that power should be split between the states and Federal government

(a)  

Which of the following is NOT a Reconstruction Amendment

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Regulated tribal territory and forced many Native Americans onto reservations, giving their old land to American settlers

• Trail of Tears

• Nativism

• Reservation Act

• Dawes Act

Act that promised free land out west for those who lived on it for 5 years and made it better.

• its free real-estate

• stonks

• Homestead act

• Dawes Act

The Railroad built cross country, connecting East and West. It lead to much economic growth throughout the country

• Thomas the tank engine

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Cross American Rail System

• Coast to Coast Railroad Union

Law that kept Chinese Immigrants from coming to the USA.

• Asian Removal Act

• Return to China Act

• Asian Exodus

• Chinese Exclusion Act

The emphasis on natural born citizens, to the exclusion of immigrants

• Citizens only movement

• Populists

• Nativism

• Ku Klux Klan