| | - Review III
- This term means basic individual rights
- This term means people receive equal treatment under the law
- Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court that increased the power of the Court
- What Supreme Court case increased the power of the Supreme Court?
- This term means the Supreme Court can decide if a law is Constitutional
- Has the Supreme Court’s power increased or decreased over the past 100 years?
- Recent Supreme Court decisions have influenced laws.
- “Judicial Activism”
- What are some examples of issues in which the Supreme Court has caused laws to change?
- This foreign policy stated that European nations needed to stay out of Latin America
- This term means Americans wanted the country to spread from the east to the west coast
- What was the major issue dividing the North and the South before the Civil War?
- What was a territory that created a major problem concerning slavery?
- This term means that people in a territory would vote to decide if they were to be free or slave
- This slave tried to get his freedom and the Supreme Court ended up deciding that blacks were property
- What was Abraham Lincoln’s original war aim at the beginning of the Civil War
- What did Lincoln write that changed the war effort into one of freeing the slaves?
- Who took office after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
- What political party was in the majority of Congress following the Civil War?
- What did Andrew Johnson do to upset the Republicans?
- What was the period called immediately after the Civil War?
- List some amendments passed during the Reconstruction era
- Following Reconstruction, Southerners passed laws that took rights away from blacks. What were they called?
- What were some things that Southerners did to keep blacks from voting?
- What was the goal of the “Homestead Act”?
- This connected the East coast with the West
- What happened to Native Americans when the whites moved west in large numbers?
- Which of the following does not belong?
- How did the Industrial Revolution influence... How goods were produced?
- Slide 31
- Slide 32
- Slide 33
- List two positive effects of Urbanization
- Slide 35
- This term means the U.S. is a land of immigrants that blend together
- Slide 37
- What group (time period) do we refer to as “Old Immigrants”?
- What part of Europe were the Old Immigrants from?
- Slide 40
- This term means people had anti-foreigner feelings
- List some reasons why Americans were upset about more immigrants coming into the country
- Anti-immigration legislation:
- Slide 44
- What is the name for our type of economic system in the U.S.
- This means the government needs to keep its hands off the economy
- These formed to eliminate competition (one business in control of the whole industry)
- List some important industrialists of the era of Big Business
- This term means breaking up monopolies
- What was a famous trust-busting act?
- The first regulatory agency ever established by the government was to oversee this industry - break up monopolies and watch for price fixing
- What was the name of the first regulatory agency?
- Today, this federal commission oversees the market to make sure monopolies are not forming
- This is a type of tax the government can put on foreign goods to help U.S. industries
- What is an advantage of a corporation (this is why so many formed during the industrial revolution)
- List four conditions that led to the formation of labor unions
- List some early leaders of the labor union movement
- This term means labor unions negotiate with management as one voice - united
- What is the most powerful weapon of a labor union?
- What was the federal governments early position concerning labor unions?
- 1. Big business leaders gave large amounts of money to election campaigns for Congressmen.
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