People
U.S. President who appointed Justice Roger Taney
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The military occupation of the South after the North/South War
What is Reconstruction?
In 1861, the Northern Congress illegally passed an ___ tax.
What is "income"?
This famous compromise was named after the state of Missouri
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This term means "a pair running for President and Vice President together"
What is a "ticket"?
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments specifically addressed these individuals
Who are former slaves?
The use of battleships to "surround" a nation
What is a "blockade"?
___ is the only branch of government that the Constitution allows to suspend the right of habeas corpus.
What is "Congress"?
What Congress did to a President after he vetoed several Reconstruction Acts
What is "impeached him"?
The Amendment that changed the way Presidents and Vice Presidents were elected
What is the Twelfth?
Lincoln's Vice President at the time of his assassination
Who was Andrew Johnson?
It's defined in the Constitution as the crime of "levying war against [the states]"
What is "treason"?
The Emancipation Proclamation stated that only slaves in the ___ were "free"
What is the Confederate States?
Lincoln did this to more than 300 Northern newspapers
What is "shut them down and/or had the editors arrested and jailed without trials"?
It means "rebellion against or organizing an overthrow of an existing government"
What is "sedition"?
Two-word alliterative name for the Congressmen who impeached Lincoln's Vice President
What are Radical Republicans?
What protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements were collectively known as: the ___ ___
What is "the American System"?
The Fifteenth Amendment said that former slaves could not be denied the right to ___.
What is "vote"?
The Fourteenth Amendment said that former slaves were these
What are citizens?
Nationalist U.S. Supreme Court justice who was a last-minute appointment by John Adams
Who was John Marshall?
Opportunity seekers who came south from the north to participate in corruption/make their fortunes
What were "carpetbaggers"?
The kind of tax added to something someone buys
What is an "indirect tax"?
To remove a president, at least ___ of the Senate must vote to do so.
What is two-thirds?
The Sixteenth Amendment was passed after the people were promised that this type of tax would be eliminated
What are tariffs?
Two-word term for the U.S. Supreme Court's deciding whether a law passed by Congress is constitutional
What is "judicial review"?