American authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau created a unique style of literature largely tied to nature. This literary movement is better known as _________.
Transdendentalism
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This is the formal name given to this group pictured here.
The Corps of Discovery
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This law made it illegal to criticize a national government official and it was passed as a means of crushing any dissent to Federalist politicians. Jeffersonians argued that it violated the 1st Amendment.
Sedition Act
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Maybe the most famous 'conductor' of the underground railroad, this individual traveled to the South over a dozen times in an effort to assist runaway slaves in gaining their freedom.
Harriet Tubman
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During the Constitutional Convention what was the 3/5 Compromise?
Only 60% of a state's slave population would count towards determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives
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Individual who promoted no longer imprisoning the insane with other criminals but rather creating separate asylums for them.
Dorothea Dix
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This Supreme Court case is significant because it claimed the power of judicial review, which states that the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws passed by Congress unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison
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This individual became president and considered himself representative of the "common man" and revolutionized the presidency by using executive powers like no president had before him.
Andrew Jackson
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The solution to create a two house (bicameral) legislature during the Constitutional Convention is better known by THIS term.
The Great Compromise
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What did the Anti-Federalists demand (and the Federalists promised to do) in order for the Constitution to be ratified by enough states to become the "supreme law of the land?"
Add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution
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It was necessary for THIS number of states to ratify the Constitution before it became the "supreme law of the land."
9 states
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Examples of this include fake illnesses, deliberately working slow, and breaking work tools.
passive resistance
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THIS individual is known as the author of the Constitution.