March 2, 2020 - Exam Study Guide
- 3 branches of government
- Legislative
- Executive
- Judicial
- Legislative branch
- Bicameral (made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate)
- Executive branch
- President
- Chief Executive Officer
- Must be a natural born citizen
- Thirty-five years of age
- A resident of the US for 14 years
- President
- Judicial branch
- Supreme Court
- Justices are appointed by the president and serve for life
- The supreme court can declare laws of Congress unconstitutional
- Supreme Court
- Constitution
- Establishes a framework for the government
- Mississippi Government
- Lawmaking body is the legislative branch
- Checks and balances
- Keeps one branch of government from gaining too much power
- Bill of Rights
- The first ten amendments to the US Constitution
- To vote a person must be
- 18
- 3 Major tribes in Mississippi
- Natchez
- Choctaw
- Chickasaw
- Spanish and French
- First Europeans to explore Mississippi
- Cotton
- Most prosperous crop in the south and Mississippi during the antebellum period
- Cotton Gin
- Invented by Eli Whitney
- Separated the seeds and stems from the cotton
- Increased the use of slavery and made cotton more prosperous
- 13th amendment
- Ended slavery
- 14th amendment
- Made African Americans citizens with equal rights and protections under the law
- 15th amendment
- Gave African American men the right to vote
- Large Planters
- Owned the most slaves and the most land but made up the smallest group in Antebellum Society
- Popular Sovereignty
- People in a territory voting to decide on slavery
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- People in Kansas and Nebraska would vote to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty
- Fighting broke out in Kansas and the conflict became known as Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scott
- Slave in Missouri who was taken to Illinois
- Sued for his freedom because he claimed being taken to a free territory made him a free man
- Supreme Court eventually ruled against him and said that because slaves were not citizens, he could not sue in federal court
- Missouri Compromise
- Missouri would be slave state
- Maine would be a free state
- Any states in the Louisiana Territory north of the compromise line would be free
- Any states in the Louisiana Territory south of the compromise line would be slave
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Called for the immediate abolition of slavery in all rebelling states
- South’s Economy
- Relied on farming and agriculture
- North’s Economy
- Relied mainly on industries
- Slavery
- Issue that would ultimately divide the country
- Anaconda Plan
- North’s military plan to surround the south by taking Vicksburg and cutting them off from supply routes