Questions and Answers | Fall 2026 |
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Dred Scott v Sanford - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1857 Supreme Court decision that
stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they
were living and the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Plessey v Ferguson - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a challange to the jim crow laws. the
supreme court that as long as both races were given the same privaleges,
it was ok, a "separate but equal" idea
Patronage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Granting favors or giving contracts or making
appointments to office in return for political support
Spoils System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A system of public employment based on
rewarding party loyalists and friends.
, Partisan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group,
or cause
Reconstruction Amendments (civil rights) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔13th: abolished
slavery, 14th: secured the rights of former slaves after reconstruction, 15th:
prohibits the U S from preventing a citizen from voting based on their race
2 main Political Parties - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Republican and Democrat
Libertarian Party - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3rd party, wants less gov role in social
conduct, less gov in econ activity
Title given to leader of department/cabinet - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Secretary, (
e.g. Secretary of Defense )
Brown v Topeka Board of Education - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔overturned Plessy v
Ferguson - separate but equal 1954
Declares war - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Congress
Balance the ticket - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to choose a vice-presidential running
mate in order to help draw votes from all areas of the country
Cloture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A procedure for terminating debate, especially
filibusters, in the Senate