Tuesday-We are going over a review of last weeks content due to the long weekend.
The Length of a presidents term can be up to 10 years, if the president passes away and you are the vice, you can serve up to the last two years of the presidents term, and then serve two terms after that if they are elected
FDR was the longest serving president at 12 years, which was back when the costitution didnt have a rule on how many terms one person can serve
President Can/is- The Commander in Cheif of our Army, Grant Pardons, Make treaties, Appoint Federal Officers and Ensure laws are executed
Supreme Court has no qualifications to become a Justice. They are Appointed by the president, and okayed by the senate.
The ways a Justice can lose his or her job is by Retirement or Death, as they have life terms unless they choose otherwise
The Supreme Court acts as a apellement, in which they review appeals, as they are the highest level of court in the U.S.
There are up to 9 Supreme Court Justices
The Constitution is the supreme law of the U.S., it sets up our government and its responsibilities, and its a living document, as it is constantly being changed.
The stachute of limitations is state based, which it can only be changed or applied via a state government
Manifest Destiny- the god-given right that we can expand west, regardless of who is there.
Gadsen Purchase 1853
Texas Annexation 1845
Spanish Cession 1819 (East Florida)
Spanish Cession 1818 (West Florida)
Alaska Purchase 1867
Oregon Territory 1848
TEXAS WAR FOR INDEPENDANCE
Causes: Mexico Forced religion and rules that they did not like
Results: Texas won and became an independant country
Wednesday-Continue Going over 7th grade review
Mexican American War
Causes- Border Dispute, the Americans thought the boundary was more south than the mexicans thought.
Polk sent troops to the Rio Grande, which mexico thought was their land, and took it as an invasion, and we were able to twist it to seem as if mexico invaded us.
This war was purely for land, and with texas being largened, and with the "purchase" of land west of texas such as, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and the very west part of New Mexico.
Civil War
Causes: Sectionalism- The North made Money industrially, and the South made money through Farming. The Banks were in the north, railroads were in the north. Sectionalism was the separation in the North and South based on their lifestyles. States rights is idea that states should be able to do what they want, with no interference from the federal government. States in the south disputed with the Feds about slavery, because they felt their ability to keep slaves should not be infringed by the governent. Tariffs- a tax put on imported goods. High Tariffs usually get americans to buy american goods. There was no tax on natural resources, so the north bought cotton from wherever they wanted, but when they put tariffs on mechanical items, the south was put at a disadvantage. and in the election of 1860, when Lincoln won the election, the south was afraid that they would lose slavery, so they succeded. Dred Scott Decision- Supreme Court ruled that blacks were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in court. The Supreme Court also said that the slavery could not be abolished by the government, making slavery open everywhere.
Why did the North Win the War?
The North had More resources; which were population, railroads, factories, and the south did not have these things.
The South had a better reason to fight, which was their way of life, while the north at first couldn't care less. The North
Thursday-Reconstruction: 1865-77
The Period of Time in Which the south had to be re built, socially and ecomically and brought back into the union. President Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the south, because he never believed the south actually left.
Republican Radical Reconstruction- Rebuitl south economically, socially, politically and physically. The south had just lost their way of life(slaves) and most of the battles took place in the south, which left some cities in ruins. The south was then split into five military districts. The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were passed.
13th- made slavery unconstitutional and illegal
14th- stated that states cannot take away the rights of citizens without due process of law.
15th- it allowed all men to vote, no matter their skin color
Freedmen's Bureau- Provided food, clothing, education and job training to freed labor
Southern Government taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"
Carpet Baggers- Northern Born White Republicans who moved to the south and won office to make money
Scalawags- Southern Born white republicans. The Southerners believed that they were betraying their people.
The Governments put in were accused of widespread corruption by the southern folk
Reconstruction left very deep divisions between the northern annd southern states
After the Military Left the territories, racist white males who were rich took the government back over. Jim Crow laws were then created. Black Folk would not see the rights they deserved until 1964.
Rutherford B. Hayes went against Samuel Tilden, who was leading popular vote and electoral college but the south gave Hayes the presidency if he promised to end reconstruction
When Hayes became president, he removed federal troops from the south, which ended reconstruction.
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