https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe Anqi Xue en-us 2016-09-04 10:46:36 UTC 2016-09-04 22:12:56 UTC hello@padlet.com anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482015 A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. ]]> 2016-09-04 11:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482015 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482088 An act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.]]> 2016-09-04 11:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482088 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482149 A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe.]]> 2016-09-04 11:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482149 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482200 An organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. ]]> 2016-09-04 11:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482200 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482256 A political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.]]> 2016-09-04 11:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482256 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482678 Formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. ]]> 2016-09-04 11:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482678 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482767 The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.]]> 2016-09-04 11:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482767 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482818 One of the most important compromises reached during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787. The delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in Congress.]]> 2016-09-04 11:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482818 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482846 a member of a major political party in the early years of the U.S. that wanted a strong central government]]> 2016-09-04 11:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482846 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482883  A person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Anti federal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government.]]> 2016-09-04 11:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482883 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482992 The federal principle or system of government.]]> 2016-09-04 11:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121482992 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483015 The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.]]> 2016-09-04 11:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483015 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483054 “Congress shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise (of religion)” is called the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment. The free-exercise clause pertains to the right to freely exercise one's religion. It states that the government shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.]]> 2016-09-04 11:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483054 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483099 The clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.]]> 2016-09-04 11:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483099 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483162 Review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.]]> 2016-09-04 11:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483162 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483184  land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.]]> 2016-09-04 11:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483184 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483210 a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.]]> 2016-09-04 11:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121483210 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504870 a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.]]> 2016-09-04 21:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504870 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504907 The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.]]> 2016-09-04 21:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504907 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504988 Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.]]> 2016-09-04 21:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121504988 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505027 the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished; annulment. 2. (often capital) (in British territories) the ending of the slave trade (1807) or the ending of slavery(1833): accomplished after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce. 3.]]> 2016-09-04 22:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505027 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505093 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."]]> 2016-09-04 22:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505093 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505143 Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.]]> 2016-09-04 22:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505143 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505191 Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.]]> 2016-09-04 22:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505191 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505231 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.]]> 2016-09-04 22:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505231 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505290 The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." ]]> 2016-09-04 22:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505290 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505324 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States]]> 2016-09-04 22:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505324 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505442 A poll tax is a tax levied as a prerequisite for voting. After Reconstruction (1865–1877)—the twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861–1865)—many southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.]]> 2016-09-04 22:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505442 anqixoxo99 https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505476 the former practice of segregating black people in the US.]]> 2016-09-04 22:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anqixoxo99/cagjokt4csbe/wish/121505476