Students will learn about the people who guided the building of a government after successfully gaining independence.
Vocabulary:
amity friendship
Anti-Federalists those who favored a weaker federal government that gave more power to the states and people
Federalists people who wanted a strong central government with more power than the people or states
formidable mighty
Three-Fifths Compromise agreement that three out of every five, or three-fifths, of the enslaved people would be counted in the population
The students will be examining the Constitution of the United States of America. The Constitution limits the government and protects the individual rights of the people. The Constitution frames the civil rights of the citizens and defines the role of federal and state responsibilities.
Vocabulary
civil discourse when each side tries to persuade people to their views and beliefs in a respectful and open manner
treason giving aid and comfort to enemies or waging war against the United States.
The students will examine the Bill of Rights to see the protection it provides for individual rights from government authority.
Vocabulary
constitutionality how aligned a law is to the Constitution
counsel a lawyer
due process The government must follow the rules and procedures of the law with no exceptions.
eminent domain The government cannot take any private property without paying for it.
felony major crime
firearms guns, pistols, rifles
judicial review when a law is not in line with the rights of the people in the Constitution, it is struck down and no longer a law; when a law is “upheld” by the Supreme Court, it is still a law
search to look through
search warrant a written permit from a judge giving permission to search
seize to take by force
sentenced punished
subpoena a written order
The students will study the implementation of the new government in the country. The United States was growing quickly. Governing is different from revolution.
Vocabulary
foreign policy the government’s guideline for business with other countries
impressment kidnapping and forced enrollment of American sailors in the Royal Navy