The Constitution Definitions Presidents Court CasesSynonyms and

Antonyms

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This group of constitutional framers supported a strong central government, division of powers and checks and

balances

   

Antifederalists’ demand for a formal summary of citizens’ rights and freedoms

added to the constitution

James Madison

This branch of government makes the laws

* Enumerated powers

This amendment to the constitution was passed in 1868

and gave all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.

Civil Rights

A way to change the constitution with the times

Belonging to the period before the civil war

In 1866, Discriminatory laws that were enacted in many southern states; after the Civil War and before the passage of the

Fourteenth amendment, that restricted African American lives

•During reconstruction

The practice of winning candidates’ rewarding their supporters with

government jobs

A 1993 treaty that lowered tariffs and brought Mexico into the free trade zone established by the US and Canada

President Franklin Roosevelt’s program to alleviate the problems

of the Great Depression

An economic condition marked by both inflation and high unemployment

By 1930, people named the shantytowns in American cities

after this president

After WWI the Allies rejected this presidents Fourteen Points

This presidents parting words encouraged the nation to follow a

policy of neutrality when he warned the US to steer clear of, “entangling commitments alliances,” or political

commitments to other nations.

This president began relaxed relations (Détente) with USSR and the People’s Republic of

China in 1972

In 1933 this president passed New Deal legislation establishing the FDIC (Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation), CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), AAA

(Agricultural Adjustment Act) along with several other reform laws

Gave legal justification for racial segregation by ruling that separate

facilities for different races are legal as long as those facilities were equal

to one another

*Equality

*Rights of minority groups

Established limits on free speech by setting the clear and present danger standard for when free

speech can be restricted

*civil liberties

Ruled that segregation in education creates inequality.

Overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson and nullified the concept of

“separate but equal”

Established the Supreme Court’s right of judicial

review and Strengthened the judiciary in relation to other

branches of government

*Separation of powers

*The judiciary

A 1973 Ruling that state laws that criminalize

abortion are unconstitutional

*Civil Liberties

The synonym for trade

Synonym for espionage

Antonym of deficit

Synonym for ethnic cleansing

Antonym for the policy of communist expansion