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• The American Revolution began in 1775 and ended in 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863 throught the Emancipation Proclamation
• Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• by the late 1600s hereditary slavery became the rule in the British colonies
• 1808 the importation of slaves was banned in the British Empire
• legislative - law making, writing and passing federal laws, forming structures to implement policy, overseeing the resulting bureaucracy
• the president is both head of state (represents country) and head of government (leader of executive branch)
• executive - carrying out the policies set by legislature, implementing laws passed by congress, appointing officials, commander-in-chief of armed forces
• judicial - interpreting the constitution and deciding whether or not actions taken by other branches are constitutional
• • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (more diverse membership, 535 elected officials, elected by the people, 2 year term, initiate tax laws and spending bills, initiate impeachment of a president, 25 yr., 7 yr. citizen, resident of their district
• senators have more power than representatives because they represent states rather than districts
• senate has less members but more power than house of reps
• • SENATE (30 yr., 9 yr. citizen, resident of their state, no officer with power, 2 from each state
• PRESIDENT-executive orders, vetoes, appointing federal judges, commander in chief military, control over 15 departments, 90 indenpenden agencies, 4 branches of the military, Natural born citizen, 35 yr., checks congress, signs legislation into laws or rejects through a veto, can issue executive orders
• JUSTICES ARENT ELECTED→ president nominates the supreme court members, don't have term limits can be removed by impeachment or conviction 
JUDICIAL REVIEW - supreme court makes a wling → all other courts must follow this precedent, operates outside of elections and voters input
• IMPEACHMENT - when a president commits high crimes and misdemeanors, Congress votes on whether to remove them from office, two thirds majority needed in both houses
• declaration of independence 1819-the founding fathers the men who created our government and forged the new nation
• the us constitution brought together ideas from many people-inducing the articles of confederation and declaration of independence
• Americanization or the assimilation of ditterent ethnic groups into shared Anglo-American based identity -A melting pot > (loosing ethnic identity), Assimilation implies absolute national unity, integration occurs at levels of partial blending → The processes affecting change and the relationships between social groups are seen as one way
• cities in texas - dallas and houston
• pheonix is in arizona
• south consist of kentucky, west virginia, virginia, tennessee, north carolina, south carolina, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, arkansas, georgia and florida
• chicago is in illinois
• new england consist of maine, vermont, new hampshire, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts
• midwest consists of ohio, indiana, michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, iowa, nebraska, kansas, north dakota, south dakota, montana, wyoming
• mountain states consist of colorado, utah, idaho, arizona, new mexico, nevada, oregon, washington, california
• meaning of amendment in the american political system: the amendment process is a way to change the constitution
• founding fathers are people who helped to write the constitution of the united states