Part A Short-Answer Questions
Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow each document in the
space provided.
Document 1
Number of Immigrants
Entering U. S. Each Year
1,200,000
1,100,000
Hard Times & U. S. Industrial
Epidemics in Italy Expansion
1,000,000 -
900,000
Irish Famine &
Military Draft Anti-Semitism &
in Germany Draft in Russia
Japanese
Immigration
800,000
World War I
700,000
U. S. Depressions
1884 & 1893
600,000
Panic of 1873
and Depression
Chinese Immigration
Economic Opportunity Railroad Building &
Free Western Land
U. S. Panic
Political Unrest of 1857
in Germany
Outbreak of
Irish Famine
U. S. Civil War!
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
U. S. Depressions
1837 & 1843
100,000
1830
1840
1850
1860
1890
1900
1870 1880
Year
1910
1920
Source: Martin W. Sandler, In Search of America, Ginn (adapted)
la Based on this graph, identify two conditions in their native countries that caused immigrants to come
to the United States. [2]
(1)
Score
(2)
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discovery of cape town-portuguese empire

development of africans language-dutch east india company

introduction of railway-british empire

i think they came to washington to protest

separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.   the intent is to prevent the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.  

the traditional characterizations of the powers of the branches of american government are:

* the legislative branch is responsible for enacting the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government.

* the executive branch is responsible for implementing and administering the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch.

* the judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.

forty state constitutions specify that government be divided into three branches:   legislative, executive and judicial.   california illustrates this approach; "the powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial.   persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this constitution."

while separation of powers is key to the workings of american government, no democratic system exists with an absolute separation of powers or an absolute lack of separation of powers. governmental powers and responsibilities intentionally overlap; they are too complex and interrelated to be neatly compartmentalized. as a result, there is an inherent measure of competition and conflict

minnesota:   minnesota house research,   separation of powers: when statutes and court rules conflict, 2005