Constitution
The first ten amendments to the constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
The names of the two sides fighting in the Civil War
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
The number of settlements that became the original states of the United States of America.
What is thirteen?
The act that called for a tax to be placed on ALL paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
The first American president
Who is George Washington?
The "first constitution" that failed and lead to the document that we follow today.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Lincoln's strategic plan to free enslaved people specifically in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Another country/people that settled in North America in the 16c.
What is the Netherlands?
Who are the Dutch?
What is Spain?
Who are the Spanish?
What is France?
Who are the French?
A country that was inspired by the American Revolution and went on to have its own revolution.
What is France?
What is Haiti?
The reasons the Articles of Confederation failed.
Congress could not collect taxes, raise a military, or regulate trade. It called for a weak central government.
The reason the founding fathers created the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches.
What is to prevent tyranny?
A group of Northerners that opposed the war by avoiding enlistment and even helped Confederate prisoners to escape the North.
Who are the copperheads?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The imaginary line that prevented American colonists from moving West.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The political party that developed in 1854 to combat the extension of slavery.
What is the Republican party?
The job of the Supreme Court
What is to review laws and interpret what the constitution means?
What is South Carolina?
The year that the final "original" colony was settled in North America.
What is 1733?
The #1 reason for America's success during the revolution.
What is the patriot's commitment to the cause? or fighting for their freedom/home
The Supreme Court case that declared that People of African heritage, whether slaves or free were not and could not be citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Heller)
Reasons some Americans wanted a strong central government.
Some wanted a powerful federal government to protect them from Indigenous peoples, the Spaniards, and the British.
Others believed a strong government would make Western land more valuable.
Some who had lent money to the government during the war or just after it, felt a stronger government would be more likely to repay them.
The compromise that declared popular sovereignty (states voted whether or not they wanted to be slave states or free states) and resulted in the Bleeding Kansas massacre.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The war that resulted in colonists paying unwanted taxes to the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
The conditions of the Treaty of Paris. (at least three)
What are: Britain recognized the independence of the United States. The western boundary of the new country was the Mississippi River. The Congress was to recommend that the states return property taken from Loyalists during the war. The northern boundary of the United States was to include the line of the Great Lakes, and citizens of both the United States and Britain were to have the right to use the Mississippi. Britain kept control of Canada.
The only amendment in the constitution that repeals another amendment