Legal Questions
Civil War & Civil Rights
Amendments
Hodge Podge
Immigration
100
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
100
Army that African Americans enlisted in during the Civil War
What is the Union Army?
100
Amendment ending slavery
What is the 13th?
100
System in the South that produced an endless cycle of debt
What is sharecropping?
100
Site that processed immigrants to make sure they were acceptable to be admitted to the US
What is Ellis Island?
200
Supreme Court case that ruled that illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in court
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
200
Abraham Lincoln had this belief about states that succeeded
What is still part of the United States?
200
Amendment stating that not allowing black votes would cause states to lose seats in the House
What is the 14th?
200
Response of Native Americans when Army troops were sent in
What is hostile?
200
Limited Japanese immigration in 1906
What was the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1906?
300
Law allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious printed matter from the mail.
What is the Espionage Act?
300
Person who opposes slavery
What is an abolitionist?
300
Amendment giving African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th?
300
William Jennings Bryan advocated this in his "Cross of Gold" Speech because he thought the Gold Standard would hurt farmers
What is free coinage of silver?
300
Act that restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe
What was the National Origins Act?
400
Anti-terrorism act passed to protect American interests in America that critics said violated citizen's civil rights
What is the Patriot Act?
400
Educated African American man who favored political rather than radical methods to fight slavery
Who was Frederick Douglass?
400
Amendment giving women the right to vote
What is the 19th?
400
Process that created strong, lightweight steel
What is Bessemer Process?
400
Japanese Americans in internment camps were not helped by this Supreme Court case brought on their behalf
What is Korematsu v. United States?
500
Act that provided 160 acres to settlers who would live on and improve the land
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
500
The monetary system in which a country's paper money has a value directly linked to gold
What is the Gold Standard?
500
Amendment that guaranteed equality of the law to all citizens and barred Confederate officers from holding federal office
What is the 14th?
500
Founded the American Federation of Labor
Who was Samuel Gompers?
500
In 2000, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from this region
What is the Americas?
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