Constitution
The First Amendment contains the right to freedom of religion, speech, press, and these other two freedoms.
What is petition and assembly?
The first battle of the war, a small one, involving an island.
What was Fort Sumter?
He won the Election of 1824, some said through a 'corrupt bargain.'
Who was John Quincy Adams?
He was a urban/city enslaved man, so it was easier for him to escape, which he did by boat, impersonating a free black sailor.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The year the California Gold Rush was in full swing.
What was 1849?
The first state to sign the Constitution, and it's nickname is the 'First State.' Former President Biden's home state.
What is Delaware?
The battle where the Union found the Confederacy's plan wrapped in a bundle of cigars; also the bloodiest single day for the American military.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He gets credit for being the primary author of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
She was the primary author of the Declaration of Sentiments, essentially the feminist movement's founding document.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The country's first national park, it was also the last safe haven for buffalo after white settlers killed all but a few thousand in the late 1800s.
What is Yellowstone?
The last state to sign the Constitution, which makes sense, because ever since Roger Williams founded it, it had been fiercely independent.
What is Rhode Island?
The 1862 Act that Radical Republicans hoped to demoralize the South with, and they accused Lincoln of not enforcing it strongly enough.
What was the Confiscation Act
The first governor of Massachusetts, he's also the author of the famous "City on a Hill" notion of America, used also during Manifest Destiny
Who was John Winthrop?
Publisher of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator" in Boston, he was known for his temper and stubbornness.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
The battle where Custer had his famous, ill fated last stand.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This rebellion helped prompt the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Lincoln suspended this right despite The Supreme Court's order that his doing so was unconstitutional.
What is habeas corpus?
Loser of the Election of 1800
Who was John Adams?
He and one of his top ministers helped convert Richard Allen to methodism; Allen then helped convert his master, who freed him (Allen later founded the black owned AME, American Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia)
Who was Francis Asbury?
This massacre occurred two weeks after Sitting Bull was shot by a Indian Affairs officer, leading to 300 dead.
What was Wounded Knee?
This amendment prohibits illegal search and seizure of private property.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The Emancipation Proclamation and required military service contributed to a white backlash that culminated with this spasm of violence in the summer of 1863.
What were the New York City Draft Riots?
He wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court in Marbury vs. Madison, thus shaping the Court's main source of power.
Who was John Marshall?
This Quaker woman didn't care about the right to vote as much as she wanted to be a minister and run her own church.
Who was Lucretia Mott?
This Sioux warrior sat out the war in the 1870s, having already defeated the US army in his own war in the late 1860s.
Who was Red Cloud?