Real Life Scenarios (Amendments)
A student is suspended for wearing an armband to protest a school rule without disrupting class.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This issue was the main cause of conflict between the North and South.
What is slavery?
He was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This first major battle showed the war would be longer than expected
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The expansion of slavery into western territories increased tensions because it threatened this balance.
What is the balance of power between free and slave states?
Police enter a home without a warrant or probable cause and collect evidence.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This concept allowed settlers to decide whether a territory would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This battle is considered the turning point of the war in the East.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
The election of Abraham Lincoln led Southern states to take this action.
What is secession?
A suspect refuses to answer police questions to avoid admitting guilt.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Union general led forces to victory and later became president.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant? I'll double your points (this question) if you can tell me what year? (ALL OR NOTHING)
This Union victory gave control of the Mississippi River.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led directly to violence because it allowed this decision to be made by settlers.
What is popular sovereignty?
A defendant waits years for a trial while sitting in jail without a court date.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This event involved violent conflict in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This general led the March to the Sea using total war tactics.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
This Tennessee battle was one of the bloodiest in the beginning of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Shiloh?
The Dred Scott decision increased sectional tensions by denying this group legal rights.
Who were African Americans?
A person is sentenced to an extremely harsh punishment for a minor crime.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
He was the Confederate president during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Where did Sherman begin and end his march to the sea?
Begin just outside of Chattanooga and ended at the Port of Savannah, in Georgia.
The failure of compromises in the 1850s showed that this issue could no longer be peacefully resolved.
What is slavery?