Constitution
What was the name of the first governing document of the United States and was eventually replaced by the Constitution?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What branch makes laws?
What is the Legislative Branch?
What railroad connected the East and West?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who was president during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Which amendment ended slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What are the first 10 amendments called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
Which branch interprets the laws?
What is the Judicial Branch?
What was the name of the 19th-century belief that the United States had the god-given destiny to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What issue caused major conflict between the North and South?
What is slavery?
What organization helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What compromise in the Constitution counted enslaved people as a fraction of a person?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What are the three branches of government?
What are the executive, judicial, and legislative branches?
Which group helped build the highest percentage of the transcontinental railroad?
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
What document freed enslaved people in Confederate states?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What laws limited the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction?
What are Jim Crow Laws? (also acceptable: Black Codes)
What are the first three words of the Preamble (And our Constitution?)
What are "We the People"?
Which part of Congress gives each state 2 representatives?
What territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase that doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Maryland was considered what kind of state during the Civil War?
What is a border state?
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th amendment?
What was the name of the plan at the Constitutional Convention that wanted representation based on population? (hint: the opposing plan was "The NJ Plan")
What is The Virginia Plan"?
What is it called when a President does not sign a bill so that it becomes ratified?
What is a veto?
Between 1830 and 1850, the U.S. government forced about 100,000 Native Americans to leave their ancestral homelands in the Southeast and walk thousands of miles to an unfamiliar area called "Indian Territory"." What was this event called?
What is the Trail of Tears?
What year was Abraham Lincoln elected?
1860
What building was usually constructed first in historical African American communities, often serving as a center for worship, education, and community gatherings?
What is the church?