Bill of Rights + Government Citizenship
This amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This invention increased cotton production and expanded the need for enslaved labor.
What is the cotton gin?
This U.S. president led the country during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system allowed Britain to control colonial trade and profit from the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This event doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams as a place for people seeking religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This economic system is based on supply and demand with little government regulation.
What is free enterprise?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This document established an early form of self-government among the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Supreme Court case gave the Court the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This Southern colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely.
What is Maryland?
Serving on a jury, voting, and obeying laws are examples of this.
What are civic responsibilities?
The movement of people to cities for factory jobs is known as this.
What is urbanization?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This colonial government allowed colonists to make their own laws in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This policy warned European nations not to colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This innovation allowed goods to be mass-produced more efficiently and cheaply.
What are interchangeable parts?
This system kept many formerly enslaved people and poor whites trapped in debt after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced ideas about natural rights and government.
Who is John Locke?
This movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This event involved South Carolina attempting to reject a federal tariff, leading to a conflict over states’ rights.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This amendment gives powers not listed in the Constitution to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
These transportation improvements lowered the cost of goods and increased trade across regions.
What are canals and railroads?
These laws were created in the South to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This idea states that government gets its power from the permission of the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This religious movement inspired many Americans to improve society and push for reform.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This law required citizens to help capture runaway enslaved people and increased tensions between the North and South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?