Compromises
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100
This compromise, established in 1820, divided the nation in half (excluding one state) depending on their stance on slavery, as well as adding one slave state and one free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This man wrote the declaration of independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The person who wrote the I have a dream speech?
Who was Martin Luther King?
100
This group is the central point of all government in the United States as stated in the Constitution itself.
What is the people of the United States?
100
This essential court case established Judicial Review by declaring that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was Unconstitutional.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
200
This compromise established certain property as a fraction of an individual in regards to representation in the House.
What is the Three - Fifths Compromise?
200
_____ are listed particularly in the Declaration of Independence in order to demonstrate the erroneous and tyrannical behavior of King George and Britain itself. BONUS: List seven of the ____ enumerated.
What are grievances and/or usurpations? BONUS: Answers may vary; Refused to provide assent to colony laws, forbidden governors to pass legislation of pressing importance, imposed taxes upon colonies without their consent, cut of the colonies' foreign trade, quartered without permission large bodies of troops in the colonies, often deprived colonies of benefits of Trial By Jury, and incited Indian insurrections inside of the Colonized territories.
200
This clause, which mentioned the suffrage of a man's forefather, limited the voting rights of blacks.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
200
The Constitution was established for this particular reason, specifically stated in the document itself. BONUS: State the other primary reasons stated in the clause.
What is "In Order to form a more perfect Union?" BONUS: to "establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
200
This was the ruling of the New Jersey V. T.L.O case.
What is that juveniles have different Constitutional rights in regards to search and seizure than adults; unwarranted search and seizure is acceptable by the Fourth Amendment in cases of probable cause.
300
This compromise established the way of determining representation in both sections of the legislative branch.
What is the Great(Connecticut) Compromise?
300
This is the date that the declaration of independence was signed.
What is July 4th, 1776?
300
The 14 year old boy who was lynched for hitting on a white woman.
Who was Emmit Till?
300
These are the primary branches of the federal government and their basic functions.
What are the Legislative (Creates the Law), the Executive (enforces the Law), and the Judicial (interprets the Law)
300
This case established that freedom of speech extended to freedom of expression.
What is Tinker V. Des Moines/ Texas V. Johnson?
400
This compromise allowed Congress the power to abolish the slave trade in the United States after 1808.
What is the Slave Trade Compromise?
400
This is where the Revolutionary War ended.
Where is Yorktown?
400
These regulations established in the South were founded in order to impede the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
400
This Article of the Constitution establishes the executive branch and declares that the President is the head of all operations in such. BONUS: Name the Articles that establish the other governmental branches.
What is Article II? BONUS: Article I- Legislative Branch, Article III - Judicial Branch
400
This SCOTUS case established the constitutionality of segregation by stating that "separate but equal" public services were acceptable.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
500
This five part accommodation, which temporarily appeased both sides of the nation, included the abolition of the slave trade in the nation's capital. BONUS: Name the remaining sections of this bill.
What is the Compromise of 1850. BONUS: California added as free state through pop. sovereignty, strengthened/established the Fugitive Slave Act, established Utah and New Mexico as slave territories, and granted ten million dollars to Texas to relinquish New Mexico.
500
This document ruled the United States until the Constitution replaced it. BONUS: these are some of its weaknesses.
What is the Articles of Confederation? BONUS: Giving too much power to the states, Giving little to no power in the Federal Government, and Leading to immense debt because of lack of taxing.
500
This was the name of the Jim Crow Law that Homer Plessy Challenged.
What is the "Separate Car Act?"
500
The section of the Constitution that enumerates the rights and powers of the Federal Legislative Branch. BONUS: Name three of the powers guaranteed by this section.
What is Article I, Section Eight. BONUS: Answers May Vary; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, to provide and maintain a Navy, and to make all laws that may be necessary and proper in regards to the need of the general public.
500
The defendant of this SCOTUS case was an African - American slave who attempted to sue for his freedom, claiming that his being brought into a free state entitled him to such.
What is Dred Scott V. Sanford?
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