Civics/Citizen Rights
Amendments
Civil War & Reconstruction(Causes)
Civil War & Reconstruction(Events)
Civil War & Reconstruction(End)
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The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
What is the bill of rights.
100
This amendment provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President. It replaced the procedure provided in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, by which the Electoral College originally functioned
What is 12th Amendment.
100
This is the act of making a person legal property of another and forcing the person(s) to obey them.
What is a slavery.
100
This is when the Civil War began after confederate troops attacked this place.
What is Fort Sumter.
100
He was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, he worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
What is Ulysses S. Grant.
200
These are basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government. In the United States the civil rights of each individual citizen are protected by the Constitution
What are Civil Rights.
200
This amendment established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states
What is 17th Amendment.
200
These are the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
What is states' rights.
200
This battle was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.
What is Battle of Gettysburg.
200
This was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.
What is Freedman's Bureau.
300
This is the number of amendment that are in our Constitution today.
What is 27.
300
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.
What is the Voting Rights Act.
300
This is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
300
This was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
What is Atlanta Campaign.
300
These were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965
What is Jim Crow laws.
400
This process has two major steps. Step 1: Two-thirds of both houses of Congress pass a proposed constitutional amendment. This sends the proposed amendment to the states for ratification. o Step 2: Three-fourths of the states (38 states) ratify the proposed amendment, either by their legislatures or special ratifying conventions.
What is the amendment process.
400
The Voting Rights Act that prohobited racial discrimination in voting was signed into law in this year.
What is 1965.
400
These two abolitionist were once enslaved.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
400
He was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
400
These are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. The amendments were important in implementing the Reconstruction of the American South after the war.
What is Reconstruction Amendments.
500
This is the decade when a new amendment to the United States Constitution broaden the definition of citizenship?
What is 1860s.
500
What amendment(s) protect voting rights? (In Chronological Order)
What is the 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th.
500
This was an effort by a white abolitionist to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The leaders was accompanied by 20 men in his party, and was defeated by a platoon of U.S. Marines led by Colonel Robert E. Lee. The leader had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his formative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid, but Tubman was prevented by illness, and Douglass declined, as he believed the plan would fail.
What is John Brown's Raid.
500
He was an American soldier known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865
What is General Robert E. Lee
500
He was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
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