Amendments
American Revolution
Exploration and Clonization
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
amendment that abolishes slavery in all parts of the United States.
what is the Thirteenth Amendment
100
main author of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson.
100

religious group that settled in Pennsylvania in order to practice their religion freely.

What is Quakers.

100
Union strategy to blockade the Confederacy's coastline.
What is Anaconda Plan.
100

white southerns who helped in the Reconstruction effort; viewed bu many southerns as traitors.

What are scalawags.

200
amendment that protects against double jeopardy.
What is Fifth Amendment
200
document written in 1776 that included colonists' grievances against the King of England.
What is Declaration of Independence.
200
first European to reach the Americans, dating back the the late 1400.
What is Spanish.
200
Union victory that gave the North complete control over the Mississippi River.
What is Battle of Vicksburg.
200
person who grew crops on land owned by someone else and gave the landlord a share of the crop to pay for rent and other expenses.
What is sharecropper.
300
Principle that states all legal rights promised to citizens must be respected by government.
What is due process.
300
woman who dressed as a man in order to join the Continental Army.
What is Deborah Sampson.
300
group who sailed to the Americas on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution.
What is Pilgrims.
300
President of the Confederate States of America.
What is Jefferson Davis.
300

granted African Americans citizenship and guaranteed them the rights to sue, and own property.

What is Civil Rights Act of 1866.

400
right promised by the Seventh Amendment
What is trial by jury
400
Native American who served as an officer in the British arny during the American Revolution.
What is Joseph Brant.
400

the first legislature in the New World, established in Virginia in 1619.

What is the House of Burgesses.

400
famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a nation cemetery.
What is Gettysburg Address.
400
ratified in 1868, this amendment stated that all people born in the U.S., except Native Americans, were U.S. citizens.
What is 14th Amendment.
500
amendment that states "Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted"
What is Eight Amendment.
500
European country that assisted the Americans at the Battle of Yorktown.
What is France.
500
people who agreed to work for a certain number of years to make up for the cost to travel from Europe to America.
What is indentured servants.
500
place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House.
500

1896 Supreme Court case that decided the concept of "Separate but equal" was constitutional, giving a legal justification of Jim Crow Laws.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson.

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