Amendments
What are Amendments 1-10 called
What is The Bill of Rights
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854, Stephen Douglas ◦It proposed splitting the Nebraska territory into two parts – Kansas and Nebraska.
Name the face on the 100 dollar Bill
What is Benjamin Franklin
What was the 1st Battle of the Civil War called
Battle of Fort Sumter
What is the 13th Amendment
abolished slavery in the United States.
◦Required citizens to catch runaway slaves or be fined or sent to jail.
◦A new court would hear cases regarding runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Law
What is originally known as the Woman's Right's Convention
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
What is destroying an enemy’s resources, such as stealing food, killing animals, wrecking railroads, burning houses, etc.
Total war
The Fourteenth Amendment
Due Process Clause, which prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe published a novel called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
The book detailed the fictional life of a kind, deeply religious slave who is sold to a cruel owner who treats him brutally.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Who was the conductor for the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
What Is the 15th Amendment
The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
California’s admission would shift the balance in Congress in favor of free states.
Compromise of 1850
Southern Secession
It's illegal to secede from the Union
Where General Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Appomattox Court House
What is the 19th Amendment
Women’s Right to Vote
“The Great Compromiser”
Henry Clay
The last of England's 13 Colonies
What is Georgia
What explained that the Union was fighting in the Civil War to ensure that American democracy would survive.
The Gettysburg Address