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Branches of Government
100
Abolitionist
What is a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
100
a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
What is an abolitionist?
100
The document which establishes the basic principles of the American government.
What is the Constitution?
100
yellow green and______?
red
100
The 3 Branches of US Government.
What are Judicial, Executive, and Legislative?
200
an excessive devotion to one section of a country or community
What is sectionalism
200
An order issued during the Civil War by President Lincoln ending slavery in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
to separate from a nation in order to become an independent country
What is secession?
200
The branch of government that the President is the head of.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
a time period before the Civil War
What is antebellum ?
300
This amendment to the US Constitution abolished, or ended, slavery.
What is The Thirteenth Amendment?
300
the slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War
What are border states?
300
The branch of government that reviews, interprets, and decides what laws mean.
What is the Judicial Branch.
400
pertaining a city or town
What is urban?
400
This amendment to the US Constitution guaranteed African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
the physical or political edge of a region
What are boundaries?
400
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
500
permanently moving to a new country
What is immigration?
500
An act of war where one side uses ships to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving
What is a blockade?
500
Limits imposed on all branches of government by giving each the right to amend acts of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
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