Native Americans
American Revolution
U.S. Constitution!!
Migration
Pre/Post Civil War
100
The word for a widely held but oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is a stereotype?
100
An area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control, such as the Jamestown _________.
What is a colony?
100
The Constitutional Compromise that determined how enslaved people would be counted in each state's population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
100
This Constitutional Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship for any person born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
This word literally translates to "before the war" - as in, pre-Civil War America.
What is antebellum?
200
When a person or group has supreme power or autonomy - as in popular ___________ or tribal ___________.
What is sovereignty?
200
The word for an American colonist who supported the British and King George during the American Revolution.
What is a loyalist?
200
The part of the Constitution that begins with: "We the People, in order to form a more perfect union..."
What is the Preamble?
200
When discussing migration, war, gang violence, or lack of jobs are examples of ______________.
What are push factors?
200
This word is a synonym for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
A designated parcel of land within the United States reserved for the use of a specific Native American tribe.
What is a reservation?
300
Complete this phrase: Life, liberty, and _________________.
What is "the pursuit of happiness?"
300
The power to declare laws or executive actions unconstitutional belongs to this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
A naturally occurring features—such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and deserts—that separate geographic areas.
What is a physical border?
300
The act of ending a system, practice, or institution - such as slavery.
What is abolition?
400
The U.S. president who gave a speech to Congress demanding the removal of the Cherokee Tribe from their land in 1830.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
400
The name of the immigrant who fought in the revolution, became our first Treasury Secretary, and was killed in a duel?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
400
The ability of each of the 3 branches of government to balance each others' powers.
What is "checks and balances"?
400
This 1882 law barred immigration from one specific country into the United States — and stayed in place for more than 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This compromise created the Mason Dixon Line. States admitted to the U.S. above the line would have no slavery, and states below would allow slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
Inappropriate Halloween costumes imitating another person's race or ethnicity are an example of this idea.
What is cultural appropriation?
500
The title of the document that officially made the United States its own country in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
This Constitutional Amendment protects Americans from "cruel and unusual punishment" - ie, torture.
What is the 8th Amendment?
500
The word for the potato disease that caused mass starvation and migration from Ireland in the 1840s.
What is blight?
500
The name (literally, it sounds like someone's name) for the system of segregation and discrimination in the South after the Civil War.
What is "Jim Crow"?