Bill of Rights & Reform Trivia
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Double Jeopardy

Due Process

Eminent Domain

Self-Incrimination 

5th Amendment 

100

Name the triggers words for the following: 

-- "Beginning of Civil War"  

-- "end of Civil War" 

Ft. Sumter (Confederate Attack) 

Appomattox Court House (Grant surrenders to Lee) 

100

This map represents...? 

Louisiana Purchase 

100

These topics are key issues that led to the outbreak of the.......

1. Sectionalism

2. Tariff Disputes 

3. States’ Rights

4. Slavery

The Civil War 

100

This is an example of which of the following principles of government?

Separation of Powers 

100

Combined both Virginia & New Jersey plans, creating a bicameral legislature 

Great Compromise

200

-- Idea introduced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

-- individualism

-- connecting spirituality with nature 

Transcendentalism 

200

Which Reconstruction legislative goal helped provide medical care, food, and education to newly freed individuals? 

Freedman's Bureau 

200

What was one effect of the women's rights movement? 

Passage of the 19th Amendment 

(Grants women's suffrage) 

200

This was created to maintain the balance between slave/free states

Missouri Compromise 

200


These examples illustrate which principle of govt?

EX 1: President breaks the law = Congress investigates and impeaches the President 

EX 2: If Congress tries to pass a law that is unconstitutional… = they can be overturned by the:

– Supreme Court 

– or vetoed (rejected) by the president 



Checks and Balances 

200


A

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Name this invention !


Cause= More efficient way to separate seeds from cotton fibers 

Effect= Led to development of plantation system and expansion of slavery 

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin 

300

Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in what areas? 

Confederate controlled areas only 


300

What was the orderly process for admitting states into the Union? 

Northwest Ordinance 

300

What was the final Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

Slaves were property and not considered citizens

- We had no right to sue 

300

This picture illustrates which principle of government? 

Federalism (10th Amendment) 

300

Boston Tea Party ------> ________ --------> 1st Continental Congress 

Intolerable Acts 

400

Protects people accused of crimes

EX: Miranda Rights, Speedy Trial 

6th Amendment 

400

What was one main effect of the Battle of Antietam? 

Lincoln's confidence to announce the Emancipation Proclamation

400

Which reform movement matches the following characteristics: 

- John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman

- Fight against slavery 

- EFFECT = 13th Amendment 

Abolitionist Movement 

400

EFFECT 1= caused an event known as "Bleeding Kansas" 

EFFECT 2: allowed slavery to expand into territories 

Kansas-Nebraska Act 

400

Derived from John Locke's social theory contract: "consent of the governed" 

-- "We the People" 

Popular Sovereignty 

400


D

500

Federalism and States Rights 

10th Amendment 

500

What are the 3 Reconstruction Amendments ? 

13th: abolished slavery

14th: citizenship rights

15th: gives black men the right to vote 

500

1) Happened under Madison's presidency

2) The cause of this event was British impressment 

War of 1812 

500

Name 4 characteristics of the Compromise of 1850

-- Cali/ free state

--popular sovereignty 

--Fugitive Slave Act

--No slave trade = Washington DC 

500

Led a reform movement to improve prisons and mental health 

Dorothea Dix 

500

1)  involved the establishment of colonies to provide raw materials to the "mother country" and serve as markets for manufactured goods

2) a nation's wealth was directly linked to the amount of gold and silver it possessed

Mercantilism 

600

Minimal government interference, private property ownership, entrepreneurship, and healthy competition are all characteristics of what economic system? 

Free Enterprise System 


600

What were 2 effects that happened after the Siege of Vicksburg ?

Effect 1= Gained control of MS River

Effect 2= Split Confederacy in half 

600

Match the following trigger words with its correct Supreme Court Case:

1) Judicial Review

2) Regulate interstate commerce 

3) Necessary and Proper Clause 

1) Marbury v. Madison

2) Gibbons v. Ogden

3) McCulloch v. Maryland 

600

What is one main effect that happens after Lincoln's 1860 election?

South Carolina (secedes) withdraws from the Union

600

"elected representatives" 

EX: voting

Republicanism

600

What caused the reasons for the growth of representative government? 

Distance from Britian 

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