Constitution 101
Reconstruction
Segregation
Civics and Gov
Random Review
100
A freedom listed in the 1st Amendment
What is the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, or freedom of petition?
100
The Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
The name commonly used to refer to the laws and systems of racial segregation in the southern US
What is Jim Crow or Jim Crow Laws?
100
The branches of the US government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
100
The battle called the "bloodiest day in American History"
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
The number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
200
Reconstruction began in this year.
What is 1865?
200
A law that prevented a man from voting if his grandfather had not been eligible (allowed) to vote
What is a grandfather clause?
200
The two parts of Congress
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
200
The first state to secede after Lincoln's election in 1860
What is South Carolina?
300
The Amendment that includes the right to an attorney (lawyer) if you are accused of a crime.
What is the 6th Amendment?
300
The Amendment that gave all men the right to vote "regardless of color, race, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
300
The name given to the system designed to prevent any one branch of the US Government from having too much power
What is 'Checks and Balances'?
300
Meaning "obvious fate," this phrase was used to support America's Westward Expansion in the 1800's
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The current number of Constitutional Amendments
What is 27?
400
A system wherein a person rents farmland and in addition is required to give a portion of the year's crops to the landowner
What is sharecropping?
400
An example of a segregation law
What is the Separate Car Act, a ban on interracial marriage, segregated school/libraries/water fountains/buses/trains, etc.?
400
Responsible for nominating new Justices (judges) to the Supreme Court
What is the President?
400
The two states that joined the US under a compromise in 1820
What are Maine and Missouri?
500
The year in which the most recent Amendment was ratified
What is 1992?
500
This group is responsible for establishing 3,000 schools for African American children
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
He brought a case to the Supreme Court in the 1890's with the goal to end segregation
Who was Homer Plessy?
500
The length of one term (time you serve in the role before you need to be reelected) in the House of Representatives
What is 2 years?
500
The number of seats in Congress
What is 535 (100 Senators and 435 Representatives)?