Government
Manifest destiny
Quotes
Vocabulary
Civil War
100
Name the three branches of government.
Legislative, Executive, & Judicial.
100
What is the name of the Territory bought from Napoleon for 15 million dollars?
1803 Louisiana Purchase.
100
"Taxation without representation"
Who was taxing the colonists?
Great Britain or Parliament.
100
The largest number of something, but less than a majority.
Plurality
100
What were the years of the American Civil War & who was the president of the union of the time?
1861-1865. Abraham Lincoln.
200
This law made it a crime to help a runaway slave and made it a crime to not report someone helping a runaway slave.
Fugitive slave act.
200
Name the location being pointed on thamap
Name the location being pointed on the map.
Gadsden Purchase.
200
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What document is this from.
Gettysburg address.
200
The act of putting the good of the country before one's own personal interest.
Civic virtue
200
First battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
300
What did the Three-Fifths Compromise determine?
Every 5 slaves would be counted as 3 people when determining population.
300
What is the treaty's name that gave the territory of Florida from Spain to the United States?
Adams- Onis treaty of 1819.
300
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What document am I?
Declaration of Independence.
300
The people are the source of power for the government.
Popular Sovereignty.
300
Who was the first African American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?
William Carney
400
This section of the Constitution explains the reasons for the creation of the Constitution and the goals of the government.
Preamble
400
Name of the BOOM TOWN that grew because of the California Gold rush
San Francisco.
400
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What document am I?
U.S Constitution.
400
An economic theory that believes the colonies should benefit the mother country.
Mercantilism.
400
Which amendments abolished slavery & which amendment gave slaves citizenship?
13th & 14th
500
What is the name of the Supreme Court case that determined Judicial Review?
Marbury Vs. Madison
500
What was the name of the new territory gained from the Mexican-American war & what was the new border established because of it?
Mexican Cession & Rio Grande.
500
"That all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What document is this from?
Emancipation Proclamation.
500
To confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
Ratification.
500
The Supreme Court ruling that slaves are not citizens and the Missouri Compromise 36-30 line is unconstitutional.
Dred Scott V. Sandford.