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No quartering of soldiers in times of peace.

3rd

100

The people have the ultimate power.

Popular sovereignty. 

100
Got the nickname the "Great Compromiser" after crafting the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Compromise Tariff of 1833.

Henry Clay

100

This Native American tribe was removed from Georgia after gold was discovered on their lands.

Cherokee

100

The only port open to the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Galveston

200

No self-incrimination or double jeopardy.

5th

200

The congress can impeach the president for high crimes and/or misdemeanors. 

Checks and Balances

200

Vice President and Senator from South Carolina that advocated for states' rights and secession.

John C. Calhoun

200

Holiday celebrating the news of slave emancipation. 

Juneteenth

200

Name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's very famous book.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

300

Says citizens have more rights than just those listed in the Bill of Rights.

9th

300

The power of the government is restricted by laws.

Limited government

300
A founding father from Philadelphia that helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, invented the bifocal, and discovered electricity. 

Benjamin Franklin

300

Jefferson sent them to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

Lewis and Clark

300

Lead a violent slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 that killed men, women, and children.

Nat Turner

400

No searches and/or seizures without a warrant or probable cause.

4th 

400

Voters elect representatives to the government.

Republicanism

400

Helped lead Indian Removal, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War with the nickname "Old Fuss and Feathers".

Winfield Scott

400

Supreme Court Chief Justice that wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case.

Roger Taney

400

This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

19th

500

Right to a trial by jury in a civil case involving $20 or more.

7th

500

Divides the governments into federal, state, and local levels.

Federalism

500

Argued with Lincoln and wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Stephen Douglas

500

Documented birds during Westward Exapnsion/Industrialization.

John J. Audubon

500

Transcendentalist author who wrote the Scarlet Letter.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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