Presidents
Government
Antebellum
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
100

This president orchestrated the Trail of Tears

Andrew Jackson

100

The president is a part of the ____ Branch

Executive

100

This political party was fighting to keep the practice of slavery in their states

Democratic Party

100

This man became president after Lincoln was assassinated, and began the process of reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

100

The year the Declaration of Independence was signed

1776

200

Sally Hemings is associated with this president

Thomas Jefferson

200

The only federal officials appointed to life terms

Supreme Court Justices

200

This politician was almost beat to death by a cane in the senate chambers

Charles Sumner

200

Congressmen who were pushing for racial equality and harsher punishments for former Confederate States

Radical Republicans

200

The name of the late 19th century movement, pushing to make the purchase of alcohol illegal

The Temperance Movement

300

Name 2 presidents who won the election, but lost the popular vote

Trump, Bush, Adams, Hayes, Harrison

300

The way electoral votes are allocated 

Senate + House Representatives

300

This famous book was written in 1852. It shed light on the horrors of slavery, and showcased the humanity of Black Americans

Uncle Tom's Cabin

300

The process of white southerners trying to rewrite the history of the civil war and build statues of Confederates

The Lost Cause

300
Name two of the other people John Wilkes Booth and Company tried to assassinate the same night as Lincoln.

Grant, Johnson, Seward

400

The only president elected without belonging to a political party

George Washington

400

The only place that has electoral votes, but is not a state

Washington D.C.

400

This state was admitted to the union, along with Missouri, in the Missouri Compromise

Maine

400

Series of laws that kept former slaves from experiencing equality

Black Codes

400

Controversially, Abraham Lincoln stopped the practice of this law during the Civil War

Writ of Habeas Corpus

500

This president created a doctrine which prohibited European nations from claiming North American lands

James Monroe
500

If the president and vice president are unable to fulfill their duties, who becomes president?

Speaker of the House

500

What new ideology got rid of the resolutions from the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850

Popular Sovereignty

500

The common narrative of Reconstruction taught in the late 19th, early 20th centuries

The Dunning School

500

This word refers to the British practice of seizing American ships and forcing their crew to join the British Army

Impressment

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