Amendments
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were enacted to give rights to these individuals.
Who were former slaves?
The President when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Who was President Hoover?
During Reconstruction, many former slaves were reduced to doing this for work.
What was Sharecropping?
The first permanent English settlement founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The Amendment that ended Prohibition.
What was the 21st Amendment?
The President that pardoned President Nixon.
Who was President Ford?
The first place that fired was exchanged, and, as a result, is often considered the start of the American Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter, SC?
Date that the Declaration of Independence was signed?
What was July 4, 1776?
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
The President who did not seek re-election as a result of the ongoing crisis in Vietnam (after the Tet Offensive).
Who was President Johnson?
In 1864, late into the Civil War, this man became a Lt. General and assumed full command of the U.S. Army.
Who was Grant?
The years that the American Civil War was fought.
What were the years of 1861-1865?
The Amendment that lowered the voting age to 18.
What was the 26th Amendment?
The President at the start of WWI even though he had compaigned that he would keep America out of war.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The last name of the man who broke ground for his first gun powder mill on Delaware's Brandywine River.
Who is DuPont?
The year the Constitution was written.
What was 1787?
The Amendment that has been used to apply the Bill of Rights ti states and has been used to ensure that states don't violate people's rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The first female member of the the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?
The term for loyalty to interests of your own region of the country during the Civil War.
What was sectionalism?
In 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at this location.
What was Appomattox Court House in Appomattox, VA?