Constitution
Government
Supreme Court Cases
Civil War
Reconstruction
100

This was the agreement that came before the Constitution

Articles of Confederation

100

Name the three branches of government

Legislative

Judicial

Executive

100

What court case established judicial review?


Bonus: What is judicial review?

Marbury v Madison

Laws can be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

100

What order did Lincoln write that freed all the slaves of the Southern states?

Emancipation Proclamation

100

Who became president after Lincoln?

Andrew Johnson

200

What is the beginning intro of the Constitution called?

The Preamble

200

What are reserved powers?

Powers granted only to the states, not the federal government

200

Dred Scot v Sanford declared that the government could not ban ________ from the territories

Slavery

200

Name 2 reasons for Northern victory

- Industrialization

- Larger population

- Larger navy

- Controlled shipping and railroads

- Support from France and Britain

200

True/False: Lincoln wanted to forgive the South and make it easy for them to return to the Union

True

300

Why did Anti-Federalists object to the Constitution?

It did not have a Bill of Rights

300

Who is head of the Executive branch?

The President

300

What Supreme Court case establish "separate but equal" segregation as legal?

Plessy v Ferguson

300

True/False: The Kansas Nebraska Act was a peaceful solution to the question of slavery in the territories

False

300

This group opposed Lincoln's plan and wanted the harshly punish the South

Radical Republicans

400

What is the First Amendment?

Freedom of speech, assembly, press and religion

400

This philosopher inspired the three branches of government

Baron de Montesquieu 

400

Schenk v US said that which basic freedom could be restricted during times of war?

Freedom of speech

400

What does it mean to "suspend the writ of habeas corpus"?

People can be imprisoned without a trial

400

These laws restricted the rights of former slaves

Jim Crow laws

500

Our Constitution is inspired by the social philosophers of what time period in Europe?

The Enlightenment

500

What is the system for ensuring that no one person/group gets too much power in our government?

Checks & Balances

500

True/False:

Korematsu v. United States ruled the internment of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans was constitutional 

True

500

Which Amendment freed the slaves?

Bonus: Which Amendment gave African American men the right to vote?

13


14

500

System of farming common for former slaves, it kept them in poverty

Sharecropping

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