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Founding Fathers
Sectionalism
Powers of the Government
Civil Rights Movement
100
Separation based on race
What is segregation?
100
Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
100
The region of the country where you would most likely have found a plantation.
What is the South?
100
The branch of government that interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
100
She used civil disobedience to help start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
200
Refusing to trade with another nation.
What is embargo?
200
Author, printer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, and ladies' man.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
200
Henry Clay's attempt to unify the economies of North and South by building roads and canals.
What is the American System?
200
The branch of government that can declare war.
What is Congress?
200
Stokely Carmichael advocated this expression of cultural pride.
What is black power?
300
Collection of population data that is done every ten years.
What is census?
300
Defended the British soldiers accused of the "Boston Massacre" and then helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Adams?
300
Abraham Lincoln debated him about the issue of slavery in 1858.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
300
Has the power of impeachment.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
This was prohibited by the Twenty-third Amendment.
What is the poll tax?
400
A crop that is grown to earn a profit, rather than to be consumed by the producer.
What is cash crop?
400
The first Secretary of the Treasury; he was later killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
400
Popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery, granted by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, led to this violent conflict.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
400
Powers that are exclusive to the states.
What are reserved powers?
400
This Congressional panel blamed racism by whites for the tension and violence in 1960s America.
What is the Kerner Commission?
500
The division government into national, state and local levels.
What is federalism?
500
Later a staunch Antifederalist, he gave the famous "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech.
Who was Patrick Henry?
500
A stronger fugitive slave law was part of this proposed package of laws from Henry Clay.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
The part of the First Amendment that prohibits the government from telling which religion to follow.
What is the Establishment Clause?
500
This Supreme Court case in 1896 led to the institution of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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