Amendments and Discrimination
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as what?
Bill of Rights
This event started the American Civil War
election of Abraham Lincoln
thirteen stripes on the flag represent what?
The Original 13 colonies
Refers to an area of land set aside for Indigenous/Native American tribes
reservation
URBAN refers to -
city living
This amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
After Lincoln was killed, this man became present (he was also the first to be impeached)
Andrew Johnson
there are this many time zones in the world?
24
The the 49ers are named for the Gold Rush of 1849 sending thousands west to this state?
California
Factory workers also had to sleep in cramped, poor conditions inside -
tenements
These types of laws target African Americans and were meant to keep them from voting
Jim Crow Laws
Most soldiers that fought in the Civil War died of-
disease and infection
What part of the United States starts the day first?
Eastern Timezone
American Banks make money from letting Americans borrow, and them charge them-
interest
Railroads made it possible to travel the country in days, immigrants from this country helped lay track and dig tunnels-
China
This violent act was used by the KKK, a murder that was intended to scare other African Americans from exercising their new civil rights
lynching
The south's economy was largely driven by-
agriculture
This man announced the Emancipation Proclamation at Gettysburg, officially making slavery illegal and setting all southern enslaved men free
Abraham Lincoln
this refers to when one company owns an entire industry
Monopoly
Tenements were usually own by who?
the owner of the factory
the 14th Amendment-
granted citizenship to newly freed African Americans
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
When a country buys goods and brings them into their country
IMPORT
this US Army officer died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer
What was created at the end of the 1800s in order to make sure the trains ran on time?
timezones