Declaration of Independence
This is the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the preamble?
This man wrote "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This man wrote the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is President Lincoln?
This is the smallest state in the US (by land area).
What is Rhode Island?
This is the list of charges against King George and unfair actions placed on the colonists
What is the list of grievances?
Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This is the number of years it had been between when the Declaration of Independence was signed and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
What is 87 years? (four score and seven years ago)
This amendment outlaws slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This man was the tallest US President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These are the unalienable rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence.
What are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"
What is Douglass's message in this speech?
- That the holiday is not a celebration of liberty but a reminder of the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom while slavery exists in the nation
- To critique the Founding Fathers
- To abolish slavery
What is Lincoln's message in this speech?
- To emphasize the importance of the nation's founding ideals of equality and freedom
- To urge the living to dedicate themselves to continuing the work of those who died at Gettysburg and to ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain.
- To preserve democracy in the nation
This number of states seceded from the Union.
What is 11 states?
This was the deadliest war in American history.
What was the Civil War? It resulted in an estimated 620,000 to 850,000 deaths.
This was one of the first nations to recognize the United States independence and were their allies during the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
This is the group that Douglass presented his speech to.
Who is the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society?
Lincoln's speech was this long.
What is two minutes? The main speaker at the cemetery dedication, Edward Everett, spoke for over two hours.
This amendment gives all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This president had the shortest inaugural address in U.S. history.
Who is George Washington? During his second inauguration, his address consisted of only 135 words.
This state abstained from voting for independence.
What is New York?
This is what Douglass said needed to be "proclaimed and denounced" in America.
What are America's "crimes against God and man"?
This is what the "last full measure of devotion" refers to in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
What is the willingness to die for the cause?
This Supreme Court case created the legal doctrine "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
During the Revolutionary War more battles were fought in this state than in any other state.
What is South Carolina? Throughout the course of the American Revolutionary War, over 200 battles were fought within South Carolina, more than in any other state.