Bill Of Rights
What Is The 2nd Amendment
Who is John Hancock?
speech given by President Washington as he concluded his second and final term as President. This set a precedent for future Presidents.
What is the Farewell Address?
The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved
What is Slavery?
April 12-14, 1861
Confederate victory
A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
A constitutional right to practice freedom of speech, press, religion and to practice a peaceful protest
What is the 1st Amendment
American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Who is Samuel Adams
The best team of advisors ever
What is the Presidential Cabinet
Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union
What is the Confederacy?
July 21, 1861
Union loss
Showed the Union the war would not be easily won and that they needed to train their armies and leaders
What is Battle of the Bull Run?
Nobody can search your body, or your house, or your papers and things, unless they can prove to a judge that they have a good reason for the search.
What is the 4th amendment
American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.
Who is Paul Revere?
Jefferson, Hamilton, Knox, and Randolph
What is the Members of Washington's first Presidential Cabinet.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
March - July 1862
Confederate victory
Showed Mcclellan's weaknesses
Just because these rights are listed in the Constitution doesn't mean that you don't have other rights too.
What is the 9th Amendment
American attorney, planter, politician, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
Who is Patrick Henry?
An uprising by farmers in Pennsylvania over taxes which was quickly diffused by President Washington
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
She led 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
August 28-30, 1862
Confederate victory
Confederate attack that helped push Union forces out of Virginia
What is the Second Battle of the Bull Run?
Anything that the Constitution doesn't say that Congress can do, is left up to the states and to the people.
What is the 10th amendment
American physician who played a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Who is Joseph Warren?
Was made of ivory and wood
What is Washington's teeth?
Virginia, July 1st, 1861, first major land battle of Civil War
What is the Bullrun?
September 17, 1862
Strategic Union victory
Allowed Lincoln to make the Emancipation Proclamation (prevents foreign powers from entering the war for slavery, provides a rationale for the war, and allows blacks to enlist in the army)
McClellan's last battle as general
What is the Battle of Antiem