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He was an enslaved person who once had been owned by a U.S Army doctor. Later sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
Was the first state to include the Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
What is Virginia?
100
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
What is the First Amendment?
100
It was a document that limited the English ruler's powers in 1215. Forced on King John.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
They had the better advantage in the Civil War.
What is the Union?
200
He was a Union General who captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This plan called for the central government to have three separate branches.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
Gives you the power and right to vote no matter your race, color, and servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
200
Which social class was made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans.
What is the middle class?
200
Freed enslaved people only in areas that were fighting the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
He was a Union general who advanced towards Atlanta and believed in total war.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
The date of the signing of the Constitution
When is September 17, 1787 ?
300
Women's right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
A servant who signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americans.
What is an indentured servant?
300
Is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus?
400
He murdered Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
Supporters of the Constitution.
Who are Federalist?
400
This Amendment provides that no president may serve more than two terms.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
400
A three-way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa to trade African Americans.
What is the triangular trade?
400
All-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight.
What is total war?
500
He was a Senator who worked out the Missouri Compromise in 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
He was the Constitutional Convention president who signed the Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
500
Bans poll taxes on national elections.
What is the Twenty-fourth Amendment?
500
An intellectual movement that a group of English thinkers came to believe that all problems could be solved by human reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
This year is when the Union wins a victory at Gettysburg.
When is 1863?