Government/Citizenship
This document outlines the structure of the U.S. government and is considered the "supreme law of the land."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on all printed materials, including newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the first battle of the Civil War, fought in April 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon a federal fort in South Carolina.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This document, ratified in 1781, was the first constitution of the United States but created a weak central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
Answer: What is the 13th Amendment?
This principle of government ensures that each branch (executive, legislative, and judicial) has the power to limit the actions of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?
The slogan "No taxation without representation!" was a response to British taxes imposed without this.
What is colonial representation in Parliament?
This battle, fought in Pennsylvania in 1863, was the turning point of the Civil War and resulted in a Union victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house legislature, with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise?
This federal agency was created to help formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and medical care after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The process by which people from other countries can become U.S. citizens is called this.
What is naturalization?
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people in this event, which was later used as propaganda by the Patriots.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These were a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to support the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
These laws were passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans and keep them in a labor force similar to slavery.
What are Black Codes?
Citizens of the U.S. have both rights and responsibilities, including this duty, which requires them to serve if called upon by a court.
What is jury duty?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed these laws, which were meant to punish the colonists but instead united them against British rule.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This general was the commander of the Confederate Army and surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This principle of government ensures that power is divided between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This system of farming developed in the South after the Civil War, where freedmen worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
The first amendment protects five key freedoms, including speech, religion, press, assembly, and this.
What is the right to petition?
This secret group, led by Samuel Adams, organized protests and acts of resistance against British policies, including the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The Union’s strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River was called this.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that protect individual rights are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved individuals.
What is the 14th Amendment?