Reform Movements
The temperance movement attempted to keep people away from what?
What is alcohol?
The Constitution begins with the phrase "We the People." This phrase refers to this principle of government. A. Individual rights B. Separation of Powers C. Popular sovereignty D. Republicanism
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle started the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
The Declaration of Independence was written this year.
What is 1776?
Horace Mann was concerned with this and helped to fight for this for everyone
What is education
The Fourth Amendment protects people from this.
What is people who are suspected of crimes from illegal searches?
He was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This event happened in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Era of Manifest Destiny was best characterized by which of these. A. Political cooperation B. British military conquest C. French economic assistance D. American territorial expansion
What is American territorial expansion?
Harriet Tubman is best known for her work with this.
What is the Underground Railroad?
He wrote "Common Sense" to persuade Americans to support independence from Britain.
Who it Thomas Paine?
This battle gave the Union (North) control of the Mississippi River and split the confederacy into two
What is Battle of Vicksburg?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was important because it -
What is provided a process for admission of new states to the Union?
Separate jails for women, men, and children were a result of this movement.
What is the prison reform movement?
The U.S. Constitution grants certain powers to the national government and others to the states. This constitutional concept is called
What is Federalism?
This Southern general who led the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
This was the site of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
In the case of "Dred Scot v. Sanford," the U.S. Supreme Court decided that this was true. A. Dred Scott should be returned to free territory. B. slaves were not American citizens and had no rights. C. slavery should be banned in the U.S. D. slaves were to be freed once they resided in free territory.
What is that slaves were not American citizens and had no rights?
The Seneca Falls Conference led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrecia Mott was called
Womens Rights Movement
The idea that the U.S. government can have no powers or responsibilities beyond those assigned in the Constitution is called this.
What is Limited government?
She was a leader of both the abolitionist movement and women's rights movement, and helped set up the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
In 1620, this group of people arrived in North America.
What are the Pilgrims?
The significance of the Supreme Court case of "Marbury v. Madison" is that it did this.
What is established the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional/ established judicial review?