Amendments
This amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
This was the sixteenth U.S. President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812.
What is "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
This man was President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This Native American man said, "The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians because the Indians had it first."
Who is Tecumseh?
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the nineteenth amendment?
This was the tenth U.S. President.
Who was John Tyler?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as _____.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This was the main general in charge of the Confederate forces.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This man was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This amendment clarifies rights as a citizen of the United States.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
This was the twelfth U.S. President.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This document stated that the United States would not interfere in the affairs of European nations; the United States would recognize and not interfere with European colonies that already existed in North and South America; the Western Hemisphere was to be off-limits to future colonization by any foreign power; and the United States would consider any European power's attempt to colonize or interfere with nations in the Western Hemisphere to be a hostile act.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This man was the main general who led the Union forces.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This man was killed in a duel on July 11, 1804.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the fifteenth amendment?
This was the seventeenth U.S. President.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This 1824 Supreme Court case ruled that the states could not interfere with the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House on this date.
What is April 9, 1865?
This was the French foreign minister who agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
Who was Charles Talleyrand?
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
This was the eighteenth U.S. President.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This document stated that Maine would enter the Union as a free state and that slavery would be prohibited in any new territories or states formed north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. military history.
What is the Battle at Antietam?
This man wrote The Last of the Mohicans, which took place during the French and Indian War.
Who was James Fenimore Cooper?