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Revolutionary War
Civil War
Constitution
Slavery
"Compromises"
100
These people fought against each other in the Revolutionary War.
Who are the British and the Americans?
100
The cause of the civil war.
What is slavery?
100
This was at the beginning of the constitution.
What is the preamble?
100
The group of people who opposed slavery.
Who are the abolitionists?
100
This is a compromise from 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This caused the Boston Harbor to be closed.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
This battle was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The reason they wrote the constitution.
What is creating a government?
200
These people generally supported slavery.
Who are the Southerners?
200
This person wrote a lot of compromises.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
Paul Revere most likely yelled this on his midnight ride to warn the colonists of the British.
Why did Paul Revere say,"The Redcoats are coming?"
300
The start of the civil war.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
300
The main writer of the constitution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This freed all slaves.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
This law made the Northerners VERY mad.
What is the Fugitive Slave law?
400
This is how the Declaration of Independence starts.
What is,"When in the course of human events," from?
400
The siege at the same time as Gettysburg.
What is Vicksburg?
400
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
Harriet Tubman.
Who helped with the Underground railroad and used to be a slave?
400
They are all conditions of the Missouri Compromise.
How are these connected: Maine as free state, Missouri as a slave state, and Louisiana territory as free territory North of the 30 60 line?
500
This is the date of the Battle of Cowpens.
What is January 17, 1781 the date of?
500
Four score and seven years ago.
How did the Gettysburg Address start?
500
These are the parts of the Preamble. (all of it)
What is "We the people, in order to form to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America."
500
The reason why the Southerners needed slaves.
What are cotton Plantations?
500
The five points of the compromise of 1850.
What are the fugitive slave act, New Mexico Borders, California as a free state, prohibition of slavery in the capitol, and NM and Utah as unrestricted territory.