13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment accomplished this.
What is abolished/ended slavery?
One of the 4 clauses written in the 14th Amendment.
What is the citizenship clause, the privileges or immunities clause, the due process clause, or the equal protection clause?
On May 20, 1862, this president passed the Homestead Act.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
The federal government gave each state this amount of land.
What is 30,000 acres?
The Pacific Railway Act resulted in this outcome.
What is provided Federal government land and loans for the building of the first transcontinental railroad?
This man was president during the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 14th Amendment was passed despite this President’s opposition to it in 1868.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
You could pay $10 for up to 160 acres of land if you promised to live on it and improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 accomplished this.
What is it set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts”?
The Pacific Railway Act was signed into law by this President.
Who is Lincoln?
One legal/economic side effect that came as a result of the 13th Amendment's ratification.
What are either Jim Crow laws or Sharecropping?
Under Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Supreme Court ruled against holding whites-only political primary elections, supported by this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Homestead Act developed the American West and spurred economic growth.
How did the Homestead Act impact the nation?
This very popular college campus located in Texas was created as a result of land from this act.
What is Texas A&M?
The Pacific Railway Act impacted the nation through this.
What is the connection between the Eastern and Western states?
One group/political party that supported the passage of the 13th Amendment.
What are Republicans and/or Border State Democrats.
This event which almost exactly a year ago today (January 7th, 2022) brought discussions about the insurrection passage in the 14th Amendment.
What is the January 6th Insurrection?
These people didn’t like the Homestead Act because they thought it would deplete the labor market and would increase wages.
Who are the Southerners?
This many colleges were funded by this act.
What is 69?
This change to the economy occurred as a result of the Pacific Railway Act.
This group was against the passage of the 13th Amendment.
What are Southern Democrats?
Name a supreme court case supported by the 14th or 15th Amendments.
Examples are Roe v. Wade, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, etc.
These people took advantage of the Homestead Act because they were able to own land in their name.
Who are the Women?
This is why the Morrill Land Grant Act was passed.
What is it made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens?
These demographics were impacted due to the Pacific Railway Act.
What are either Chinese or Irish immigrants who settled in America?