It's All About Compromise
The fraction that represented how much a slave would be worth in terms of counting population.
What is 3/5?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The words that start the Preamble of the Constitution.
Two common tactics that were used to bar blacks from voting.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and/or violence?
The case which determined that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional and stated that an enslaved person was not made free by traveling into free territory.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
A word which did not actually appear in the Constitution and was substituted with the word "others"
What is "slave"?
The single branch that was created by the Articles of Confederation.
The three branches of the US government as laid out by the Constitution.
What are the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches?
The percentage of people who could vote at the time of George Washington's presidency.
What is 3%?
The name of the Supreme Court's power to evaluate the constitutionality of laws and executive orders.
What is judicial review?
What is the Electoral College?
A system of government in which there are two levels: a state level and a federal level.
What is federalism?
The terms given to actions taken by one branch which restrict the power of another branch.
What are checks and balances?
The march through Selma, Alabama that ended in police violence, which was then televised and showed the horrors of Jim Crow to the rest of the nation.
What was Bloody Sunday?
What is free speech?
The compromise between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan that created two houses of Congress, one with equal representation and one with proportional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
Alt: What is the Connecticut Plan?
One of the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is weak centralized government, lack of a military, and/or lack of a national court system?
The branch whose powers are laid out in Article I of the Constitution.
What is the Legislative Branch?
One of the primary narrators in the documentary who tells of her personal experiences with the governor's mansion and her grandmother's experience with first-time voting.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
A terror tactic used by the KKK, which was protected by the Supreme Court in two separate cases.
What is cross burning?
The numbers of years for which Congress was banned from prohibiting the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is 20 years?
The rebellion which demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, specifically in terms of not having a military.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The number of articles (sections) in the Constitution.
What is 7?
The president who signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who was President Lyndon B. Johnson?
A court case which overturned a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and was discussed in the documentary All In).
What is Shelby v. Holder?