Amendment that states that the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race or color
What is 15th Amendment
100
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg Address
100
An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
What is Blockades
100
A member or supporter of the Republican Party.
What is Republican
100
A supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
What is Sovereign
200
Amendment that was ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
What is 14th Amendment
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.
What is Compromise
200
The act of cancelling something.
What is Nullification
200
A league or alliance of confederate states.
What is Confederacy
200
The action or process of making or re-making.
What is Reconstruction
300
The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
What is States Rights
300
Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum
300
The restriction of interest to a narrow sphere, undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
What is Sectionalism
300
A member or supporter of the Democratic party.
What is Democratic
300
A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
What is Slave
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!The first ten amendments to the US Constitution that was ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing rights such as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
What is Bill of Rights
400
Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is Postbellum
400
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
What is Tarriff
400
A withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is Secede
400
Someone who holds slaves.
What is Slave Owner
500
Amendment that was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the United States
What is 13th Amendment
500
A war between citizens of the same country.
What is Civil War
500
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.