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UnCivil War
Religiousity
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100
The Natural Rights that John Locke believed all people are born with
What is Life, liberty and property?
100
Free exercise clause, and the establishment clause are found in this amendment.
What is the first amendment?
100
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
100
This religious movement preached that all men are equal in the eyes of God.
What is the Great Awakening?
100
This philosophical movement led to colonists questioning the power of King George III, statesmen concluding that individual citizens have natural freedoms and people looking for answers to social questions through the use of science.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan came together to be called....
What is the Great Compromise?
200
THe clause in the Bill of Rights that states that the United States government cannot create a church.
What is the Establishment Clause?
200
This amendment ended slavery or involunatary servitude.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Which amendment grants American citizens freedome of religion?
What is the First Amendment?
200
The debate over how states would be represented in Congress was settled by this compromise.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
Certain states did not ratify (approve) the Constitution until this was added to it
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This amendment protects your right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
300
This amendment granted citizenship to all African Americans.
What is 14th Amendment?
300
Which religious group moved westward to escape religious persecution? (Also Mitt Romney's Religion)
Who are the Mormons?
300
This author of the Declaration of Independence was inspired by John Locke.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This future president was leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war?
Who is George Washington?
400
This amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is 4th Amendment?
400
Before the civil war, slaves were considered property. What compromise was agreed to count the slave population?
What is the 3/5 compromise?
400
This former president has been the only Catholic president
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This man supported ratification of the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
From which of the following Enlightenment thinkers did the Declaration of Independence adopt many of its principles?
John Locke
500
This amendment guarantess a right to a speedy trial.
What is 6th amendment?
500
The era after the Civil War is known as..
What is Reconstruction?
500
People who do not believe in God are called this.
Who are atheist?
500
The main criticism for this document was that it did not give enough power to the federal(central) government.
What are the Articles of Condederation?