Traditions carried out by the presidency; began with George Washington.
What are precedents?
100
The amendment that protects the citizens from cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
100
The year the U.S. doubled in size.
What is 1803?
100
Major features of the Reconstruction period was that new laws and constitutional amendments attempted to provide _________________ and opportunities for blacks.
What are equal rights?
100
Nineteenth president from 1877-1881.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
200
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
200
Protects citizens from quartering soldiers--allowing soldiers to take over and live in one's house.
What is the Third Amendment?
200
Known as "Old Hickory," he won the election for president in 1828.
What was Andrew Jackson?
200
The Era of Reconstruction led to more rights for this group of people.
Who are African Americans?
200
A person who works the fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent; repays the loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
What is a sharecropper?
300
A case that was brought to the Supreme Court by black lawsuits to challenge the legality of segregation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was "equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Constitutional amendment that made all people born in the United States (including former slaves) citizens
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
The change from an agrarian (agricultural) society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the United States around 1800
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The most long-lasting victory for civil rights achieved during Reconstruction was the ratification of these amendments to the United States Constitution.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
300
An 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote to hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy. Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
The right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
400
Ratification of this amendment had an impact life in the United States by outlawing slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
People who went to California in the Gold Rush of the same year.
Who were the San Francisco '49ers?
400
Organization run by the army to care, protect, and provide social services for southern blacks after the Civil War.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
400
A wagon that people used to travel to Oregon.
What was a Prairie Schooner?
500
Congress established a federal court system with thirteen courts and three circuit courts to serve the nation. State laws would remain, but the federal courts would have the power to reverse state decision.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
500
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
500
To spread over and possess the continent God has given.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
He believed that the Union should be restored as quickly as possible after the Civil War. He offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who would swear allegiance to the United States. The Radical Republicans were opposed to this.
What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
500
Cherokee tribe were forcibly removed from Georgia under the provision of the Treaty of Indian Springs along this route.