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CONSTITUTION
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CIVIL WAR
RECONSTRUCTION
RANDOM
100
Executive
What is the branch of government responsible for carrying out the laws?
100
Unalienable
What specific word is used to describe the natural rights of all men that are listed in the Declaration of Independence?
100
To stop goods from leaving or reaching the South
What is the Union's main purpose of blockading southern seaports?
100
Wade-Davis Bill
What bill proposed by Congress wanted stricter policy toward Reconstruction than Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
100
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
What battles were the turning points in the Civil War?
200
Amendment
What is a change or addition to the constitution?
200
Declare war, trade freely, form alliances
What are three powers did the states declare they held in the final section of the Declaration of Independence?
200
Emancipation Proclamation
What freed enslaved people only in area that were fighting the Union?
200
Ku Klux Klan
What is an example efforts that limited the freedoms of African Americans during Reconstruction?
200
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
What is three of five states that were carved out of the Northwest Territory?
300
King George III
Who is blamed for all the grievances that are listed in the Declaration of Independence?
300
He was willing to fight and take chances
What made Grant a successful Civil War general?
300
Grant
Who became President at the end of Reconstruction?
300
Supreme Court case that discuss an issue of slavery
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
Guarantee individual rights
What is the basic purpose of the Bill of Rights?
400
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
400
Nursing
What particular professional became more open to women during the Civil War?
400
Radicals
Who were the Republicans that wanted "hard" Reconstruction?
400
Led to segregation of of the races.
What is Jim Crow?
500
southern states
What is the region that benefited from 3/5 Compromise?
500
People
According to the Declaration of Independence who gives government its power?
500
Grandfather clause
What provision said voters did not have to take a literacy test if his father was eligible to vote?
500
15th Amendment
What amendment states that all people must be treated equally?
500
Appomattox Court House
Where Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virigina?