Government and civics
a set of fundamental rules that determine how a country or state is run
What is the constitution?
He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This president led the Union during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He created the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This system splits power between state and national governments.
What is federalism?
This war gained independence from Great Britain
What is the American Revolution?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term means one company controls an industry
What is a monopoly?
This case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first plan of government for the U.S. was called this
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These amendments ended slavery and gave citizenship and voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This system paid workers low wages under poor conditions
What is industrial capitalism?
This woman refused to give up her bus seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This branch of government interprets laws
What is the judicial branch?
This event protested British taxes by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These Southern laws enforced segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This group fought for workers’ rights and better conditions.
What are labor unions?
This act banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or gender
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This principle means no one is above the law, not even leaders.
What is rule of law?
This principle means no one is above the law, not even leaders.
What is rule of law?
This period rebuilt the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This act broke up monopolies in the late 1800s
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This act protected voting rights for African Americans.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?