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GOVERNMENT
LEGISLATURE
SOCIAL REFORM
CIVIL WAR
RECONSTRUCTION
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What are the three branches of government
Executive Legislative Judicial
100
What is a bill
A proposal for a law
100
Give 3 examplea of reform attempted during the antebellum
Temperance Womens rights Religion Abololition Education Workers rights Prison reform
100
What were the two sides of the Civil War
The Union and the Confederation
200
What is the excecutive branch responsible for
Enforcing laws
200
How many ammendments are there in the bill of rights
10
200
Who wanted to be allied with the south during the Civil War
England France
300
What is judicial branch responsible for
Judging court cases
300
A person is told they cannot carry a gun by a police officer. What amendment makes the police officer wrong.
The 2nd ammendment
300
What is temperance
The prohibitation of alchohol
300
Who was the president during the Civil War and how did he influence the Civil War
Abarham Lincoln was president He issued the emancipation proclamation He commanded the military He wrote the gettysburg adress
300
What was share cropping and why was it important to redonstruction
Sharecropping is a system by which the owner of farmland can rent their land to a tennant. The tennant would recieve a share of the crops produced from the land in return. Sharecropping was important to reconstruction because it was a job oppertunity for freedmen.
400
Define "Electoral Collage"
The process in which each state gets a certain number of votes based on the ammount of congressmen and senators it has
400
A police officer enters the house of a drug addict with a warrant to search for drugs. While searching, the police officer finds a body. What ammendment says the police officer needs another warrant to persecute the drug adict.
The 4th ammendment
400
At the Senica Falls convention people gathered and wrote a petition for womens rights, this is an example of what type of strategy
Colective Action
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What was one major cause of the Civil War
Different geography Different views on slavery The south had no voice Abarham Lincoln became president
400
What was president Johnsons plan for reconstruction
President Johnson's plan was to make an amnesty proclamation which revoked the land of every confederate soldier. President Johnson's plan was more geared toward punishing the whites than helping the blacks.
500
Define federalism
Federalism is when there is a federal and state government
500
Identify the policy or act this refers to: The forced migration of native americans from their homeland
The indian removal act
500
What was the role of women during the antebellum
House Chores
500
Who was the confederate president
Ulysses S Grant
500
What impacts did reconstruction have.
African Americans began to get freedom and more rights, but they were still not respected by the south or the judicial branch.