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The Constitution
Branches of Government
Social Reform
American Civil War
Potpourri
100
How many senators does each state get?
What is 2
100
Who is was the first head of the executive branch?
Who is George Washington
100
When was social reform most popular?
What is the second awakening/ antebellum
100
Name one cause of the Civil War
What is Licolns election, geography, federalism, free states v. slave states
100
Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
How many rights are in the Bill of Rights?
What is 10
200
List the 3 branches of government
What is Judicial, Legislative, and Executive
200
What is the name of the movement that was centered on effects of achoholism on families?
What is temperance
200
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
Who was Clara Barton?
What is a famous Union nurse that worked on the battlefront
300
What are the 5 freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment?
What are speech, religion, press, protest of government, and peaceful assembly.
300
What determines how many representatives are in each state?
What is the population of the state?
300
Name two movements that were recognized during the social reform period.
What is women's rights, abolition, education, prisons, temperence
300
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?
What is Fort Sumter
300
Who was the president after Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
What is the opening line of the preamble?
What is "We the people of the United States"
400
What is a veto and who can issue it?
What is rejecting a bill by the President
400
Where was the Declaration of Sentiments written?
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
400
What was the significance of the Massechussetts 54th Regiment?
What is the first all African American unit to fight in the Civil War
400
What are the requirenments for becoming the President?
What is you have to be at least 35 years old, you have to have been born on American soil, a resident in America for at least 14 years.
500
Name four people who signed the constitution
Who are George Washington, James Madison Jr. , Alexander Hamilton, and Ben Franklin, etc...
500
What are three checks or balances between the branches of government.
What are the executive branch approves laws written by the legislative and appoints justices to the Supreme Court, the legistlative branch can impeach the President and approve the justices appointed by the President, the judicial branch oversees impeachment trials and determine if laws are contitutional or not.
500
Name 3 modern reform movements
What is livable wage, black lives matter, immigration
500
Where were three places the Battle of Antietam took place?
What is a sunken road, Antietam Creek, and a corn field
500
What state did Alexander Hamilton represent in congress?
What is New York.