Bill of Rights & Reform Trivia
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Double Jeopardy
Due Process
Eminent Domain
Self-Incrimination
5th Amendment
100
Name the triggers words for the following:
-- "Beginning of Civil War"
-- "end of Civil War"
Ft. Sumter (Confederate Attack)
Appomattox Court House (Grant surrenders to Lee)
100
This map represents...?
Louisiana Purchase
100
These topics are key issues that led to the outbreak of the.......
1. Sectionalism
2. Tariff Disputes
3. States’ Rights
4. Slavery
The Civil War
100
This is an example of which of the following principles of government?
Separation of Powers
100
Combined both Virginia & New Jersey plans, creating a bicameral legislature
Great Compromise
200
-- Idea introduced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
-- individualism
-- connecting spirituality with nature
Transcendentalism
200
Which Reconstruction legislative goal helped provide medical care, food, and education to newly freed individuals?
Freedman's Bureau
200
What was one effect of the women's rights movement?
Passage of the 19th Amendment
(Grants women's suffrage)
200
This was created to maintain the balance between slave/free states
Missouri Compromise
200
These examples illustrate which principle of govt?
EX 1: President breaks the law = Congress investigates and impeaches the President
EX 2: If Congress tries to pass a law that is unconstitutional… = they can be overturned by the:
– Supreme Court
– or vetoed (rejected) by the president
Checks and Balances
200
A
300
Name this invention !
Cause= More efficient way to separate seeds from cotton fibers
Effect= Led to development of plantation system and expansion of slavery
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
300
Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in what areas?
Confederate controlled areas only
300
What was the orderly process for admitting states into the Union?
Northwest Ordinance
300
What was the final Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
Slaves were property and not considered citizens
- We had no right to sue
300
This picture illustrates which principle of government?
Federalism (10th Amendment)
300
Boston Tea Party ------> ________ --------> 1st Continental Congress
Intolerable Acts
400
Protects people accused of crimes
EX: Miranda Rights, Speedy Trial
6th Amendment
400
What was one main effect of the Battle of Antietam?
Lincoln's confidence to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
400
Which reform movement matches the following characteristics:
- John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman
- Fight against slavery
- EFFECT = 13th Amendment
Abolitionist Movement
400
EFFECT 1= caused an event known as "Bleeding Kansas"
EFFECT 2: allowed slavery to expand into territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Derived from John Locke's social theory contract: "consent of the governed"
-- "We the People"
Popular Sovereignty
400
D
500
Federalism and States Rights
10th Amendment
500
What are the 3 Reconstruction Amendments ?
13th: abolished slavery
14th: citizenship rights
15th: gives black men the right to vote
500
1) Happened under Madison's presidency
2) The cause of this event was British impressment
War of 1812
500
Name 4 characteristics of the Compromise of 1850
-- Cali/ free state
--popular sovereignty
--Fugitive Slave Act
--No slave trade = Washington DC
500
Led a reform movement to improve prisons and mental health
Dorothea Dix
500
1) involved the establishment of colonies to provide raw materials to the "mother country" and serve as markets for manufactured goods
2) a nation's wealth was directly linked to the amount of gold and silver it possessed
Mercantilism
600
Minimal government interference, private property ownership, entrepreneurship, and healthy competition are all characteristics of what economic system?
Free Enterprise System
600
What were 2 effects that happened after the Siege of Vicksburg ?
Effect 1= Gained control of MS River
Effect 2= Split Confederacy in half
600
Match the following trigger words with its correct Supreme Court Case:
1) Judicial Review
2) Regulate interstate commerce
3) Necessary and Proper Clause
1) Marbury v. Madison
2) Gibbons v. Ogden
3) McCulloch v. Maryland
600
What is one main effect that happens after Lincoln's 1860 election?
South Carolina (secedes) withdraws from the Union
600
"elected representatives"
EX: voting
Republicanism
600
What caused the reasons for the growth of representative government?
Distance from Britian