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This founding document begins with "We the people"

The Constitution

100

This amendment is the right to free speech

The first amendment

100

This President wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves

Abraham Lincoln

100

This branch consists of the President of the United States

Executive branch

100

This term describes the idea that colonists' God given duty was to expand West 

Manifest Destiny

200

The three regions of the thirteen colonies are

New England, Middle colonies, South colonies


200

This amendment is the right to bear arms

2nd amendment

200

This person famously signed his name very large on the bottom of the Constitution

John Hancock

200

This branch is in charge of determining whether or not a law is constitutional

Judicial branch


200
This long walk happened after the Indian Removal Act

Trail of Tears

300

This document contains 10 amendments that give us our liberties

The Bill of Rights

300

This amendment allows you to deny any questioning without a lawyer present

Fifth amendment

300
This President signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830
Andrew Jackson
300

This branch can veto laws

Executive

300
Mexico lost 55 percent of its territory because of the signing of this document

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

The problem with the Articles of Confederation was

There was a weak central government

400

This amendment protects you from any cruel or unusual punishment

8th amendment
400
This president was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson


400

This branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate

Legislative branch

400
In the Compromise of 1850, one act decided to give popular sovereignty to these two states

New Mexico and Utah

500

This event showed that the Articles of Confederations were too weak

Shay's Rebellion

500

This amendment allows the states' to have rights that are not given to the federal government 

10th amendment

500

This person is known as the 'Father of the Constitution'

James Madison

500

The House of Representatives has ______ amount of members

435


500

The Selma to Montgomery March resulted in the Voting Rights of 1965 Act to be passed by this president. 

Lyndon B. Johnson