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100

When you separate the _______ from the constitution, you are distorting the original intent

Declaration of Independence 

100

Crowded buildings usually unsanitary are called 

Tenements 

100

What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

the Bill or Rights

100

What is suffrage 

the right to vote 

100

Who made the cotton gin

Eli Whitney 

100

Which branch of government interprets the laws?

Judicial Branch

100
George Washington was general in this war.

Revolutionary War

100
The branch responsible for enforcing laws!

Executive

200

who wrote against the poor living conditions

  Jacob Riis 

200

What was the benefit of the Louisiana purchase 

They doubled in size and got more recourses

200

Name the unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration:

Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness

200

Why was the cotton gin an important factor in slavery 

It helped produce more cotton clothing which made the whites make more cotton fields to have more slaves 

200

the rights to life, liberty and property

natural rights

200

colonists who banded together to protest the stamp act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s

Sons of Liberty

200

The Anti-Federalists insisted on this before signing the Constitution

Bill of Rights

200

Based on the U.S. Constitution, the government is run by

The people

300

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

July, 4th. 1776

300

What was the Battle of Sarratoga

a major American victory in the American Revolutionary War that was a turning point in the war and helped secure the United States' independence from Britain 

300

What document states, "All men are created equal"?

Declaration of Independence

300

This amendment guarantees the right to protest

1st Amendment

300

This branch is responsible for making laws

Legislative Branch

300

Which Native American tribe came from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota area? 

Sioux 

300

What was lassiez faire

the idea that the government should not intervene in people’s businesses 

300

The term of a Supreme Court Justice

Life

400

Ended the American Revolutionary War 

Treaty of Paris 

400

 What was the Boston massacre 

a fight between the colonists and British soldiers. Which killed some people

400

What was the reason for reconstruction 

To rebuild the south 

400

Who made the first car 

Henry ford 

400

a party that supported the common man, and was led by Thomas Jefferson....

Anti-Federalist (democratic-republicans)

400

What free state was created with the Missouri Compromise?

Maine

400

What were literacy tests 

A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skill their ability to read and write


400

The French and Indian War was won by this country

Britain

500

What was manifest destiny 

that they were destined to expand to the west and spread democracy and capitalism 

500

Supreme Court justice known for strengthening the power of the government through his supreme court decisions.... 

John Marshall

500

Why did president Andrew Johnson get impeached 

Because he removed Edwin Stanton from being secretary of war without approval from the senate 

500

What were the goals of labor unions

Improve working conditions, better pay, reasonable hours

500

what was the KKK

a group of white ppl who bring terror and kill blacks

500

how was it determined wether it was a free state or a slave state

The 3060o line

500

The Which treaty ended the American Revolution?

Treaty of Paris 1783

500

a land act that established a process by which settled territories would become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, it also banned slavery in the expanding north

Northwest Ordinance of 1787