Important People
The 1st president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This war was fought between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
What is the Civil War?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The main set of rules for the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The United States paid this amount for the Louisiana Territory.
Civil rights means people should have these.
What are equal rights?
This was a time when people began using machines to make goods.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
He fought segregation and discrimination with peaceful protest.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?
This side wanted to end slavery.
This branch of government enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The Preamble is the first part of the Constitution and starts with this.
What is "We the People"?
This is the year the Louisiana Territory was purchased.
What is 1803?
This was the separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
These tools helped workers make goods faster.
What are machines?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This side wanted to keep slavery.
What is the South (Confederacy)?
This branch interprets the laws and makes sure they follow the constitution.
The first 10 amendments are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This city was very important for trade and was part of the deal.
What is New Orleans?
This word means being treated unfairly because of who you are.
What is discrimination?
This invention used steam to power machines.
What is the steam engine?
She served as an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
Many enslaved people worked on these large farms.
Each branch of the U.S. federal government has its own distinct responsibilities.
What is the separation of powers?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These explorers traveled to learn about land, rivers, animals, and the people.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
These people worked to change unfair laws.
Who are activists?
These inventions helped people travel and move goods faster.
What are railroads?
He purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This group of people worked to end slavery.
Who are abolitionist?
This is the first step in making a law.
What is introducing a bill?
This amendment says all people born in the United States are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Louisiana Purchase helped the United State do this.
What is double in size?
This law helped protect voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Many children and women worked for less pay in dangerous factories.
What are poor work conditions?
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This document helped free enslaved people in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is the president's job when he approves a law.
What is signing a bill?
This amendment gave black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Whoever controlled Louisiana also controlled this.
What is the Port of New Orleans?
This law ended segregation in many public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
Louisiana farmers used machines to help grow and harvest this crop.
What is cotton?
He helped protect and fight for the Native American's land.
Who is Chief Sitting Bull?
This is the year slavery was abolished.
What is 1865?
This means each branch can limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The Louisiana Territory land stretched all the was to these mountains.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
This law made segregation in schools illegal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This river was important because it helped import and export goods.
What is the Mississippi River?