The Constitution
This is the group that wrote the founding document.
What is white, wealthy, males?
The outcome of this election led to troops being withdrawn from the South. This effectively ended Reconstruction and the new freedoms that were guaranteed to those formerly enslaved.
What is the election of 1876?
Name a group of people who were not in the room when the Constitution was first written.
Who are formerly enslaved men or women, women, Native Americans, or free people from different races?
This is the name the Seneca people had for George Washington because of the violence he brought upon them for his benefit.
What is "Town Destroyer"?
This invention led to a substantial increase in the slave trade.
What is the cotton gin?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
What was a way that those in power tried to deny people their voting rights?
What is a poll tax or literacy test?
When lawmakers attempt to correct or improve the Constitution, this is the name of the process.
What is amend?
This Native American leader tried unsuccessfully to unite tribes to defend their lands against The United States.
Who is Tecumseh?
What is cotton?
This amendment protected voting rights for all males.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Name of laws that instituted segregation into the South in the late 1800's.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
Name one protection from the First Amendment.
What is freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, right to petition, freedom of religion, freedom from establishment of religion, or freedom of the press?
This president refused to enforce the ruling of The U.S. Supreme Court, that stated Georgia had no right to interfere with the land of the Cherokee people.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Name the formerly enslaved journalist that escaped to Canada to start a newspaper to shed light on the inhumanity of slavery.
Who is Henry Bibb?
This amendment extended citizenship to all African-American males.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
In the poem that we read in class about the train and Jim Crow laws, formerly enslaved people had to sit in this type of car on a train. Describe the car.
What is smoke-filled, without light, and small in size?
How does the Eighth Amendment protect citizens?
This treaty gave land in Ohio, Indiana, and the Chicago River in downtown Chicago from the Native peoples to White settlement.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
Which historical event ends slavery forever in the United States?
What is the Civil War?
While women were allowed to vote with this amendment, this still excluded some females from the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the treatment of Southern Christians?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Double Jeopardy?
Given name of the trail for Native Americans that were forced off their land to head west. Many died on the journey to their new home.
What is the Trail of Tears?
What is the term given to those that fought against slavery, either through their actions or words.
What is resistance?