Random ?'s
The name of the meeting where the Constitution was drafted (& many debates happened!)
Constitutional Convention
State level laws that restrict the rights of African Americans
Black Codes/Jim Crow
Establishes judicial review
Marbury v Madison
What is the 13th Amendment?
Suffragists were upset over the passage of this Amendment
15th Amendment
What did Federalists & Anti-Federalists fight over?
Whether the Bill of Rights should be added to the Constitution
This was an organization that helped African Americans with clothing, jobs, and education after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
Ruled that Native land could be sovereign
Worcester v Georgia
What is the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship for African Americans
This law provided 160 acres to those who did not bear arms against the US
Homestead Act
This document was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony and advocated for women's rights
Declaration of Sentiments
The name given to the time period of Reconstruction where Republicans harshly punished the South
Radical Reconstruction
TWO court cases that strengthen the power of the federal government
What is the 15th Amendment?
Voting rights for black men
This law stopped the immigration of Chinese to America
Chinese Exclusion Acts
This law strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, banned the slave trade in D.C., and allowed Utah & New Mexico to vote on slavery by popular sovereignty (written by Henry Clay)
Compromise of 1850
The name given to a person from the North who moves down South to take advantage of the Chaos
Carpetbaggers
Ruled that "separate was equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
List THREE ways white Southerners attempted to restrict the rights of African Americans
KKK, literacy tests, poll taxes
This law allowed the federal government to break up Native land out West
Dawes Act
1. The name of the rebellion that showed the weakness of the AOC.
2. The name of the rebellion that proved the Constitution was strong.
1. Shays' Rebellion
2. Whiskey Rebellion
The name of a white Southerner who AGREES with Radical Reconstruction
Scalawag
Ruled that slavery could not be limited to below the 36 30 line
Scott v Sanford
This group of politicians advocated for rights & equality for African Americans
Radical Republicans
The policy/belief that Native born white Americans are better than immigrants
Nativism