Women of Influence
Battle Sites
US Constitution & Amendments
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Big Ideas
100

She helped rescue over 700 slaves from Southern captivity as the conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

100

After this battle, Gen. George Washington accepted the surrender of British Gen. Cornwallis, thus ending the US War of Independence.

Yorktown

100

This amendment permits freedom of the press

1st Amendment

100

He led the Union Army against the South in the US Civil War. 

Ulysses S. Grant

100

The concept that drove Americans to settle the West, as if God wanted them to. 

Manifest Destiny

200

Two famous suffragists attended the Seneca Falls Convention and got the ball rolling for women's rights. Name one of them.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony

200

This fort in Baltimore harbor survived a British naval bombardment as proof through the night that our flag was still there. 

Ft. McHenry

200

This amendment says you can't be forced to testify against yourself in court. 

5th amendment

200

He is considered the Father of the US Constitution and served as the 4th president. 

James Madison

200
At the start of the Civil War, this was Lincoln's original #1 reason for fighting the war and not letting the South secede. 

Preserve the Union

300

She was the native who gave life-saving advice and guidance to Lewis and Clark.

Sacajawea

300

The site of the worst single day battle in US military history the ended in a draw between the North and the South. 

Antietam

300

Article 1 of the Constitution created this branch of government. 

Legislative

300

He wondered why any former slave should celebrate the 4th of July.

Frederick Douglass

300

Jefferson believed it to be self-evident that all humans are endowed by their Creator at their birth with certain things that government could not ever take away. 

Unalienable rights

or 

Life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness

400

While enslaved, she endured severe beatings but finally escaped the South with her infant daughter. She because a vocal abolitionist and orator. 

Sojourner Truth

400

With the help of Tennessee sharp-shooters, Choctaw braves, pirates, and townspeople, this American colonel defeated a British Army in 1814 while defending this town.

New Orleans

400

This amendment prohibits excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment.

8th Amendment

400

His Albany Plan was the first attempt to unite the 13 colonies into one collective unit for self-defense. 

Ben Franklin

400

This is the one great power the Supreme Court has. The SC gave itself this power because of their ruling in Marbury vs. Madison. 

Judicial Review

500

She was the wife of the second president, was his best friend and closest adviser, and had a mind as sharp as her husband. 

Abigail Adams

500

This riverside town is where John Brown seized an armory hoping to arm slaves and start an uprising.

Harper's Ferry, WV

500

This amendment requires the police to have a warrant approved by a judge it they want to search your home.

4th Amendment

500

At Valley Forge, two different European aristocrats gave help to the US Continental Army. Name one.

The Marquis de Lafayette

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

500

Jefferson argued in the Declaration that governments are established by citizens and get their power from what? How did he word it?

From the consent of the governed.