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Men going against the norm
The Constitution
Antebellum and War, and Reconstruction
Voting and Elections
Important statements
100
This president viewed the National Bank as unconstitutional and placed all federal money in pet banks, causing a national economic depression
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
This is the name for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
After the Civil War, many blacks took jobs as these. They would work on land owned by white men who were looking for cheap labor.
What is sharecroppers?
100
This group of people received the right to vote in the 15th amendment?
Who are African-American men?
100
Would have freed all Confederate slaves "all persons held as slaves....shall be free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This man did not agree with the high tariffs imposed in 1828 and encouraged South Carolina to nullify the tariff laws in their state.
Who is John Calhoun?
200
This power was granted to Congress in the Constitution in order to correct the primary economic weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the power to tax?
200
The purpose of this era of American history was to rebuild the physical, emotional, and political elements of the United States.
What is Reconstruction?
200
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
What is the 19th amendment?
200
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal" This Seneca Falls Convention statement was patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
What is Declaration of Sentiments?
300
This man was the primary president during the "Era of Good Feelings" as America experienced relatively few economic and diplomatic issues.
Who is James Monroe?
300
This agreement from the Constitutional Convention protected the interests of the small states and the large states when it came to representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This amendment, passed in 1868, gave the newly freed slaves equal citizenship rights
What is the 14th amendment?
300
This was the primary issue during the 1832 election between Clay and Jackson?
What is renewal of the National Bank charter?
300
This speech, patterned after the Declaration of Independence, supported the ideas of self-government and human rights."Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
In the early republic, it was the norm to support the high tariffs to help Northern industrialists. However, this man reached out to the common farmers and opposed high tariffs, thus being supported by Democratic-Republicans.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
While there are age requirements in order to be a member of the House, the Senate, or to become president, this member of the judicial branch has no official age requirements according to the Constitution.
What is Supreme Court Justice?
400
The purpose of these people was to end slavery?
What is abolitionists?
400
If you are given the right to suffrage, you have the right to do this.
What is vote?
400
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" - This statement would balance the power of state and federal governments. It is found here.
What is the 10th amendment?
500
This man established the idea of judicial review with his historical decision to declare a federal law unconstitutional in Marbury v Madison.
Who is John Marshall?
500
This group can propose an amendment to the Constitution?
What is Congress or state legislatures?
500
This organization was created after the Civil War in order to provide assistance to former slaves. It included establishing schools, hospitals, and job for blacks.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
This president won the disputed election of 1876 when he agreed to remove all military generals from Reconstruction in the South.
Who is Rutherford Hayes?
500
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." — to encourage generous treatment of former Confederates and the unity of the future nation, this man included this statement in his second inaugural address
Who is Abraham Lincoln?