Constitution
Name 5 rights guaranteed in Bill of Rights
Acceptable answers- freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, petition, right to an attorney, due process, habeas corpus, due process rights, no cruel and unusual punishment.
Name one abolitionist who escaped slavery
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Purvis.
Name the three Reconstruction amendments and what they did.
13th- abolished slavery
14th- defined natural born citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under law
15th- Gave black men the right to vote.
Name three locations "new immigrants" were coming from.
Acceptable answers- Italy, Poland, Ireland, Russia, China, etc.
Factors that motivated people to leave their home country, and factors that motivated people to move to the US
Push and pull factors
Someone who in 1787 referred to the proposed Constitution as “horribly defective, horribly frightful....it leans toward monarchy” most likely was (1 point)
Antifederalist
Ulysses S Grant
The organization that worked to educate freedpeople
The Freedmen's Bureau
The person who coined the term "Gilded Age"
Mark Twain
The Emancipation Proclamation freed people in this terroritory
States in rebellion
Name two concessions that were made during the Constitutional Convention to appease slave owners
3/5 compromise and the Electoral College.
Kansas
President after Lincoln who was a southerner and a white supremacist
Andrew Johnson
Name three factors that led to the Second Industrial Revolution
Acceptable answers- Natural Resources, railroads, pro business government, ample workers,etc
The group posed the greatest organized resistance to Reconstruction governments in the South
KKK
The Father of the Constitution
James Madison
Day Three of the Battle of Gettysburg when confederate troops charged up hill and were defeated.
Pickett's Charge
The Supreme Court case that decided segregation was constitutional
Plessy vs Ferguson
Location (town name and state) that flooded after Andrew Carnegie lowered the dam for his South Fork Fishing Club
Jonestown, Pennsylvania
Essays written to convince people to support the new Constitution.
The Federalist Papers
The amount of amendments in the Constitution
27
Name the poet who wrote "O Captain, my Captain"
Walt Whitman
This President was elected as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B Hayes
Industrialist that Andrew Carnegie hired to be the chairman of Carnegie Steel
Henry Frick
Country that donated the Statue of Liberty to the US
France