Presidents and Washington DC
Government
America in the Early 1800's
American Civil War
Civics and the Constitution
100
The minimum age a person must be in order to be eligible to become president of the US.
What is 35?
100
The highest court in the US.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
The name used to refer to the forced removal and relocation of tribes including the Cherokee.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100
he name given to the Union military strategy during the American Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
The first ten Amendments to the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
He was assassinated at Ford's Theater in April, 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The number of Justices who sit on the Supreme Court when it is filled.
What is 9?
200
Meaning “obvious fate” this idea was used to justify Westward Expansion by claiming that the US had the divine right to spread over the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The first state to secede after Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
200
The Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
300
This former Union general became the 18th President of the US.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
300
The number of Representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
300
This major engineering feat revolutionized travel and was completed in 1896.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
The bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This Amendment lists the rights of people accused of a crime, including the right to a lawyer.
What is the 6th Amendment?
400
True or False: A president once had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who had a specially-build tree house.
What is true?
400
The three branches of the US Government.
What are the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
400
The network of escape routes and hideouts used by African American to escape the slave-holding states of the South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
The group of soldiers who served in the American Civil War who are memorialized by this.
Who are the 5th Massachusetts and Robert Gould Shaw?
400
This Amendment says that the military or government cannot force you to have soldiers live in your home during peacetime.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
500
The White House is on this street.
What is Pennsylvania Ave?
500
These two things determine how many Electoral College Votes each state receives.
What is the number of House Representative seats plus the two Senate seats?
500
The two states that joined the US under a compromise in 1820.
What are Maine and Missouri?
500
A document signed by President Lincoln on New Year's Day 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The year in which the most recent Constitutional Amendment was ratified.
What is 1992?