Constitution
The US Government was set up to be balanced between three separate branches - sometimes called "checks and balances". The three sections of government are the Executive (President), The Legislature (Congress) and the
What is the Judiciary (Supreme and Federal Courts)?
The fifth amendment states this
What is you cannot self incriminate?
The USA bought this huge amount of land off the French for pennies and acre under President Thomas Jefferson, doubling the size of the USA.
What is Louisiana?
The driving force behind the conflict of the American Civil War was
What is slavery?
After the American Civil War the federal government took control of former rebel states. At the same time it set up these to help former slaves to learn and earn a living
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The Bill of Rights are the original 10 amendments to the US Constitution. The first amendment protects the right to
What is free speech, assembly and religion?
One of these is enough to answer.The 14th amendment was passed after the Civil War, it gave former slaves this
What is equal rights?
When Texas joined the US it resulted in this conflict
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Republican party won the 1860 election under this leader
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Reconstruction was ended in 1877 by President Rutherford B Hayes as a way of getting support for his election. This began the period we now call this, which lasted until the 1960s.
What is Segregation?
The Federal Congress is made up of two houses, The Senate and the
What is the House of Representatives?
The 19th amendment gave these people the right to vote
What is women?
The idea that the USA was destined by a divine power to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans is summed up in this phrase
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Missouri Compromise was a way for both slave holding states and free states to get along. It said that each time a free or slave state was admitted to the Union
What is another opposite would be admitted?
The laws were discriminatory laws in the South that made African Americans second-class citizens
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The Declaration of Independence states that, "All Men Are created..."
What is Equal?
The 16th Amendment was passed in 1913 giving the Federal government the power to tax this
What is income?
This trail led to Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
The Compromise of 1850 threw out the Missouri Compromise. Instead it called for the new state's people to
What is choose to be slave or free?
One way of discriminating against African Americans was to deny them the right to vote. While done in several ways, one famous way was to tax voters for the right to vote. This was known as
What is Poll Tax?
The Judicial Branch reviews the law, while the Executive enforces the law, while Congress
What is makes the law?
Carry Nation was a representative of the Prohibition movement who successfully had alcohol banned in the USA under this amendment
What is the 19th?
This Act along with the uniting of the country with the Intercontinental Railroad brought hundreds of thousands of settlers to the West to farm with the promise of free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This first state to secede from the US was also the one that began the American Civil by firing on Fort Sumter.
What is South Carolina?
The system of economy that evolved in the South after the American Civil War where poor farmers (both white and African American) were held to the large landholders land was known as
What is Sharecropping?