The 8th Amendment (Punishment for Crimes) did this
What is outlawing excessive bail or fines and cruel and unusual punishments
100
The most famous founder of the "Lowell Mills"
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell
100
These were slave codes
What were codes that controlled every aspect of African American's lives
100
They won the Civil War
What is the Union/North
100
Lincoln's assassinator
Who was John Wilkes Booth
200
The 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) did this
What is giving women the right to vote and allowing Congress to enforce this right
200
Many women learned to do this when working at factories
What is read
200
The basis of each of the economies of the North and South
What are the North's factories and the South's plantations
200
The age of the youngest soldier in the Civil War
What is age 11
200
A group created by Congress to help African American "Freedmen"
What was the Freedmen's Bureau
300
The Amendment saying that the rights of the people are not limited to those listed in the Bill of Rights
What is the 9th Amendment
300
Marked the beginning of American industrialization
What is the success of Slater's mill
300
The time that some people in the North started urging that slavery be banned
When was the 1830s
300
All-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight
What is total war
300
New laws used by southern states to control African Americans
What were black codes
400
The rights of citizens protected under the 14th Amendment
What is citizenship and apportionment of representatives
400
Used the very first form of binary code
What are looms
400
Charged the need for slaves
What is the cotton gin
400
An advantage the South had over the North
What was help from locals and familiar territory ("home field advantage"), and superior military officers and tactics.
400
Between 1872 and 1901 this many African Americans served in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is 17
500
The three sections of the 17th Amendment (Popular Election of Senators)
What is method of election, vacancies, and those elected under previous procedure
500
The time when the American Industrial Revolution took place
When were the 1700s
500
In the very beginning of the tensions about slavery, this fueled the South's argument that slavery was more humane than the free labor system of the North
What is the stress of unemployment
500
About how many soldiers, in total, died in the Civil War
What is 620,000 soldiers
500
Segregation, the cycle of poverty, poll taxes, literacy tests, and extreme racism (i.e. white supremacy groups like the KKK)