Bill of Rights |
#1 |
This amendment guarantee rights to a trial by jury |
What is the 7th Amendment? |
#2 |
A change to the Constitution |
What is an amendment? |
#3 |
These are read to inform someone of their 5th amendment rights when they are arrested. |
What are the Miranda Rights? |
#4 |
This amendment protects prisoners from cruel and unusual punishments |
What is the 8th Amendment? |
#5 |
The right to establish a militia in which one can keep and bear arms is part of this amendment |
What is the 2nd Amendment? |
The 1st Amendment |
#1 |
Guarantees the rights of freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly |
What is the 1st Amendment? |
#2 |
This clause states that the government cannot create an official religion or ban religion |
What is the Establishment Clause? |
#3 |
This clause states that the government cannot tell someone how to practice (or not practice) their religion |
What is the Free Exercise Clause? |
#4 |
The government cannot censor the news as a result of this right |
What is the Freedom of the Press? |
#5 |
The only time someone cannot print or broadcast information is if it is one of these two types of lies. |
What are libel or slander? |
Westward Expansion |
#1 |
The belief (in the 1800s) that God wanted white settlers to settle all land reaching to the Pacific Ocean. |
What is Manifest Destiny? |
#2 |
Danger, disease, storms, tornadoes, Native American resistance & distance from cities. |
What are negatives/cons of Westward Expansion? |
#3 |
This parcel of land was purchase for $15 million from France by the U.S.A. (Thomas Jefferson) |
What is the Louisiana Purchase? |
#4 |
This is the forced exile and genocide of Native Americans caused by the Indian Removal Act |
What is the Trail of Tears? |
#5 |
This U.S. President was a hero of the common people, a war hero, an orphan, a murderer, a racist, the father of a Native American son, a slave-owner, a bad-tempered man who liked to hit people with his Old Hickory walking stick, and the inspiration for the logo of the modern Democratic Party. |
Who was Andrew Jackson? |
Causes of the Civil War |
#1 |
This revolution refers to the change from a mostly agrarian (farming) society to a manufacturing society |
What is the Industrial Revolution? |
#2 |
Loyalty to the needs of one group or region in a country, rather than the whole country |
What is sectionalism? |
#3 |
This machine made it easier to process cotton and actually led to Southerners purchasing MORE slaves |
What is the cotton gin? |
#4 |
This made hunting slaves AND free black Americans legal and made it profitable to sell them back into slavery in the South. |
What is the Fugitive Slave Act? |
#5 |
What was the cause of the Civil War? |
What is slavery? |