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This amendment guarantee rights to a trial by jury
This amendment guarantee rights to a trial by jury
What is the 7th Amendment?
A change to the Constitution
A change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
These are read to inform someone of their 5th amendment rights when they are arrested.
These are read to inform someone of their 5th amendment rights when they are arrested.
What are the Miranda Rights?
This amendment protects prisoners from cruel and unusual punishments
This amendment protects prisoners from cruel and unusual punishments
What is the 8th Amendment?
The right to establish a militia in which one can keep and bear arms is part of this amendment
The right to establish a militia in which one can keep and bear arms is part of this amendment
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Guarantees the rights of freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly
Guarantees the rights of freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly
What is the 1st Amendment?
This clause states that the government cannot create an official religion or ban religion
This clause states that the government cannot create an official religion or ban religion
What is the Establishment Clause?
This clause states that the government cannot tell someone how to practice (or not practice) their religion
This clause states that the government cannot tell someone how to practice (or not practice) their religion
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
The government cannot censor the news as a result of this right
The government cannot censor the news as a result of this right
What is the Freedom of the Press?
The only time someone cannot print or broadcast information is if it is one of these two types of lies.
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?
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Amendments protect citizens from this.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Amendments protect citizens from this.
What is tyranny?
To be tried for the same crime twice (not allowed by the 5th Amendment)
To be tried for the same crime twice (not allowed by the 5th Amendment)
What is Double Jeopardy?
A good reason (reasonable suspicion) that police have about a person that allows them to be searched.
A good reason (reasonable suspicion) that police have about a person that allows them to be searched.
What is probable cause?
This is like a permission slip granted by a judge that allows police to search a specific location for a specific item.
This is like a permission slip granted by a judge that allows police to search a specific location for a specific item.
What is a warrant?
These "magic words" assert your 4th Amendment rights while also informing an officer that you won't resist his or her lawful actions.
These "magic words" assert your 4th Amendment rights while also informing an officer that you won't resist his or her lawful actions.
What is "I don't consent to searches"?
The belief (in the 1800s) that God wanted white settlers to settle all land reaching to the Pacific Ocean.
The belief (in the 1800s) that God wanted white settlers to settle all land reaching to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Danger, disease, storms, tornadoes, Native American resistance & distance from cities.
Danger, disease, storms, tornadoes, Native American resistance & distance from cities.
What are negatives/cons of Westward Expansion?
This parcel of land was purchase for $15 million from France by the U.S.A. (Thomas Jefferson)
This parcel of land was purchase for $15 million from France by the U.S.A. (Thomas Jefferson)
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the forced exile and genocide of Native Americans caused by the Indian Removal Act
This is the forced exile and genocide of Native Americans caused by the Indian Removal Act
What is the Trail of Tears?
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.
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?
This revolution refers to the change from a mostly agrarian (farming) society to a manufacturing society
This revolution refers to the change from a mostly agrarian (farming) society to a manufacturing society
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Loyalty to the needs of one group or region in a country, rather than the whole country
Loyalty to the needs of one group or region in a country, rather than the whole country
What is sectionalism?
This machine made it easier to process cotton and actually led to Southerners purchasing MORE slaves
This machine made it easier to process cotton and actually led to Southerners purchasing MORE slaves
What is the cotton gin?
This made hunting slaves AND free black Americans legal and made it profitable to sell them back into slavery in the South.
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?
What was the cause of the Civil War?
What was the cause of the Civil War?
What is slavery?
A metaphor used in a speech by Abraham Lincoln prior to the Civil War to describe the possible future of the country.
A metaphor used in a speech by Abraham Lincoln prior to the Civil War to describe the possible future of the country.
What is "a house divided against itself cannot stand"?
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