Lesson 1

Question 1

Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and had no rights to sue _____

Answer 1

Scott v. Sandford

Question 2

Elected unanimously; did not believe in political parties. ________

Answer 2

George Washington

Question 3

Signed the treaty at Appomattox that ended the civil war

Answer 3

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 4

Wrote the Federalist Papers, sophisticated explanation of the American political system.

Answer 4

John Jay

Question 5

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

First president to be impeached

Answer 6

Andrew Johnson

Question 7

Signed the Indian Removal Act, called the Trail of Tears

Answer 7

Andrew Jackson

Question 8

A conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Answer 8

Harriet Tubman

Question 9

Gave the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the south under union control

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln

Question 10

A delegate at the Second Continental Conngress and signed the Declaration of Independence

Answer 10

John Hancock

Question 11

What are two reasons Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of independence from Great Britain?

Answer 11

Inalienable rights and right to change or overthrow a government that doesn’t serve the best interest of its citizens

Question 12

Why are the Bill of Rights important to American citizens?

Answer 12

Include “to protect people from the government” as well as other information you come up with

Question 13

Describe the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.

Answer 13

slavery, citizenship, right to vote

Question 14

Compromise of 1877

Answer 14

rep pres, dem help

Question 15

What started the Civil War in 1861

Answer 15

attack on fort sumter

Question 16

president during bill of rights

Answer 16

washington

Question 17

addressed slaveryy in the 1950s

Answer 17

compromise of 1850