Potpourri Amendments Racism Potent Potables Inventions

Question Practice of building wealth by establishing colonies to serve as both sources of natural resources and markets for finished goods

Answer 1 – 10 Mercantilism

Question Allowing states and territories to decide the issue of slavery for themselves

Answer 1 – 20 Popular Sovereignty

Question Colonial groups created to monitor and report on the activities of the British government in the American Colonies

Answer 1 – 30 Committees of Correspondence

Question The idea that states do not have to enforce federal laws they do not agree with

Answer 1 – 40 Nullification

Question The early policy of the British government in which the Colonies were allowed to govern themselves with little supervision

Answer 1 – 50 Salutary Neglect

Question Ended slavery

Answer 2 – 10 13th

Question Right to bear arms

Answer 2 – 20 2nd

Question All people born in the US are citizens and protected by Constitution

Answer 2 – 30 14th

Question All citizens can vote, regardless of race or color

Answer 2 – 40 15th

Question President and Vice-President are elected together

Answer 2 – 50 12th

Question All Indians must move West of the Mississippi River

Answer 3 – 10 Indian Removal Act

Question No more Chinese immigrants allowed to enter the country; those already here cannot become citizens

Answer 3 – 20 Chinese Exclusion Act

Question Group opposed to carpetbaggers and African- Americans who exercised their new voting privileges

Answer 3 – 30 Ku Klux Klan

Question Practice of hanging individuals as an act of racial terror

Answer 3 – 40 Lynching

Question English speaking white settlers of Texas who disliked being called Mexicans

Answer 3 – 50 Texicans

Question Washington had to put this down to prove the new federal government would act to enforce the law

Answer 4 – 10 Whiskey Rebellion

Question The anti-alcohol movement

Answer 4 – 20 Temperance Movement

Question One of America’s earliest exports Byproduct of the sugar trade Popular with pirates – Yo ho ho!

Answer 4 – 30 Rum

Question Biggest scandal of the Grant administration

Answer 4 – 40 Whiskey Ring

Question Invention that prolonged slavery in the South

Answer 4 – 50 Cotton gin

Question New barrel design that made guns more deadly

Answer 5 – 10 rifling

Question Invention that eliminated the need for grain farmers of the Midwest to use slave labor

Answer 5 – 20 Mechanical reaper

Question Dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot

Answer 5 – 30 Telegraph or Morse Code

Question Railroads needed these to cut down the number of crashes and ensure regular service

Answer 5 – 40 Time zones

Question Brought the Civil War to life for many by showing the horrors of war in newspapers

Answer 5 – 50 camera