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Benchmark 1 Social Studies Study Guide
Briefly write what each amendment means.
1st Amendment-_____Freedom of religion, press, assembly, petition, and speech______
2nd Amendment-_____The right to bear arms______
3rd Amendment- ______No forced housing of soldiers in your home!______
4th Amendment-___No unreasonable searches or seizures!______
5th Amendment- You don’t have to testify against yourself and you can’t be accurse of the same crime twice!
6th Amendment-______Right to a fast and fairtrial with good representation_
7th Amendment-______Right to a jury trial in a civil cases__
8thAmendment-______No cruel or unusual punishment______
9th Amendment-______Rights not written in the Constitution belong to the People
10th Amendment-______Powers not given to the national government belong to the States or the People_
1. Mallory is sentenced to life in jail for stealing a pen from Wal-Mart. This cannot happen to Mallory because of which amendment? ______Amendment 8______
2. Choosing to attend school to get a higher education would be an example of which amendment? ______Amendment 9______
3. The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the ______Bill of Rights____.
4. Where can the basic rights of all Americans be found? __in the U. S. Constitution______
5. What are your responsibilities as a citizen?
- _ vote______
- __pay taxes______
- __serve on a jury, if called______
- __register for selective service_ 5. ___obey laws______
6. _John Brown______led the raid on Harpers Ferry. Why did he do this? _____To give guns to the slaves
7. __Harriet Beecher Stowe______wrote a book about slavery. This book is called ___Uncle Toms Cabin______.
How did this book influence the tensions between the North and the South? ______
-The North was outraged that people were treated this way______
- The South said it was all lies______
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8. ___Slavery______and states’ rights were the two main causes of the Civil War. States’ Rights is when the__States______have more power than the ______Federal______government.
9. Many slaves escaped because slavery was _____abolished______in the North.
10. The Civil War began at ______Fort Sumter, South Carolina______.
11. Sherman’s _____March____to the ____Sea______is where he and his troops marched from Atlanta to ______Savannah______destroying everything in their path that could help the south win the war.
12. Gettysburg is the __Turning point of the Civil Warplace President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address speech_.
13. General Lee surrendered to General ______Grant______at ______Appomattax Courthouse____
14. Which battle cut all of the supply routes off to the south and ended with Atlanta being burnt?_the Battle of Atlanta
15. The north is also called the ______Union, Yankees, or Yanks______.
16. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina all formed the ___Confederacy or Confederate States of America______. This is another name for the south.
Next to each person’s name, write why they were important or what they were responsible for.
17. Abraham Lincoln- ______16th President of the United States____
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18. William T. Sherman-Leader of the Union troops under General Ulysses S Grant – lead Sherman’s March to the Sea_
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19. Ulysses S. Grant- ______General in command of the Union troops______
______accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse______
20. Robert E. Lee- ______General in command of the Confederate troops______
______Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA______
21. Thomas Stonewall Jackson- ______Leader of the Confederate troops under General Robert E Lee______
______earned nickname at the 1st battle of Bull Run______
22. Jefferson Davis- ______1st and onlyPresident of the Confederacy______
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23. _Jim Crow____ laws enforced separation of African-Americans and whites.
24. Describe sharecropping. ___a system in which the land owner leased the land to several farmers and took a share of the crops
25. __13__Amendment - abolished slavery.
26. __14___ Amendment – Gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
27. __15___ Amendment – Gave all men over the age of 21 the right to vote.
28. The __Freedmen’s Bureau___ provided clothing, food, and education to former slaves.