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Prohibits cruel or unusual punishment and excessive bail or fines

8th ammendment
1st 10 ammendments to the constitution that detail the protection of individual liberties

Bill of Rights
Where were the 1st shots of the Civil War fired?

Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Foreign policy statement by James Monroe stating:
1) The U.S. would not interfere with European affairs
2)

Monroe Doctrine
Practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself wether to allow slavery

Popular Sovereignty
site where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written

Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Civil War was fought from....

1861-1865
Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch

Three Branches of Government
small Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War

Appomattox Court House
Organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton