Texas and Louisiana
What was the final battle in the Texas War for Independence?
Battle of San Jacinto
Maryland was a Border State. What were the other three?
Missouri, Kentucky and Delaware
This battle had the heaviest casualties in the Civil War.
Gettysburg
The admission of CA as a state was part of this act of Congress.
The Compromise of 1850
The first major battle of the Civil War was here.
Manassas
A clash between Mexican and American troops between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande caused this.
The Mexican War
This was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War.
Antietam
The power of the federal government to enforce federal law within states was established by this 1794 event.
Whiskey Rebellion
This was the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century.
The Transcontinental Railroad
After the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison promoted nullification in these two states.
Virginia and Kentucky (The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions)
The debate over annexation of Texas was part of a larger debate over this.
The expansion of slavery
Maryland was the first state in which President Lincoln suspended this law. The South said this made him a tyrant.
The Writ of Habeas Corpus
What specific right was the subject of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
Suffrage
This was why Brigham Young decided to take the Mormons to Utah.
At the time, it was outside the U.S.
After Bleeding Kansas, John Brown tried to start a slave rebellion here.
Harper's Ferry
Louisiana (along with Arkansas and Texas) was effectively out of the Civil War as a result of this battle.
Vicksburg
In 1844 the first message using this was sent from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.
Telegraph
This formed a waterway that connected NYC to the Great Lakes.
Erie Canal
This was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase
To acquire land for a southern route for the Transcontinental Railroad
The Civil War began in this state.
SC
Why was the Pinckney Treaty important to the U.S. economy?
It gave the U.S. access to the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans.
Territory was cut out of Maryland to create this, part of the deal that got Alexander Hamilton the 1st Bank of the U.S.
Washington D.C.
The NJ Plan was rejected because it was actually little different from this, which everyone knew was already a problem.
The Articles of Confederation
This state is where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.
Utah
The March to the Sea ended here.
Savannah