States
People
Technology
Disagreement
Government
100
This state would have shifted the balance of power if admitted in 1819. A compromise was reached allowing entry along with a free state.
What is Missouri
100
Commander of the Continental Army and 1st president of the US
who is George Washington
100
This was invented by Samuel Morse
What is the telegraph
100
This is a northerner with southern sympathy
What is a doughboy
100
This is the leader of the Executive Branch
What is the president
200
This state was admitted as a free state in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine
200
This Union General was brought in after having resigned his post for drinking
Who is U.S. Grant
200
This changed the accuracy of a shot in the Civil War
What is the rifle
200
This territory was split in half, free and slave until entered to the union as a free state
What is California
200
This is based on state populations
What is the House of Representative
300
This state was home to President Franklin Pierce.
What is New Hampshire
300
This commander of the Confederate Army choose to side with the south because his state choose to secede.
Who is Robert E Lee
300
He brought the technology of the steam engine to the US, and improved it
Who is Robert Fulton
300
The international incident saw the French looking for bribes to allow American diplomats to see the French Prime Minister
What is the XYZ Affair
300
Each state has two of these under the legislative branch
What is senators
400
This state was the location of Fort Sumter and the first shots of the Civil War
What is South Carolina
400
This man was the leader of the Federalist party and wrote the most entries under what is known as the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton
400
These were maintained privately and you had to pay to use them
What is turnpikes
400
This was our first international war as a nation
What is the war of 1812
400
Some of our language in the Bill of Rights borrows from this document this includes the law of the land and jury of ones peers
What is magna carta
500
This state was a border state, that is a former slave state that stayed with the Union during the civil War
What is Missouri
500
He wrote the Constitution
Who is James Madison
500
This man invented the printing press in Germany and changed the course of history
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
500
"Freesoilers" and pro slavery folks flooded into territories which congress agreed to disavow the Mason Dixon Line and allow for this.
What is Popular Sovereignty
500
This is an addition to a document
What is an amendment
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