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Herstory
100
George(Number One) Washington, John(sedition) Adams, Thomas (The Man) Jefferson,Jemmy (The Little Man) Madison, James (Hands off Latin America) Monroe, John Quincy(The Son) Adams, Andrew (talk about my wife and I'll shoot you) Jackson
Who were the first seven presidents of The United States?
100
"Mill Times" showed the building of factories, such as Samuel Slater's textile mill in New England. The building of many factories, using the swift New England river waters sparked this "revolution.
What is The First Industrial Revolution
100
The unofficial policy of giving jobs to political supporters.
What is The Spoils System?
100
Name of the country into which American settlers, led by Stephen Austin, were invited to settle to populate the land. They had only to obey the laws, become citizens of that country and become Catholic.
What is Mexico?
100
Called "Moses of Her People". She made 19 trips south to rescue slaves, spoke out against slavery and served in the Union army as a scout.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
To obey laws, pay taxes, serve in the armed forces if called, serve on a jury if called, serve as a witness in court if called.
What are the responsibilities of a good citizen?
200
He first showed how making interchangable parts on pistols could make manufactured goods cheaper and easier to make and fix.
Who is Samuel Colt?
200
Despite a Supreme Court Ruling in their favor in 1832, The Cherokee Indians were forced to relocate to Oklahoma. The deadly trip is know as this.
What is "The Trail of Tears"
200
The leader who tried to stop more Americans from settling, causing Texas to fight for independence in 1836.
Who is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
200
She was born a slave in New York and became a powerful speaker for both abolition and womens' rights
Who is Soujourner Truth?
300
The system, named after the country which enacted it, urged tariffs on imported goods so businesses could develop within the young country. Supported by both Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.
What is The American System?
300
Water wheels used to operate looms in factories were eventually replaced with a "hot" new system which proved to be faster and more efficient.
What is the steam engine?
300
Jackson felt this bank gave too much power and money to rich easterners. When its charter came up for renewal, he "killed" it.
What is The Second Bank of The United States?
300
The famous mission where Texans held out, and then were slaughtered by the Mexican army in San Antonio in 1836.
What is The Alamo?
300
An early suffragist, she called for the first Womens' Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. She is the first American woman to appear on a U.S. coin.
What is Susan B. Anthony
400
The two transportation improvements, one a road west, the other a New York canal improved transportation of goods and people into the American wilderness and products back east.
What are The National Road and The Erie Canal?
400
Sadly, what was invented to make the jobs of slaves easier on cotton farms led to an explosion in the numbers of slaves needed. Name the inventor and the invention.
Who is- Eli Whitney, What is- The Cotton Gin?
400
The 1830 act passed by Congress after being suggested by the president ordered the removal of many tribes in the Southeast U.S. to be relocated.
What is The Indian Removal Act?
400
American leader of Texas troops whose victory at San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston
400
Her diary of Southern politics and Southern life during the Civil War is still used by historians to better understand the conflict.
Who is Mary Chesnut?
500
Robert Fulton invented it to aid river, lake and ocean transportation in 1807.
What is the steamboat?
500
The settlement in congress, engineered by Henry Clay, in which Missouri entered the Union as a slave state in 1820, Maine as a free state, and 36'30" marked where future slavery could and could not exist.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
500
The belief that The United States of America was destined to stretch from "Sea to Shining Sea" .
What is manifest destiny?
500
Name of the religious group that settled Salt Lake City in 1847. Led by Brigham Young.
Who are the Mormans?
500
Her book, "Unle Tom's Cabin", in 1852, is considered one of the causes of the Civil War. Her views on slavery expressed in the book were praised by many in the North. She was condemned equally in the South.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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