American Revolution
What is a Loyalist
What branch of government is the president of the United States in?
executive
What president ordered the Indian removal act
Andrew Jackson
Who won the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the General of the Confederacy?
Who was the leader of the continental army
George Washington
How many Senators does each state have
two
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 determined what?
What territories west was to be slave or free
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Territories population votes for their laws.
What was the first engagement of the Civil War
The Attack on Fort Sumter
What was the Stamp Act
Tax on all paper goods
What is the job of congress
to create laws
The War of 1812 was fought between who?
The British and the United States
Why did John Brown raid Harpers Ferry?
There was a federal Arsenal there and he tried to start a slave rebellion
What battle was the turning point of the civil war
Gettysburg
What was the first battle of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
The Judicial branch's job is to do what?
Deem if laws are constitutional
Who was President during the Mexican American War
James K. Polk
Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom
He was taken to a free territory, therefore he's free
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to do what?
Be Free
Enlist in the Army
Work for wages
What battle was the turning point of the American Revolution, and why?
Saratoga. Gained french allies.
Who advises the President of the United States
The Cabinet
What does the word Annexation mean?
to take control over a territory and make it apart of your own
What famous anti-slave book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Why was controlling the Mississippi River Important?
It cut off confederate supplies, weakening the confederacy.