Hamilton!
The denomination of currency on which Alexander Hamilton is featured
What is the Ten Dollar Bill?
The battle that brought Andrew Jackson into the national spotlight
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
The agreement whereby the USA bought much of the land included in Westward Expansion from the French
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The battle at this South Carolina fort signified the start of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
The President who oversaw the "executive reconstruction" which included pardoning confederate soldiers and officers
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The city where most of Hamilton takes place
What is New York?
This indigenous nation who was most notably affected by the Indian Removal Act
Who are the Cherokee?
A battle cry of the Texas war of independence is to remember the stand off at this fort
What is the Alamo?
The holiday that celebrates the date when enslaved Americans were told of their emancipation in Glaveston, Texas
What is Juneteenth?
While technically not during reconstruction, this group is largely responsible for many civil war monuments and textbook laws.
Who are the United Daughters of the Confederacy?
The election in which Thomas Jefferson "won in a landslide"... after 35 ties
What is the Election of 1800?
This territory that gained independence, became a nation, and then a state
What is Texas?
This physical landmark where Zachary Taylor and his troops were ordered to patrol in order to draw Mexico into a violent altercation
What is the Rio Grande?
The term for the loose conglomeration of states that the south claimed as the name for their nation
What is a confederacy?
The compromise that ultimately brought about the "end" of reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A series of essays that defended the constitution to the public, where Hamilton wrote 51 of them
What are the Federalist Papers?
This alliterative term for the removal of indigenous people
What is the Trail of Tears?
An act that created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union General who later was the 18th president of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The term for northerners who came down to the South to take advantage of the chaos post war.
What are Carpet Baggers?
The cabinet position in which Alexander Hamilton served
What is Secretary of Treasury?
The main instrument with which Andrew Jackson defended himself from Richard Lawrence
What is a cane?
The two word term for the idea that the United States ought stretch from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Union General who famously led a "march to the sea" and reintroduced the concept of Total War
Who is William T. Sherman?
The government organization set up to "provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans."
What is the Freedmans Bureau?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The party with which Aaron Burr ran for president in the election of 1800
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
The territory (and later state) that Andrew Jackson invaded as a General, in direct violation of the constitution, in order to fight the Spanish
What is Florida?
This territory that was originally given as Indigenous land after the trail of tears
What is Oklahoma?
The site of the bloodiest battle in the civil war and now a cemetery where Lincoln gave a speech beginning "Four score and seven years ago.."
What is Gettysburg?
The term for the first historical viewpoint, that has been discredited, that called reconstruction a failure
What is the Dunning School?
The concession made by the Federalists (Hamilton) in return for consolidation of National Debt during The Room Where It Happens
What is the location of the Capital?
What Jackson believed should be the backbone of the United States Economy
What are small independent farms?
This period, meaning before the war, where most westward expansion took place
What is the Antebellum Period?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
The term for an escaped formerly enslaved person who fought in the Union Army
What are contrabands?
The order that granted formerly enslaved folks 40 acres of tillable land
What is Sherman's Field Order 15?
The cabinet position in which Thomas Jefferson served
What is Secretary of State?
The term applied to Jackson that means a politician who strives to appeal to "the everyman"
What is a populist?
A period of violent political strife where one state determined if it would be a free state of a slave state
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The vice president who ran with Lincoln during the election of 1864
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The amendment that was ratified during Reconstruction that ended slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
The battle that ended the Civil War where, according to Hamilton, the British soldiers sang The World Turned Upside Down
What is Yorktown?
The treaty that ended the Mexican American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This nickname for Oklahoma University teams comes from the nickname for those who settled Oklahoma
What are sooners?
The president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The black sociologist, socialist, historian, and civil rights activist who wrote Black Reconstruction
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The spy who worked as a Tailor for the British Military
Who is Hercules Mulligan?
This man who was Michigan's first governor and the "Architect of Indian Removal"
Who is Lewis Cass?
This compromise that prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel except for the state for which the compromise was named.
What is the Missiouri Compromise?
The site where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching Our American Cousin
What is Ford's Theater?
The man who became president as a result of the election of 1876, and as a result ended reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?