American Religion
These English religious dissenters founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, envisioned as a utopian "city upon a hill"
The Puritans
This document issued on January 1st 1863 declared enslaved people in rebelling states to be free
The Emancipation Proclamation
This president who beat his attempted assassin with a cane was our first Democrat in office
Andrew Jackson
This small homestead in coal country was the birthplace of Henry Clay Frick
This French ruler sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803, partly because he needed money for war in Europe and had lost interest in rebuilding a French empire in North America
Napoleon Bonaparte
This American branch of Anglicanism emerged after the Revolution after breaking ties with the Church of England
Episcopalianism
This friend of U.S. Grant led the "March to the Sea", often cited as the start of "total war"
William Tecumseh Sherman
This protege of Teddy Roosevelt was the only president who also served on the Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Founded by John D. Rockefeller, this oil company became the most famous monopoly of the Gilded Age before being broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911
Standard Oil
This 19th-century belief held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand westward across the continent
Manifest Destiny
This Southern California city, home to a large Seventh-day Adventist community is America's only "Blue Zone"
Loma Linda
This Confederate fortress city was captured by the Union on July 4th, 1863, one day after the end of the Battle of Gettysburg
Vicksburg
This annexer of Texas was the only former U.S. President to serve in the Confederate government
John Tyler
The positive AND negative terms used for powerful industrialists who became incredibly wealthy during the Gilded Age
Captains of Industry / Robber Barons
This folk hero was killed in Deadwood, South Dakota, by Jack McCall while allegedly holding the “dead man’s hand” of aces and eights
Wild Bill Hickok
This Illinois settlement, the second most populated city in the state at the time, became the center of Mormonism in the 1840s before the Saints moved west
Nauvoo
This play, specifically its line about a "sockdologizing mantrap", was the last thing Lincoln heard before being shot in Ford's Theater
My American Cousin
This eccentric was the first U.S. Presidential Candidate to be assassinated
Joseph Smith
In this 1889 essay, Andrew Carnegie argued that the rich had a moral duty to use their fortunes for the public good
The Gospel of Wealth
This Lakota war leader was key in defeating Custer at Little Bighorn, and is now the subject of a massive unfinished monument in South Dakota
Crazy Horse
This 1850s nativist political movement, formally called the American Party, opposed Catholic immigration and nominated former president Millard Fillmore for president in 1856
The Know-Nothings
This 1862 incident in Pittsburgh killed 78 workers, mostly women and girls, and is called the worst civilian accident of the Civil War
Allegheny Arsenal explosion
This president had a cat named "Satan"
John Adams
This New York City political machine, led by Boss Tweed, became notorious for corruption and mobilizing immigrant voters
Tammany Hall
This Newfoundland dog accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific
Seaman