War of 1812
This is the country the United States fought in the War of 1812.
What is the United Kingdom (England)?
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Secret organization of American patriots which originated in the pre-independence British North American colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The largest land acquisition from France during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency (1803), doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A person who is strongly opposed to slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This country was engaged in a war with the United Kingdom when the War of 1812 began.
What is France?
He was a General in the Confederate Army and he surrendered on April 9, 1865 to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, he is generally recognized as one of the most important figures in all of U.S. history. He also is called Father of his Country.
Who is George Washington?
The expedition from 1804-1806 that gathered information about the land gained by the Louisiana Purchase and sought an overland route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
System of sheltering and aiding runaway slaves on their northward journey to free territory in the decades before the Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?
He was the President of the United States during the War of 1812.
Who was James Madison?
This is where the first shot of the Civil War was fired.
What was Fort Sumter?
Document proclaiming the independence of the 13 British colonies in America, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The discovery at Sutter's Mill increased the population of 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 in 1850. It was also famous for encouraging the construction of wagons, roads and railroads going west.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Escaped slave, one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad; risked her life on 19 journeys back to Maryland to help more than 300 slaves to freedom; called “Black Moses.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Francis Scott Key wrote this song after seeing the Battle of Fort McHenry.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
This is the city General Sherman burned down on his March to the Sea.
What is Atlanta?
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Known for "The Shot Heard Around The World."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Products could be moved more cheaply and much faster by this new method of land transportation in the 1830's.
What is the steam locomotive?
A leader in the campaign for votes for women. In 1848 she organized America's first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
During the War of 1812, Dolley Madison saved a portrait of this former President before the British invaded the White House.
Who was George Washington?
The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Slogan in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
The fort in San Antonio, Texas, which was the site of a Mexican victory over supporters of Texan independence in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
Wrote “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851 to the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.
Who is Sojourner Truth?