Manifest Destiny
A Spanish word signifying a town or village
What is pueblo?
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected president
What is 1860?
People heading west between 1848 - 1849 participated in this
What is the Gold Rush?
The term used to describe the forced removal of the natives west
What is the trail of tears?
First President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
The idea that the United States was divinely ordained to expand from sea to sea
What is Manifest Destiny?
She escaped slavery only to return to assist others from the horrors of slavery
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The year California joined our Union
What is 1850?
A tax placed on foreign made goods to increase their sales price on the market
What is a tariff?
The third President and the first Secretary of State
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Leader of Mexico during the Texas Revolution
Who is Santa Anna?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Many immigrants from Ireland were this religion
What are Catholic?
The inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
Leader of the southern military during the Civil War
Who was General Lee?
Leader of Texas during and before the Texas Revolution
Who is Stephen Austin?
This became the antislavery political party
Who are the Republicans?
The capital of Virginia and later the South during the Civil War
What is Richmond?
These were the main Indians from Florida
Who are the Seminoles?
President of the South during the Civil War
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This Spanish Friar worked to evangelize natives in the 18th century
Who is Fray Junipero Serra?
He debated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate seat in Illinois
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Refusal of workers to work in an effort to make employers give in to their demands
What is a strike?
This philosophy warned European powers to stay out of our hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Violent abolitionist who was executed by the south prior to the Civil War
Who is John Brown?