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100

Which amendment outlawed slavery

13th Amendment

100

Who invented the reaping machine?

Cyrus McCormick

100

Pilgrims landing at New Plymouth

1620

100

Who was the nationally famous Tennessee frontiersman and former congressman who fought at the Alamo?

Davy Crockett

100

The president of the Confederate States?

Jefferson Davis

200

The abolitionist who led a raid at Harper's Ferry was who?

John Brown

200

What year was the California Gold rush?

1849

200

Constitutional Convention

1787

200

Who established a large settlement in Texas?

Stephen Austin

200

Who presented the Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay

300

The most decisive battle

Gettysburg

300
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

Booker T Washington

300

When was the louisiana purchase?

1803

300

End of Civil War

1865

300

The Cherokee forced relocation was called what?

Trail of Tears

300

Who was the Angel of the Battlefield?

Clara Barton

300

What was the first State to secede from the Union

South Carolina

400

Confederate loss of the Mississippi river

Vicksburg

400

Who founded the Five Points Mission as the first settlement house in New York City?

Phoebe Palmer

400

Who is a person who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas?

Entrepreneur

400

Emancipation proclamation

1863

400

The first elected president of the Republic of Texas?

Sam Houston

400

Who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson for the Union?

Ulysses S Grant

400

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

500

The first battle

Fort Sumter

500

Who was the author of the Blue Backed Speller

Noah Webster

500

Who invented the first successful steam boat?

Robert Fulton

500

Treaty of Paris

1783

500

The largest wagon train ever to go West?

Great Migration

500

Commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

Robert E Lee

500

What law divided the former Confederacy into five military districts with military officers to govern them?

Reconstruction Act of 1867

600

The battle where Stonewall Jackson earned his famous nickname

First Bull Run

600

Who is the father of American Missions?

Adoniram judson

600

Missouri Compromise

1820

600

The half-million square miles of land granted to the United states by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Mexican Cession

600
Union General that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta

William Tecumseh Sherman

600

Whose presidency officially ended Reconstruction in the South

Rutherford B Hayes

700
Cleared the way for a Union invasion of Georgia

Chattanooga

700

The public primary school for all children was first promoted by who?

Horace Mann

700

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1842

700

Who negotiated the purchase that completely settled the southern border of the United States?

James Gadsden

700

Union general that led the Peninsula Campaign

George B McClellan

700

Whom did Abraham Lincoln debate during his Illinios senatorial campaign?

Stephen A. Douglas

800

Bloodiest single day

Antietam

800

What was the series of escape routes for slaves escaping the South?

Underground Railroad

800

Treaty of Ghent

1814

800

Defeated the Confederate Army at Gettysburg

George G Meade

800

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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