John O'Sullivan used this phrase to urge Americans to expand to the Pacific.
What is "Manifest Destiny?"
100
She tried to improve conditions in prisons and asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
This branch of government is in charge of carrying out the laws.
What is the executive?
200
This amendment has some people carrying guns everywhere.
What is the second amendment?
200
This was when people switched from growing enough to survive on, to growing crops to sell to make money.
What is the Market Revolution?
200
All the men here died in the fight for Texas's independence.
What is the Alamo?
200
He was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
Who is Joseph Smith?
300
This compromise settled the issue of representation by creating two houses, a House of Representative and a Senate.
What is The Great Compromise?
300
This amendment guarantees you a lawyer.
What is the sixth amendment?
300
His interchangeable parts helped make this revolution possible.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
As President, he pledged to bring California into the Union.
Who is (James) Polk?
300
This movement went against the idea that everything was predetermined and couldn't be changed.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
This compromise settled the question of whether or not slaves would be counted for representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
400
This applies if your city wants to build a highway through your house.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
400
This covered over 325 miles and made New York the commercial capital of the United States.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
He spent a night in jail rather than pay taxes to support a war he thought was for an expansion of slavery.
Who is (Henry David) Thoreau?
400
An escaped slave, he became one of the most eloquent speakers against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
He came up with the idea of "separation of powers."
Who is Montesquieu?
500
If you have something to hide, the police will need this to let them search for it.
What is a warrant?
500
Girls lived in his boarding-houses and worked in his mills.
Who is (Francis) Lowell?
500
This treaty ended the Mexican War and gave the U. S. California and territory now comprising the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
500
This sleepy town in upstate New York was the location of the first women's rights conference in the United States in 1848.