People
Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What nation sent troops to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War?
France
What state did the Gold Rush of 1849 occur in?
California
What did President Lincoln issue in 1863 stating that all enslaved people in the rebel states are free?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What group of people did the Americans fight against during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812?
The British
What famous general was elected president in 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
In what war did the United States gain control of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah?
The Mexican-American War
What state did General Sherman's army burn relentlessly during their March to the Sea?
Georgia
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
What group of people was the Freedman's Bureau created to help after the Civil War?
Black Americans
Who was the top Confederate general for most of the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
What former Confederate state was the only one not to be occupied by federal troops during Reconstruction?
Tennessee
What part of the Constitution guarantees Americans freedoms such as speech, press, religion, and to own weapons?
The Bill of Rights
What group of slaveholding states chose to stay loyal to the United States and not secede from the union?
The Border States
What extreme abolitionist attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry to try to start a slave rebellion?
John Brown
What country did the U.S. Army invade in the War of 1812 but get pushed out of?
Canada
What state joined the United States in 1820 as a free state to keep the balance between slave and free states?
Maine
What 1850 law made it mandatory for Northerners to help recapture escaped slaves in the North?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What group specifically wanted to punish the South and protect Black Americans after the Civil War?
Radical Republicans
What famous general turned president founded the Democratic Party in 1828?
Andrew Jackson
Where did the outnumbered American settlers in Texas famously make a last stand against the Mexican Army during the Texas Revolution?
The Alamo
What state were most of the eastern Native Americans forcibly relocated to during the Trail of Tears?
Oklahoma
What was the nation's first code of laws for government before the Constitution called?
The Articles of Confederation
What early American political party was led by Alexander Hamilton?
The Federalist Party