He was a Transcendental writer, he protested the Mexican American War and was arrested for not paying taxes which he believed supported the war.
Who is Henry David Thoreau
100
9th President of the United States aka Old Tippecanoe, died of pneumonia shortly after his inauguration.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
100
Slave who let insurrection in Virginia in 1831. Led 60 in his revolt, which resulted in stricter slave laws in the south.
Who is Nat Turner?
100
General of the Union army, future 18th president
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Civil War strategy to crush the southern rebellion, called for a naval blockade and taking the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
Leader of Texas Independence, defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto to claim independence for Texas.
What is Sam Houston?
200
His debate with senator Stephen Douglas won him very high regard and eventually the Republican nomination for president.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Leader of the Pottawatamie Creek Massacre, led his followers to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia.
What is John Brown?
200
Union army strategy of total war, goal was to break the south's ability to fight by eliminating civilian support. Ended with the capture and burning of Atlanta in 1864.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
200
Farthest and last advance of the confederacy, Lee was defeated. Most decisive battle of the Civil War.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This treaty ended the Mexican American war and gained the northern territory of Mexico for the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
1st president of the Confederate States of America
What is Jefferson Davis?
300
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this enforced northerners to capture escaped slaves and return them to their southern masters. Angered many northerners.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Response to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Led to the creation of the Confederate States of America.
What is Secession?
300
Led to slaves in the south leaving their plantations, increased morale in the North.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Led to California joining the Union as a free state.
What is the Gold Rush?
400
11th president who was the dark horse for the presidency, believer in expansion, got California, led us into the Mexican American War, and introduced an independent treasury system.
What is James K. Polk?
400
This legislation was to organize area west of Missouri and Iowa, called for 2 territories to be created which would then decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Vast in land size, home field advantage, highly qualified generals, motivated to protect their way of life
What is Civil War advantages for the South?
400
Civil War ships protected from cannon fire by iron plates bolted over their wooden sides.
What is ironclads?
500
Suggested that the U.S. should take Cuba from Spain by force, many saw it as a plot to extend slavery.
What is Ostend Manifesto?
500
12th president, Whig, opposed the spread of slavery. Famous general in the Mexican War.
What is Zachary Taylor?
500
Created with the unifying principle that slavery should be banned from all the nation's territories and not permitted to spread further.
What is Republican Party?
500
Conflict that took place in New York over the custom of paying substitutes to take your place in the war.
What is the Draft Riots?
500
The day that John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Lincoln at Fords Theatre