He advocated compulsory, public financed grade school as a means of inculcating republican virtues.
What is Horace Mann?
100
Polk used brinksmanship to settle the conflict with Britain over Oregon territory at this latitude.
What is the 49th parallel?
100
This William Lloyd Garrison production advocated immediatism.
What is The Liberator?
100
This battle is considered to be a turning point because a strategic victory allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and inhibited Britain from allying with the South.
What is Antietam?
100
This was the profession of John Wilkes Booth.
What is Actor
200
These nativists fought against Irish and Catholic immigrants in the 1840s.
What is the Know-Nothings?
200
As a young Congressman, Lincoln introduced this resolution asking Polk to show where American blood had been spilled on American soil.
What is the Spot Resolution?
200
Having violated the honor of a Southerner, this senator from Maine was caned on the floor of the Senate.
What is Charles Sumner?
200
This battle finally secured control of the Mississippi for the Union effectively cutting the deep South off from the rest of the Confederacy.
What is Vicksburg?
200
He popularized an exciting style of facial hair even though he was delayed in taking the lower bridge at antietam.
What is Burnsides?
300
This convention advocated legal, economic and social rights for women, producing a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
This treaty ended the war with Mexico on terms favorable to the US--including Texas to the Rio Grande and California.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
He sought to ignite a slave uprising with an attack on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
What is John Brown?
300
This plan to blockade Southern ports and strangle trade was ultimately too passive to bring the South back into the Union.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
This ugly Massachusetts general conceived of escaped slaves as contrabands of war.
What is Benjamin "the beast" Butler?
400
She advocated for better conditions for the mentally ill.
What is Dorothea Dix?
400
This southwestern sliver was purchased from Mexico in anticipation of a Southwestern transcontinental railway route.
What is the Gasden Purchase?
400
This book generated sympathy for slaves on the part of Northerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
These peace democrats gave the Confederacy hope for a favorable resolution to their cause.
What is the Copperheads?
400
She conceived of the American Red Cross after her experience with Civil War nursing?
What is Clara Barton?
500
This reform group sought to end slavery by repatriating former slaves to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
500
They were swashbuckling military men like William Walker who tried to gain territory in places like Nicaragua.
What is filibusters?
500
This concept--allowing states to decide the slavery issue themselves--backfired by allowing conflict over slavery to rage in the territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This Union General ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864.
What is McClellan?
500
This little giant of the democratic party debated lincoln for the Illinois senate in 1858