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The founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
The first shots of the Civil War were famously fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter (Charleston, South Carolina)?
In 1832, President Jackson led a campaign to "kill" this institution, a goal in which he would ultimately succeed.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
This man said "Mr. Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it".
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Seneca Falls Convention.
What is 1848?
These 2 women organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Zachary Taylor marched his troops to the border of this famous river in the lead-up to the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande?
The signing of this treaty ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This former President, addressing Congress in 1846, said that "Mexico... has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil... War exists... by the act of Mexico herself".
Who is James K. Polk?
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
What is 1865?
This man was Lincoln's Secretary of War for most of the Civil War, and he famously uttered "Now he belongs to the ages" when hearing of Lincoln's death.
Who is Edwin M. Stanton?
The forced removal of the Cherokees from this state began what we know today as the "Trail of Tears"
What is Georgia?
The phrase that John Wilkes Booth exclaimed upon firing the shot that killed Abraham Lincoln"
What is Sic Semper Tyrannus!"?
This man famously uttered "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country... I say, let it be done".
Who is John Brown?
The Mexican American War begins.
What is 1846?
Led a famous slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 before being captured and put to death.
Who is Nat Turner?
This is the home state of Senator Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser.
What is Kentucky?
Painter Thomas Cole founded this "school" as he travelled upriver in 1825.
What is the Hudson River School?
This Senator from Massachusetts gave a famous speech on the floor of the Senate in 1828, calling for "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
Who is Daniel Webster?
The Battle of Antietam.
What is 1863?
The treaty ending the Civil War was signed in this man's home.
Who is Wilmer McClean?
Charles G. Finney helped to start the Revival movement in upstate New York, in an area which came to be known as "this".
What is the "Burned-Over District"?
In 1852, this man wrote that black people "had nor rights which a white man was bound to respect" in the famous Dred Scott decision.
Who is Chief Justice Roger Taney?
This man said "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
What is 1851-52?