Compromise
1820 Compromise that admitted Missouri to the Union and Maine to the Union as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of the 36 30 parallel
The Missouri Compromiser
War by which the U.S. achieved independence from Great Britain
The American Revolution
He led the March on Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.
President known as "Old Hickory" known for his Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, and The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Andrew Jackson
State where the Gold Rush started with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in January 1948
California
Henry Clay
War during which the British burned down the White House and the Capitol Building
War of 1812
19th Amendment (1920)
President who ran on a campaign that included a call to repeal Prohibition
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
State where the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place
Illinois
Compromise comprised of five laws, one of which was the admission to CA as a free state, and another was the passage of The Fugitive Slave Act
The Compromise of 1850
America's First Overseas War
First Barbary War (1801-1805)
Constitutional Amendment that abolished Slavery
13th Amendment
He became President after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901
Theodore Roosevelt
Last of the 50 states admitted to the Union on August 21,1959
A failed compromise proposed by a Kentucky Senator who called for the extension of the 36 30 (Missouri Compromise Line) to the Pacific
The Crittenden Compromise
War that the U.S. entered in 1917 based on a declaration of war from Congress to Woodrow Wilson
World War I
Constitutional Amendment that provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators
The 17th Amendment
He became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
State where Andrew Jackson's estate called "The Hermitage" is located
Tennessee
Andrew Jackson
War in which Teddy Roosevelt became famous for leading his "Rough Riders" in the Battle of San Juan Hill
The Spanish-American War
Name of the law that ended the Nullification Crisis
The Compromise Tariff or the Compromise of 1833
President who famously said "Read my lips: no new taxes" at the Republican National Convention in 1988
George H.W. Bush
State where the Comstock Lode started in June 1859
Nevada